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Numbers 32:21

in Numbers 32

and if every one of your armed men crosses the Jordan before the LORD, until He has driven His enemies out before Him,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before Jehovah, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,

KJV

And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the Lord, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,

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This verse in Numbers 32

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

If you will do this

on Numbers 32:20-22

Moses sets a chain of conditions, each one set "before the LORD". To "be free of obligation to the LORD and to Israel" is the language of a debt discharged. The land is theirs only once subdued.

This site's exposition

until He has driven His enemies out before Him

Matthew Henry reads before the LORD as before the ark, noting that these two tribes marched immediately in front of it in chapter 2. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown allow a wider sense. The enemies driven out are called His enemies.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

It is God's cause more than your brethren's, and to him you must have an eye, and not to them only." Before the Lord, that is, before the ark of the Lord, the token of his presence, which, it should seem, they carried about with them in the wars of Canaan, and immediately before which these two tribes were posted, as we find in the order of their march, ch. ii.

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A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

Jazer - A city and country of the Amorites; Gilead - A mountainous country, famous for pasturage 6. Ye sit here - In ease and peace, while your brethren are engaged in a bloody war.
And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the Lord,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Perhaps, however, the phrase is used merely in a general sense to denote their marching on an expedition, the purpose of which was blessed with the presence, and destined to promote the glory, of God.

The words behind it

13 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְעָבַ֨רand he will pass over

    veavarH5674 →556 times

  • לָכֶ֧םof you

    lakhem

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • חָל֛וּץequipped [man]

    chalutzH2502 →44 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַיַּרְדֵּ֖ןthe Jordan

    haiyardenH3383 →182 times

  • לִפְנֵ֣י<to> before

    lifneiH6440 →2123 times

  • יְהוָ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • עַ֧דuntil

    ʾadH5704 →1261 times

  • הוֹרִישׁ֛וֹhas dispossessed he

    horishoH3423 →231 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • אֹיְבָ֖יוenemies his

    ʾoyevavH341 →282 times

  • מִפָּנָֽיו׃from before him

    mipanavH6440 →2123 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 32 →

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Calvin, Commentary on the Four Last Books of Moses Arranged in the Form of a Harmony; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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