Numbers 32:24
in Numbers 32Build cities for your little ones and folds for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”
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ASV
Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
KJV
Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
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This verse in Numbers 32
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Build cities for your little ones
The closing charge, "do what you have promised", echoes the vow law of Numbers 30:2, "he must do everything he has promised". Their word binds them as a vow.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
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.
Build ye cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep,.... For their safety and security, as they proposed to do: and do that which proceedeth out of your mouth; all that they had promised.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
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
9 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּנֽוּ־ | benu- | build | H1129 → | 376 times |
| לָכֶ֤ם | lakhem | for <the> yourselves | ||
| עָרִים֙ | ʾarim | cities | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| לְטַפְּכֶ֔ם | letapekhem | for little one[s] your | H2945 → | 42 times |
| וּגְדֵרֹ֖ת | ugederot | and folds | H1448 → | 9 times |
| לְצֹנַאֲכֶ֑ם | letzonaakhem | for sheep your | H6792 → | |
| וְהַיֹּצֵ֥א | vehaiyotze' | and the [thing which] has gone out | H3318 → | 1067 times |
| מִפִּיכֶ֖ם | mipikhem | from mouth your | H6310 → | 498 times |
| תַּעֲשֽׂוּ׃ | taasu | you will do | H6213 → | 2628 times |
בְּנֽוּ־build
benu-H1129 →376 times
לָכֶ֤םfor <the> yourselves
lakhem
עָרִים֙cities
ʾarimH5892 →1090 times
לְטַפְּכֶ֔םfor little one[s] your
letapekhemH2945 →42 times
וּגְדֵרֹ֖תand folds
ugederotH1448 →9 times
לְצֹנַאֲכֶ֑םfor sheep your
letzonaakhemH6792 →
וְהַיֹּצֵ֥אand the [thing which] has gone out
vehaiyotze'H3318 →1067 times
מִפִּיכֶ֖םfrom mouth your
mipikhemH6310 →498 times
תַּעֲשֽׂוּ׃you will do
taasuH6213 →2628 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
7 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Numbers 30:2If a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word; he must do everything he has promised.
it leads to
- Psalms 50:14
Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.
- Psalms 116:14
I will fulfill my vows to the LORD in the presence of all His people.
- Ecclesiastes 5:4–5
When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, because He takes no pleasure in fools. Fulfill your vow.
- Job 22:27
You will pray to Him, and He will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows.
- Acts 23:12
When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.
- Psalms 50:14
Through
Numbers 32:16Then the Gadites and Reubenites approached Moses and said, “We want to build sheepfolds here for our livestock and cities for our little ones.
it leads to
- Genesis 33:17
but Jacob went on to Succoth, where he built a house for himself and shelters for his livestock; that is why the place was called Succoth.
- Numbers 34:22
Bukki son of Jogli, a leader from the tribe of Dan;
- Genesis 33:17
Where this verse is studied
About Numbers
This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; 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.