Numbers 32:26
in Numbers 32Our children, our wives, our livestock, and all our animals will remain here in the cities of Gilead.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead;
KJV
Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead:
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This verse in Numbers 32
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Your servants will do just as our lord
on Numbers 32:25-27
The Hebrew verb behind their answer is singular. John Gill reads it as the two tribes speaking with one voice or through one spokesman.
This site's exposition
Our children, our wives, our livestock
The tribes now name their families before their flocks, the order Moses gave at verse 24 rather than their own order at verse 16. John Gill takes the cities of Gilead as the towns listed at verse 3. Gill says they meant to repair and fortify them.
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.
Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle,.... Their families, and their substance: shall be there in the cities of Gilead; such as are before mentioned, Num 32:3 and which they proposed to repair and fortify, to preserve their families and possessions from the Amorites about them.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| טַפֵּ֣נוּ | tapenu | little one[s] our | H2945 → | 42 times |
| נָשֵׁ֔ינוּ | nasheinu | wives our | H802 → | 781 times |
| מִקְנֵ֖נוּ | miknenu | livestock our | H4735 → | 76 times |
| וְכָל־ | vekhol | and all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| בְּהֶמְתֵּ֑נוּ | behemtenu | cattle our | H929 → | 190 times |
| יִֽהְיוּ־ | yihyu- | they will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| שָׁ֖ם | sham | there | H8033 → | 834 times |
| בְּעָרֵ֥י | bearei | in [the] cities of | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| הַגִּלְעָֽד׃ | hagilad | <the> Gilead | H1568 → | 134 times |
טַפֵּ֣נוּlittle one[s] our
tapenuH2945 →42 times
נָשֵׁ֔ינוּwives our
nasheinuH802 →781 times
מִקְנֵ֖נוּlivestock our
miknenuH4735 →76 times
וְכָל־and all
vekholH3605 →5413 times
בְּהֶמְתֵּ֑נוּcattle our
behemtenuH929 →190 times
יִֽהְיוּ־they will be
yihyu-H1961 →3559 times
שָׁ֖םthere
shamH8033 →834 times
בְּעָרֵ֥יin [the] cities of
beareiH5892 →1090 times
הַגִּלְעָֽד׃<the> Gilead
hagiladH1568 →134 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
3 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
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it leads to
- Exodus 13:18
So God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the Israelites left the land of Egypt arrayed for battle.
- Deuteronomy 20:8
Then the officers shall speak further to the army, saying, “Is any man afraid or fainthearted? Let him return home, so that the hearts of his brothers will not melt like his own.”
- Revelation 17:4
The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls. She held in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual…
- Exodus 13:18
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; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.