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Numbers 32:31

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The Gadites and Reubenites replied, “As the LORD has spoken to your servants, so we will do.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As Jehovah hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.

KJV

And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the Lord hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.

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This verse in Numbers 32

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered,...., The word is in the singular number, and shows their unanimity, that they agreed to what Moses said, and replied all of them as one man, as Jarchi expresses it; and it may be there was one that was the mouth of them all, and answered for them: saying, as the Lord hath said unto thy servants, so will we do; here they make use of the word Jehovah, taking what Moses had said unto them as from the Lord, and therefore should strictly and punctually observe it, as if they heard the Lord himself speak it.

This site's exposition

As the LORD has spoken to your servants

on Numbers 32:31-32

Their final answer names the LORD where their earlier answer named Moses. John Gill reads the change as their receiving the terms from Moses as terms from God himself.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

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.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

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.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

The pastoral country the two tribes had desired was to be granted them on condition that they would lend their aid to their brethren in the approaching invasion of Canaan. If they refused or failed to perform their promise, those possessions should be forfeited, and they themselves compelled to go across the Jordan and fight for a settlement like the rest of their brethren.

The words behind it

14 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.

  • וַיַּֽעֲנ֧וּand they answered

    vaiyaanuH6030 →331 times

  • בְנֵי־[the] descendants of

    venei-H1121 →4930 times

  • גָ֛דGad

    gadH1410 →72 times

  • וּבְנֵ֥יand [the] descendants of

    uveneiH1121 →4930 times

  • רְאוּבֵ֖ןReuben

    reuvenH7205 →72 times

  • לֵאמֹ֑ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • אֵת֩<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֨ר[that] which

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • דִּבֶּ֧רhe has spoken

    diberH1696 →1141 times

  • יְהוָ֛הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • עֲבָדֶ֖יךָservants your

    ʾavadeikhaH5650 →799 times

  • כֵּ֥ןthus

    kenH3651 →771 times

  • נַעֲשֶֽׂה׃we will do

    naasehH6213 →2628 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.
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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 Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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