Numbers 32:18 · World English Bible
Numbers 32:18 in the Original Hebrew
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Numbers 32:18 in Other Translations
| KJV | We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance. |
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| WEB | We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have each inherited their inheritance. |
| ASV | We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance. |
| YLT | we do not turn back unto our houses till the sons of Israel have inherited each his inheritance, |
| WBT | We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance. |
| DBY | We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited each one his inheritance. |
Commentary on Numbers 32:18
Expositions from classic Bible commentators.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown · Numbers 32:17–19
and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land--There was good policy in leaving a sufficient force to protect the conquered region lest the enemy should attempt reprisals; and as only forty thousand of the Reubenites and the Gadites, and a half of Manasseh, passed over the Jordan (Jos 4:13), there were left for the security of the new possessions 70,580 men, besides women and children under twenty years (compare Num 26:7, Num 26:18, Num 26:34).
We ourselves will go ready armed--that is, all of us in a collective body, or as many as may be deemed necessary, while the rest of our number shall remain at home to provide for the sustenance and secure the protection of our families and flocks. (See on Jos 4:12).
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Questions about Numbers 32:18
What does Numbers 32:18 say?
Numbers 32:18 in the World English Bible reads: “We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have each inherited their inheritance.” Read it in the full context of Numbers 32, alongside the classic commentary on this page.
Where is Numbers 32:18 found in the Bible?
Numbers 32:18 is in the book of Numbers, chapter 32, verse 18, in the Old Testament.
What Bible translation is Numbers 32:18 shown in?
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For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward,.... This they said, not as being determined whether Moses and the princes were willing or not to stay where they were, and not pass over Jordan to inherit any part there, and much less as despising the good land, but as giving up all pretensions to it, should they be settled where they desired; they were not of that selfish and covetous disposition as to desire any part on the other side Jordan, if it was but granted them to continue on this side, and possess the land they requested:
because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward; they seem to speak as if they were assured of it, and that it was so ordered by divine Providence, and wanted nothing but the consent of Moses, and the princes of the congregation.