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Numbers 32
The request of Reuben and Gad for an inheritance on this
side Jordan, ver. 1-5. Moses's misconstruction of it, ver. 6-15.
Their explication of it, ver. 16-19. The grant of their petition, ver.
20-42.
Verse 1. Jazer - A city and country of the Amorites; Gilead - A
mountainous country, famous for pasturage
Verse 6. Ye sit here - In ease and peace, while your brethren are engaged
in a bloody war.
Verse 12. The Kenezite - So called from Kenaz, his grand-father.
Verse 15. All this people - Who being moved by your counsel and
example, will refuse to go over Jordan.
Verse 17. We ourselves - Either all, or as many as shall be thought
necessary, leaving only so many as may be necessary to provide
for the sustenance and defense of our wives and children here.
Verse 20. Before the Lord - Before the ark, which was the token of
God's presence. He alludes either to the order of the tribes in their
march, whereby Reuben and Gad marched immediately before the
ark, or to the manner of their passage over Jordan, wherein the ark
went first into Jordan, and stood there while all the tribes marched
over Jordan by and before it, and these amongst the rest, as is
expressly noted in these very words, that they passed over before
the Lord, Josh. iv, 13.
Verse 22. Before the Lord - By his presence and gracious and powerful
assistance.
Verse 23. Your sin - The punishment of your sin. Sin will certainly find
out the sinner sooner or later. It concerns us therefore to find our
sins out, that we may repent of them and forsake them, lest our
sins find us out, to our confusion and destruction.
Verse 30. They shall have possession - They shall forfeit their
possessions in Gilead, and be constrained to go over Jordan, and
to seek possessions there among their brethren.
Verse 31. As the Lord hath said - Either at this time by thy mouth: or
formerly, where he commanded us, as well as our brethren to go
into Canaan and possess it.
Verse 34. Built - Repaired and fortified. For they neither had need nor
leisure as yet to do more, the old cities not being burnt and ruined,
as divers in Canaan were.
Verse 38. Their names changed - Either because conquerers of places
used to do so: or because the names of other Gods (which Nebo
and Baal-meon unquestionably were) were not to be mentioned,
Exod. xxiii, 13.
Verse 40. Machir - Not to Machir himself, who doubtless was long since
dead, but the family or posterity of Machir.
Verse 42. Nobah - Who, though not else where named, was doubtless an
eminent person of the tribe of Manasseh. 'Tis observable, that
these tribes, as they were placed before the other tribes, so they
were displaced before them. They were carried captive by the
king of Assyria, some years before the other tribes. Such a
proportion does providence frequently observe, in balancing
prosperity and adversity.
Chapter 32:
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