Numbers 32:17

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

but we will maintain ourselves in armed readiness and go before the Israelites until whenever we have brought them to their place. Our descendants will be living in fortified towns as a protection against the inhabitants of the land.

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  • Josh 4:12-13 : 12 The Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over armed for battle ahead of the Israelites, just as Moses had instructed them. 13 About forty thousand battle-ready troops marched past the LORD to fight on the rift valley plains of Jericho.
  • Num 32:29-32 : 29 Moses said to them:“If the Gadites and the Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, each one equipped for battle in the LORD’s presence, and you conquer the land, then you must allot them the territory of Gilead as their possession. 30 But if they do not cross over with you armed, they must receive possessions among you in Canaan.” 31 Then the Gadites and the Reubenites answered,“Your servants will do what the LORD has spoken. 32 We will cross armed in the LORD’s presence into the land of Canaan, and then the possession of our inheritance that we inherit will be ours on this side of the Jordan River.”
  • Deut 3:18-20 : 18 Instructions to the Transjordanian Tribes At that time I instructed you as follows:“The LORD your God has given you this land for your possession. You warriors are to cross over before your fellow Israelites equipped for battle. 19 But your wives, children, and livestock(of which I know you have many) may remain in the cities I have given you. 20 You must fight until the LORD gives your countrymen victory as he did you and they take possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving them on the other side of the Jordan River. Then each of you may return to his own territory that I have given you.”

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  • Num 32:16
    86%

    16The Offer of the Reubenites and Gadites Then they came very close to him and said,“We will build sheep folds here for our flocks and cities for our families,

  • Num 32:18-21
    4 verses
    84%

    18We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has his inheritance.

    19For we will not accept any inheritance on the other side of the Jordan River and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this eastern side of the Jordan.”

    20Then Moses replied,“If you will do this thing, and if you will arm yourselves for battle before the LORD,

    21and if all your armed men cross the Jordan before the LORD until he drives out his enemies from his presence

  • Num 32:26-27
    2 verses
    82%

    26Our children, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock will be there in the cities of Gilead,

    27but your servants will cross over, every man armed for war, to do battle in the LORD’s presence, just as my lord says.”

  • Num 32:29-32
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    29Moses said to them:“If the Gadites and the Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, each one equipped for battle in the LORD’s presence, and you conquer the land, then you must allot them the territory of Gilead as their possession.

    30But if they do not cross over with you armed, they must receive possessions among you in Canaan.”

    31Then the Gadites and the Reubenites answered,“Your servants will do what the LORD has spoken.

    32We will cross armed in the LORD’s presence into the land of Canaan, and then the possession of our inheritance that we inherit will be ours on this side of the Jordan River.”

  • Num 14:3
    75%

    3Why has the LORD brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?”

  • Deut 1:39
    75%

    39Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way, and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad, will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.

  • Num 32:24
    74%

    24So build cities for your descendants and pens for your sheep, but do what you have said you would do.”

  • Josh 1:14
    74%

    14Your wives, children and cattle may stay in the land that Moses assigned to you east of the Jordan River. But all you warriors must cross over armed for battle ahead of your brothers. You must help them

  • Deut 3:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

    18Instructions to the Transjordanian Tribes At that time I instructed you as follows:“The LORD your God has given you this land for your possession. You warriors are to cross over before your fellow Israelites equipped for battle.

    19But your wives, children, and livestock(of which I know you have many) may remain in the cities I have given you.

  • Josh 8:5-6
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    5I and all the troops who are with me will approach the city. When they come out to fight us like before, we will retreat from them.

    6They will attack us until we have lured them from the city, for they will say,‘They are retreating from us like before.’ We will retreat from them.

  • Exod 10:9-10
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    9Moses said,“We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, and with our sheep and our cattle we will go, because we are to hold a pilgrim feast for the LORD.”

    10He said to them,“The LORD will need to be with you if I release you and your dependents! Watch out! Trouble is right in front of you!

  • Deut 1:28
    73%

    28What is going to happen to us? Our brothers have drained away our courage by describing people who are more numerous and taller than we are, and great cities whose defenses appear to be as high as heaven itself! Moreover, they said they saw Anakites there.”

  • Jer 42:14
    72%

    14You must not say,‘No, we will not stay. Instead we will go and live in the land of Egypt where we will not face war, or hear the enemy’s trumpet calls, or starve for lack of food.’

  • Josh 22:24
    72%

    24We swear we have done this because we were worried that in the future your descendants would say to our descendants,‘What relationship do you have with the LORD God of Israel?

  • Num 14:31
    72%

    31But I will bring in your little ones, whom you said would become victims of war, and they will enjoy the land that you have despised.

  • Deut 29:11
    72%

    11your infants, your wives, and the resident foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water–

  • 1 Sam 14:9-10
    2 verses
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    9If they say to us,‘Stay put until we approach you,’ we will stay right there and not go up to them.

    10But if they say,‘Come up against us,’ we will go up. For in that case the LORD has given them into our hand– it will be a sign to us.”

  • Deut 2:34-36
    3 verses
    72%

    34At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them under divine judgment, including even the women and children; we left no survivors.

    35We kept only the livestock and plunder from the cities for ourselves.

    36From Aroer, which is at the edge of Wadi Arnon(it is the city in the wadi), all the way to Gilead there was not a town able to resist us– the LORD our God gave them all to us.

  • Gen 43:8
    72%

    8Then Judah said to his father Israel,“Send the boy with me and we will go immediately. Then we will live and not die– we and you and our little ones.

  • Num 13:28
    71%

    28But the inhabitants are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. Moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.

  • Deut 1:22
    71%

    22So all of you approached me and said,“Let’s send some men ahead of us to scout out the land and bring us back word as to how we should attack it and what the cities are like there.”

  • Deut 2:29
    71%

    29just as the descendants of Esau who live at Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan to the land the LORD our God is giving us.”

  • 1 Sam 25:16
    71%

    16Both night and day they were a protective wall for us the entire time we were with them, while we were tending our flocks.

  • Num 13:19
    71%

    19and whether the land they live in is good or bad, and whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or fortified cities,

  • Num 14:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8If the LORD delights in us, then he will bring us into this land and give it to us– a land that is flowing with milk and honey.

    9Only do not rebel against the LORD, and do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection has turned aside from them, but the LORD is with us. Do not fear them!”

  • Num 20:17
    71%

    17Please let us pass through your country. We will not pass through the fields or through the vineyards, nor will we drink water from any well. We will go by the King’s Highway; we will not turn to the right or the left until we have passed through your region.’”

  • Deut 3:7
    71%

    7But all the livestock and plunder from the cities we kept for ourselves.

  • Josh 4:12
    71%

    12The Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over armed for battle ahead of the Israelites, just as Moses had instructed them.

  • Judg 20:32
    70%

    32Then the Benjaminites said,“They are defeated just as before.” But the Israelites said,“Let’s retreat and lure them away from the city into the main roads.”

  • Num 13:31
    70%

    31But the men who had gone up with him said,“We are not able to go up against these people, because they are stronger than we are!”

  • Deut 29:16
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    16The Results of Disobedience“(For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we crossed through the nations as we traveled.

  • Josh 9:11
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    11Our leaders and all who live in our land told us,‘Take provisions for your journey and go meet them. Tell them,“We are willing to be your subjects. Make a treaty with us.”’

  • Num 1:52
    70%

    52“The Israelites will camp according to their divisions, each man in his camp, and each man by his standard.

  • Ezek 38:11
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    11You will say,“I will invade a land of unwalled towns; I will advance against those living quietly in security– all of them living without walls and barred gates–

  • Deut 3:5
    70%

    5All of these cities were fortified by high walls, gates, and locking bars; in addition there were a great many open villages.