Numbers 32:18

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

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  • Josh 22:1-5 : 1 Joshua Sends Home the Eastern Tribes Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh 2 and told them:“You have carried out all the instructions of Moses the LORD’s servant, and you have obeyed all I have told you. 3 You have not abandoned your fellow Israelites this entire time, right up to this very day. You have completed the task given you by the LORD your God. 4 Now the LORD your God has made your fellow Israelites secure, just as he promised them. So now you may turn around and go to your homes in your own land which Moses the LORD’s servant assigned to you east of the Jordan. 5 But carefully obey the commands and instructions Moses the LORD’s servant gave you. Love the LORD your God, follow all his instructions, obey his commands, be loyal to him, and serve him with all your heart and being!”

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  • Num 32:19-22
    4 verses
    85%

    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

    22and the land is subdued before the LORD, then afterward you may return and be free of your obligation to the LORD and to Israel. This land will then be your possession in the LORD’s sight.

  • Num 32:16-17
    2 verses
    84%

    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,

    17but 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.

  • Num 32:30-32
    3 verses
    82%

    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.”

  • Judg 20:8
    75%

    8All Israel rose up in unison and said,“Not one of us will go home! Not one of us will return to his house!

  • Num 32:26-27
    2 verses
    75%

    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.”

  • Deut 29:8
    74%

    8Then we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh.

  • Deut 3:20
    73%

    20You 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.”

  • Num 14:3
    72%

    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?”

  • Josh 1:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    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

    15until the LORD gives your brothers a place like yours to settle and they conquer the land the LORD your God is ready to hand over to them. Then you may go back to your allotted land and occupy the land Moses the LORD’s servant assigned you east of the Jordan.”

  • 1 Sam 14:9
    72%

    9If they say to us,‘Stay put until we approach you,’ we will stay right there and not go up to them.

  • Jer 42:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13“You must not disobey the LORD your God by saying,‘We will not stay in this land.’

    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.’

  • Num 36:7
    72%

    7In this way the inheritance of the Israelites will not be transferred from tribe to tribe. But every one of the Israelites must retain the ancestral heritage.

  • Num 32:11
    72%

    11‘Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years old and upward who came from Egypt will see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,

  • Deut 2:14
    72%

    14Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the LORD had vowed to them.

  • Deut 12:9
    72%

    9for you have not yet come to the final stop and inheritance the LORD your God is giving you.

  • 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.’”

  • Judg 21:24
    71%

    24Then the Israelites dispersed from there to their respective tribal and clan territories. Each went from there to his own property.

  • Num 36:9
    71%

    9No inheritance may pass from tribe to tribe. But every one of the tribes of the Israelites must retain its inheritance.”

  • Num 32:5
    71%

    5So they said,“If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for our inheritance. Do not have us cross the Jordan River.”

  • Josh 18:2
    71%

    2seven Israelite tribes had not been assigned their allotted land.

  • Num 16:14
    71%

    14Moreover, you have not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, nor given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you think you can blind these men? We will not come up.”

  • Josh 22:25
    71%

    25The LORD made the Jordan a boundary between us and you Reubenites and Gadites. You have no right to worship the LORD.’ In this way your descendants might cause our descendants to stop obeying the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 20:11
    71%

    11Look how they are repaying us! They come to drive us out of our allotted land which you assigned to us!

  • Exod 10:26
    71%

    26Our livestock must also go with us! Not a hoof is to be left behind! For we must take these animals to serve the LORD our God. Until we arrive there, we do not know what we must use to serve the LORD.”

  • 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.”

  • Deut 2:36
    70%

    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.

  • Num 1:52
    70%

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

  • Deut 3:18
    70%

    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.

  • Deut 18:2
    70%

    2They will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; the LORD alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.

  • Num 21:22
    70%

    22“Let us pass through your land; we will not turn aside into the fields or into the vineyards, nor will we drink water from any well, but we will go along the King’s Highway until we pass your borders.”

  • Josh 22:9
    70%

    9So the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites in Shiloh in the land of Canaan and headed home to their own land in Gilead, which they acquired by the LORD’s command through Moses.

  • 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!”

  • Gen 31:16
    70%

    16Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you.”

  • Deut 1:35
    70%

    35“Not a single person of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors!

  • Josh 5:6
    70%

    6Indeed, for forty years the Israelites traveled through the wilderness until all the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt, the ones who had disobeyed the LORD, died off. For the LORD had sworn a solemn oath to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn by oath to their ancestors to give them, a land rich in milk and honey.

  • Judg 18:10
    70%

    10When you invade, you will encounter unsuspecting people. The land is wide! God is handing it over to you– a place that lacks nothing on earth!”

  • Deut 1:39
    70%

    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.

  • Deut 11:31
    70%

    31For you are about to cross the Jordan to possess the land the LORD your God is giving you, and you will possess and inhabit it.

  • Jer 35:9
    69%

    9We have not built any houses to live in. We do not own any vineyards, fields, or crops.

  • Judg 2:6
    69%

    6The End of an Era When Joshua dismissed the people, the Israelites went to their allotted portions of territory, intending to take possession of the land.