Numbers 32:17

World English Bible (2000)

but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

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  • Josh 4:12-13 : 12 The children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke to them. 13 About forty thousand men, ready and armed for war passed over before Yahweh to battle, to the plains of Jericho.
  • Num 32:29-32 : 29 Moses said to them, "If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle, before Yahweh, and the land shall be subdued before you; then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession: 30 but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan." 31 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, "As Yahweh has said to your servants, so will we do. 32 We will pass over armed before Yahweh into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance [shall remain] with us beyond the Jordan."
  • Deut 3:18-20 : 18 I commanded you at that time, saying, "Yahweh your God has given you this land to possess it: you shall pass over armed before your brothers the children of Israel, all the men of valor. 19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you have much livestock), shall live in your cities which I have given you, 20 until Yahweh gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also possess the land which Yahweh your God gives them beyond the Jordan: then you shall return every man to his possession, which I have given you."

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  • Num 32:16
    86%

    16 They came near to him, and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones:

  • Num 32:18-21
    4 verses
    84%

    18 We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.

    19 For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward."

    20 Moses said to them, "If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before Yahweh to the war,

    21 and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before Yahweh, until he has driven out his enemies from before him,

  • Num 32:26-27
    2 verses
    82%

    26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock, shall be there in the cities of Gilead;

    27 but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before Yahweh to battle, as my lord says."

  • Num 32:29-32
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    80%

    29 Moses said to them, "If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle, before Yahweh, and the land shall be subdued before you; then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:

    30 but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan."

    31 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, "As Yahweh has said to your servants, so will we do.

    32 We will pass over armed before Yahweh into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance [shall remain] with us beyond the Jordan."

  • Num 14:3
    75%

    3 Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?"

  • Deut 1:39
    75%

    39 Moreover your little ones, whom you said should be a prey, and your children, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

  • Num 32:24
    74%

    24 Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth."

  • Josh 1:14
    74%

    14 Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock, shall live in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but you shall pass over before your brothers armed, all the mighty men of valor, and shall help them

  • Deut 3:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

    18 I commanded you at that time, saying, "Yahweh your God has given you this land to possess it: you shall pass over armed before your brothers the children of Israel, all the men of valor.

    19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you have much livestock), shall live in your cities which I have given you,

  • Josh 8:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5 I, and all the people who are with me, will approach to the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.

    6 They will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, 'They flee before us, like the first time.' So we will flee before them,

  • Exod 10:9-10
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    9 Moses said, "We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to Yahweh."

    10 He said to them, "Yahweh be with you if I will let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces.

  • Deut 1:28
    73%

    28 Where are we going up? our brothers have made our heart to melt, saying, 'The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to the sky; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.'"

  • Jer 42:14
    72%

    14 saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:

  • Josh 22:24
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    24 "If we have not out of concern done this, and for a reason, saying, 'In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, "What have you to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel?

  • Num 14:31
    72%

    31 But your little ones, that you said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.

  • Deut 29:11
    72%

    11 your little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;

  • 1 Sam 14:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9 If they say thus to us, 'Wait until we come to you!' then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up to them.

    10 But if they say this, 'Come up to us!' then we will go up; for Yahweh has delivered them into our hand. This shall be the sign to us."

  • Deut 2:34-36
    3 verses
    72%

    34 We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:

    35 only the livestock we took for a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken.

    36 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and [from] the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; Yahweh our God delivered up all before us:

  • Gen 43:8
    72%

    8 Judah said to Israel, his father, "Send the boy with me, and we'll get up and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.

  • Num 13:28
    71%

    28 However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, [and] very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.

  • Deut 1:22
    71%

    22 You came near to me everyone of you, and said, "Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come."

  • Deut 2:29
    71%

    29 as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us."

  • 1 Sam 25:16
    71%

    16 They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

  • Num 13:19
    71%

    19 and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds;

  • Num 14:8-9
    2 verses
    71%

    8 If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.

    9 Only don't rebel against Yahweh, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us. Don't fear them."

  • Num 20:17
    71%

    17 "Please let us pass through your land: we will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go along the king's highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border."

  • Deut 3:7
    71%

    7 But all the livestock, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.

  • Josh 4:12
    71%

    12 The children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke to them.

  • Judg 20:32
    70%

    32 The children of Benjamin said, "They are struck down before us, as at the first." But the children of Israel said, "Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways."

  • Num 13:31
    70%

    31 But the men who went up with him said, "We aren't able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we."

  • Deut 29:16
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    16 (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed;

  • Josh 9:11
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    11 Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, 'Take provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and tell them, "We are your servants. Now make a covenant with us."'

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    70%

    52 The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.

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    11 and you shall say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates;

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    70%

    5 All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many.