Numbers 32:16

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • Gen 33:17 : 17 Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his cattle. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.{succoth means shelters or booths.}
  • Num 34:22 : 22 Of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli.

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  • Num 32:17-18
    2 verses
    86%

    17but 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.

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

  • Num 32:24-27
    4 verses
    83%

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

    25The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, Your servants will do as my lord commands.

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

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

  • Num 32:36
    77%

    36and Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities, and folds for sheep.

  • Num 32:15
    75%

    15For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all this people.

  • Josh 21:2
    74%

    2and they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, Yahweh commanded Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs of it for our cattle.

  • 1 Sam 25:16
    74%

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

  • Num 32:30-32
    3 verses
    73%

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

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

    32We 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 32:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle; and your servants have cattle.

    5They said, If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession; don't bring us over the Jordan.

  • Josh 22:26
    72%

    26Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:

  • Josh 22:15
    72%

    15They came to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying,

  • Gen 46:32
    72%

    32These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.'

  • Num 35:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and suburbs for the cities round about them shall you give to the Levites.

    3The cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their animals.

  • Deut 1:22
    72%

    22You 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 3:19
    71%

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

  • Josh 9:11
    71%

    11Our 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: and now make you a covenant with us.

  • Gen 34:16
    71%

    16then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

  • Josh 22:24
    71%

    24and if we have not [rather] out of carefulness done this, [and] of purpose, 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 32:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for cattle;

    2the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying,

  • Gen 34:22-23
    2 verses
    71%

    22Only on this condition will the men consent to us to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.

    23Won't their cattle and their substance and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us."

  • 2 Chr 14:7
    71%

    7For he said to Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars; the land is yet before us, because we have sought Yahweh our God; we have sought him, and he has given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.

  • Jer 42:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13But if you say, We will not dwell in this land; so that you don't obey the voice of Yahweh your God,

    14saying, 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:

  • Num 13:19
    70%

    19and 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;

  • Josh 8:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5and 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;

    6and they will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: so we will flee before them;

  • Num 14:3
    70%

    3Why 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?

  • Num 10:31-32
    2 verses
    70%

    31He said, Don't leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you shall be to us instead of eyes.

    32It shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that whatever good Yahweh shall do to us, the same will we do to you.

  • Gen 33:13
    70%

    13Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

  • Deut 2:35
    70%

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

  • Deut 6:10
    70%

    10It shall be, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn't build,

  • Num 14:8
    70%

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

  • Exod 1:10
    69%

    10Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land."

  • Gen 34:10
    69%

    10You shall dwell with us: and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it."

  • Deut 1:39
    69%

    39Moreover 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 32:20
    69%

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

  • Jer 6:3
    69%

    3Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed everyone in his place.

  • Num 14:31
    69%

    31But 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.