Verse 16

Why did you sit among the sheepfolds, To hear the whistling for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben There were great searchings of heart.

Referenced Verses

  • Num 32:24 : 24 Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth."
  • Judg 5:15 : 15 The princes of Issachar were with Deborah. As was Issachar, so was Barak. They rushed into the valley at his feet. By the watercourses of Reuben, there were great resolves of heart.
  • Ps 4:4 : 4 Stand in awe, and don't sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.
  • Ps 77:6 : 6 I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:
  • Lam 3:40-41 : 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh. 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
  • Phil 2:21 : 21 For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.
  • Phil 3:19 : 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
  • Num 32:1-5 : 1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for livestock; 2 the 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, 3 "Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon, 4 the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock." 5 They 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."