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Numbers 32:4

The land which the Lord gave into the hands of the children of Israel, is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Beth-Baal-Meon;   Cattle;   Gad;   Gilead;   Haste;   Misjudgment;   Motive;   Petition;   Uncharitableness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Gad, the Tribe of;   Ox, the;   Reuben, the Tribe of;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gad;   Reuben;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ammon;   Gad;   Heshbon;   Manasseh, tribe of;   Reuben;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Land (of Israel);   Easton Bible Dictionary - Cattle;   Gad;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bashan;   Jaazer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gad;   Israel;   Leopard;   Manasseh;   Reuben;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Baal-zephon;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Reuben;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ja'besh;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Moab;   Reuben;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Sheep;   Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
the land which the LORD struck before the congregation of Yisra'el, is a land for cattle; and your servants have cattle.
King James Version
Even the country which the Lord smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:
Lexham English Bible
the land that Yahweh struck before the community of Israel, is a land of livestock, and your servants have livestock."
English Standard Version
the land that the Lord struck down before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock."
New English Translation
the land that the Lord subdued before the community of Israel, is ideal for cattle, and your servants have cattle."
Amplified Bible
the land which the LORD conquered before the congregation of Israel, is a land [suitable] for livestock, and your servants have [very large herds of] livestock."
New American Standard Bible
the land which the LORD conquered before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Which countrey the Lorde smote before the Congregation of Israel, is a lande meete for cattell, and thy seruants haue cattell:
Legacy Standard Bible
the land, which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock."
Complete Jewish Bible
the country that Adonai conquered before the community of Isra'el, is livestock country; and your servants have livestock.
Darby Translation
the country that Jehovah smote before the assembly of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle;
George Lamsa Translation
The land which the LORD smote before the children of Israel is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle;
Christian Standard Bible®
which the Lord struck down before the community of Israel, is good land for livestock, and your servants own livestock.”
Literal Translation
the land which Jehovah has struck before the congregation of Israel is a land for livestock, and your servants own livestock.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
which the LORDE smote before ye congregacion of Israel, is a mete londe for catell, and thy seruauntes haue many catell.
American Standard Version
the land which Jehovah smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle; and thy servants have cattle.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Which countrey the Lorde smote before the congregation of Israel, is a lande meete for cattell, and we thy seruauntes haue cattell.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
the land which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle.'
King James Version (1611)
Euen the countrey which the Lord smote before the Congregation of Israel, is a land for cattell, and thy seruants haue cattell.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
the land which the Lord has delivered up before the children of Israel, is pasture land, and thy servants have cattle.
English Revised Version
the land which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle.
Berean Standard Bible
which the LORD conquered before the congregation of Israel, are suitable for livestock-and your servants have livestock."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Nebo, and Beon, the lond which the Lord smoot in the siyt of the sones of Israel, is of moost plenteuous cuntrey to the pasture of beestis; and we thi seruauntis han ful many beestis;
Young's Literal Translation
the land which Jehovah hath smitten before the company of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle.'
Update Bible Version
the land which Yahweh smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle; and your slaves have cattle.
Webster's Bible Translation
[Even] the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, [is] a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:
World English Bible
the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle; and your servants have cattle.
New King James Version
the country which the LORD defeated before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock."
New Living Translation
The Lord has conquered this whole area for the community of Israel, and it is ideally suited for all our livestock.
New Life Bible
the land which the Lord won in battle in front of the people of Israel, is a land for cattle and your servants have cattle."
New Revised Standard
the land that the Lord subdued before the congregation of Israel—is a land for cattle; and your servants have cattle."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
the land which Yahweh smote before the assembly of Israel, a land for cattle, it is, - and, thy servants, have cattle.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The land, which the Lord hath conquered in the sight of the children of Israel, is a very fertile soil for the feeding of beasts: and we thy servants have very much cattle:
Revised Standard Version
the land which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle; and your servants have cattle."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
the land which the LORD conquered before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock."

Contextual Overview

1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a great number of cattle: and when they saw that the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was a good place for cattle; 2 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the meeting, 3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon, 4 The land which the Lord gave into the hands of the children of Israel, is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle. 5 And they said, With your approval, let this land be given to your servants as their heritage: do not take us over Jordan. 6 And Moses said to the children of Gad and the children of Reuben, Are your brothers to go to the war, while you take your rest here? 7 Why would you take from the children of Israel the desire to go over into the land which the Lord has given them? 8 So did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land. 9 For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they took from the children of Israel the desire to go into the land which the Lord had given them. 10 And at that time the Lord was moved to wrath, and made an oath, saying,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 21:24, Numbers 21:34, Deuteronomy 2:24-35

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 13:15 - God smote Isaiah 15:4 - Heshbon

Cross-References

Genesis 4:7
If you do well, will you not have honour? and if you do wrong, sin is waiting at the door, desiring to have you, but do not let it be your master.
Genesis 23:6
My lord, truly you are a great chief among us; take the best of our resting-places for your dead; not one of us will keep back from you a place where you may put your dead to rest.
Genesis 27:29
Let peoples be your servants, and nations go down before you: be lord over your brothers, and let your mother's sons go down before you: a curse be on everyone by whom you are cursed, and a blessing on those who give you a blessing.
Genesis 27:37
And Isaac answering said, But I have made him your master, and have given him all his brothers for servants; I have made him strong with grain and wine: what then am I to do for you, my son?
Genesis 32:5
And I have oxen and asses and flocks and men-servants and women-servants: and I have sent to give my lord news of these things so that I may have grace in his eyes.
Genesis 32:18
Then say to him, These are your servant Jacob's; they are an offering for my lord, for Esau; and he himself is coming after us.
Genesis 33:8
And he said, What were all those herds which I saw on the way? And Jacob said, They were an offering so that I might have grace in my lord's eyes.
Exodus 32:22
And Aaron said, Let not my lord be angry; you have seen how the purposes of this people are evil.
1 Samuel 26:17
And Saul, conscious that the voice was David's, said, Is that your voice, David, my son? And David said, It is my voice, O my lord king.
1 Kings 20:32
So they put on haircloth, and cords on their heads, and came to the king of Israel and said, Your servant Ben-hadad says, Let me now keep my life. And he said, Is he still living? he is my brother.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Even the county which the Lord smote before the congregation of Israel,.... In which the above cities were, and perhaps some others not named: this was now in the hands of the people of Israel, being subdued by them, the conquest of which is ascribed unto the Lord, for the victory was of him; it was he that smote their enemies; and delivered their country into their hands; and now Moses, Eleazar, and the princes of the congregation, being the representatives of the people, had a right to dispose of it, and, which these two tribes request might be given to them, because, say they:

it is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle; to stock it, with and great numbers of them; see Numbers 32:1


 
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