Bilangan 32:16

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Tetapi mendekatlah mereka kepadanya serta berkata: "Kami hendak mendirikan kandang-kandang kambing domba di sini untuk ternak kami dan kota-kota untuk anak-anak kami,

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tetapi mendekatlah mereka kepadanya serta berkata: "Kami hendak mendirikan kandang-kandang kambing domba di sini untuk ternak kami dan kota-kota untuk anak-anak kami,

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka datanglah mereka itu hampir sambil sembahnya: Bahwa di sini hamba hendak membangunkan kandang-kandang sahaja akan binatang hamba dan negeri akan anak-anak hamba.

Contextual Overview

¹⁶ And they went neare hym, and sayde: We wyll builde sheepe foldes here for our sheepe & for our cattell, and [walled] cities for our children: ¹⁷ But we our selues wyl go redy armed before the children of Israel, vntyll we haue brought them vnto their place: And our children shall dwell in the fensed cities, because of the inhabiters of the lande. ¹⁸ We wyll not returne vnto our houses, vntyll the children of Israel haue inherited, euery man his inheritaunce: ¹⁹ Neither wyll we inherite with them on yonder side Iordane forwarde, because our inheritaunce is fallen to vs on this side Iordane eastwarde. ²⁰ And Moyses sayde vnto them: If ye wyll do this thyng, and go harnessed before the Lorde to warre, ²¹ And will go all of you in harnesse ouer Iordane before the Lord, vntil he haue cast out his enemies from his sight, ²² And vntyll the lande be subdued before the Lorde: then ye shall returne, and be without sinne before the Lorde and before Israel, and this lande shalbe your possession before the Lorde. ²³ But and if ye wyll not do so, beholde, ye haue sinned agaynst the Lorde: and be sure your sinne wyll finde you out. ²⁴ Nowe therfore, builde cities for your children, and foldes for your sheepe, and do that ye haue spoken. ²⁵ The children of Gad, and the children of Ruben, spake vnto Moyses, saying: Thy seruauntes wyll do as my Lorde commaundeth.

Bible Verse Review
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This proposal was very equitable, and it was honestly made and faithfully executed; though it did not imply that all men capable of bearing arms should go, and so leave their families and possessions defenceless, but only a sufficient detachment of them. Among the inhabitants of the land were the Ammonites, Moabites, Idumeans, and the remains of the Midianites and Amorites; and as it was impossible for the women and children to keep the defenced cities, when placed in them, many of the men of war must of course stay behind. In the last census - Numbers 26:1, the tribe of Reuben consisted of 43,730 men; the tribe of Gad 40,500; and the tribe of Manasseh 52,700; the half of which is 26,350; which together amount to 110,580. Now from Joshua 4:13, we learn, that of these tribes only 40,000 armed men passed over Jordan to assist their brethren: consequently 70,580 men were left behind for the defence of the women, the children, and the flocks: which was amply sufficient for this purpose. Numbers 34:22, Genesis 33:17

Reciprocal: Numbers 32:24 - General Deuteronomy 33:21 - the first part

Cross-References

Genesis 32:8
And sayd, if Esau come to the one part and smite it, the other shall saue it selfe.

Genesis 32:9
And Iacob said agayne: O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isahac, Lorde whiche saydest vnto me, returne vnto thy countrey, and to thy kindred, & I will do well with thee:

Genesis 32:20
And say moreouer: beholde, thy seruaunt Iacob also commeth after vs: for he sayde, I wyll appeace his wrath with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see him my selfe, peraduenture he wyll receaue me to grace.

Psalms 112:5
A good man is mercyfull and lendeth: he wyll guyde his wordes with discretion.

Proverbs 2:11
Then shall counsayle preserue thee, and vnderstandyng shall kepe thee,

Isaiah 28:26
God wyll instruct hym to haue discretion, euen his God wyll teache hym.

Matthew 10:16
Beholde, I sende you foorth, as sheepe in the middest of woolfes. Be ye therfore wyse as serpentes, and harmelesse as doues.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they came near unto him,.... The heads of the tribes of Gad and Reuben came a little nearer to Moses, having something more to say unto him, in order to explain their meaning, and in doing which they used some degree of freedom and boldness with him, see Genesis 44:18

and said, we will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones not build new ones, but repair the old ones; for there were cities enough in the country, as before named, and no doubt sheepfolds too, as the land was a place of cattle, but those were through the war broken down and demolished, and needed repairing; and this they proposed to do, and leave their children and their cattle to the care of their servants, under the protection of the divine Providence, and did not mean for the present to take up their abode here.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 32:16. We will build - cities for our little ones — It was impossible for these, numerous as they might be, to build cities and fortify them for the defence of their families in their absence. Calmet supposes they meant no more than repairing the cities of the Amorites which they had lately taken; which work might have been very easily accomplished in the time which they spent on this side of Jordan, before they went over with their brethren, to put them in possession of the land.