Bilangan 32:17

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

tetapi kami sendiri akan mempersenjatai diri dan dengan bersegera kami akan berjalan di depan orang Israel, sampai kami membawa mereka ke tempatnya; sementara itu anak-anak kami akan tinggal dalam kota-kota yang berkubu oleh karena penduduk negeri ini;

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
tetapi kami sendiri akan mempersenjatai diri dan dengan bersegera kami akan berjalan di depan orang Israel, sampai kami membawa mereka ke tempatnya; sementara itu anak-anak kami akan tinggal dalam kota-kota yang berkubu oleh karena penduduk negeri ini;

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tetapi dengan berlengkap baik-baik dan bersegera juga hamba akan datang di hadapan bani Israel, sampai sudah hamba membawa akan mereka itu sekalian kepada tempatnya, tetapi dalam antara itu hendaklah kiranya anak-anak hamba duduk dalam negeri yang berkota benteng, supaya terpeliharalah mereka itu dari pada orang isi negeri ini.

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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Numbers 32:29-32, Deuteronomy 3:18-20, Joshua 4:12, Joshua 4:13

Reciprocal: Numbers 32:27 - armed Joshua 1:15 - Until

Cross-References

Genesis 33:3
And he went before them, and bowed him selfe to the grounde seuen tymes, vntill he came to his brother.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel,.... This they said to free themselves from the charge of cowardice, and that they did not mean to sit still while their brethren went to war; they were willing to put on their armour, and be ready to meet the enemy upon the borders of the land, and engage with them, and to expose their lives in favour of their brethren:

until we have brought them unto their place; to the land of Canaan, the place designed for them, and given unto them, to the possession of it, and a settlement in it:

and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities, because of the inhabitants of the land; where they might be safe from them, which they proposed to repair and refortify for the security of them, while they went with their brethren into the land of Canaan, to put them into possession of that, of which they made not the least doubt; and so served to clear them of suspicion of any distrust they had of entering into and possessing the land, which might tend to discourage the people.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 32:17. Because of the inhabitants of the land. — These were the Ammonites, Moabites, Idumeans, and the remains of the Midianites and Amorites. But could the women and children even keep the defenced cities, when placed in them? This certainly cannot be supposed possible. Many of the men of war must of course stay behind. In the last census, Numbers 26:0, the tribe of Reuben consisted of 43,730 men; the tribe of Gad, 40,500; the tribe of Manasseh, 52,700; the half of whichIsaiah 26:0is 26,350. Add this to the sum of the other two tribes, and the amount is 110,580. Now from Joshua 4:13 we learn that of the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half of the tribe of Manasseh, only 40,000 armed men passed over Jordan to assist their brethren in the reduction of the land: consequently the number of 70,580 men were left behind for the defence of the women, the children, and the flocks. This was more than sufficient to defend them against a people already panic struck by their late discomfitures and reverses.