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Numbers 32:19
Yet we will not have an inheritance with them across the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on the east side of the Jordan.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The leaders of the Reubenites and Gadites address Moses at the plains of Moab, immediately after proposing to remain east of the Jordan while their fellow tribes fight in Canaan.
The words — The Hebrew לֹא (loʾ) translates as “not” and נִנְחַל (ninchal) means “we will inherit,” together forming the explicit refusal to claim territory west of the river.
The thread — This east-Jordan allocation is later recorded as fulfilled for the Reubenites, Gadites, and half of Manasseh in Joshua 13:8.
Why it lands — The verse requires readers to distinguish between temporary military deployment and permanent territorial settlement, making clear that promised land cannot be claimed until the assigned campaign concludes.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.
Cross-references
- Joshua 13:8 The other half of Manasseh, along with the Reubenites and Gadites, had received the inheritance Moses had given them beyond the Jordan to the east, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had assigned to them:
- Genesis 13:10 And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
- Genesis 14:12 They also carried off Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions, since Lot was living in Sodom.
- Numbers 32:32 We will cross over into the land of Canaan armed before the LORD, that we may have our inheritance on this side of the Jordan.”
- Numbers 34:15 These two and a half tribes have received their inheritance across the Jordan from Jericho, toward the sunrise.”
- Joshua 1:14 Your wives, your young children, and your livestock may remain in the land that Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan. But all your mighty men of valor must be armed for battle to cross over ahead of your brothers and help them,
- Joshua 12:1 Now these are the kings of the land whom the Israelites struck down and whose lands they took beyond the Jordan to the east, from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon, including all the Arabah eastward:
- 2 Kings 10:32 In those days the LORD began to reduce the size of Israel. Hazael defeated the Israelites throughout their territory
- 2 Kings 15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people as captives to Assyria.
- 1 Chronicles 5:25 But they were unfaithful to the God of their fathers, and they prostituted themselves with the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.