Numbers 32:18

18 We will not return unto our houses until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.

Numbers 32:18 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 32:18

We will not return unto our houses
In the cities built or repaired by them, or to their families, and their substance, their flocks and their herds; all which they should leave behind them, and never think of returning to them:

until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance;
until all the tribes were settled in their respective places, and every family and everyone in them had their portion assigned them; and accordingly they did not return until the land was wholly subdued, nor even until every lot came up, and the land was divided by it, and the inheritance of the several tribes fixed, and even the cities of the Levites assigned to them out of the several tribes; see ( Joshua 22:1-34 ) .

Numbers 32:18 In-Context

16 And they came near unto him and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our flocks and cities for our little ones,

17 but we ourselves will go ready and armed before the children of Israel until we have brought them unto their place; and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

18 We will not return unto our houses until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.

19 For we will not inherit with them on yonder side of the Jordan or forward, because our inheritance has fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward."

20 And Moses said unto them, "If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war,