Numbers 32:6

6 Moses said to the Gadites and the Reubenites, "Should your brothers go to war, while you stay here?

Numbers 32:6 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 32:6

And Moses said unto the children of Gad, and to the children of
Reuben
Being displeased with their motion, as his following discourse shows, it having at first sight an appearance of covetousness and cowardice:

shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
it is not reasonable that your brethren should be left by you and engage in a war with your common enemies, to dispossess them of their land before they can settle in it and you remain here easy and quiet in the possession of a fruitful country.

Numbers 32:6 In-Context

4 the land that the LORD struck down before the Israelite community. It is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock."

5 They said, "If you approve our request, give this land to your servants as property. Don't make us cross the Jordan."

6 Moses said to the Gadites and the Reubenites, "Should your brothers go to war, while you stay here?

7 Why would you destroy the Israelites' resolve to cross into the land that the LORD gave them?

8 Your ancestors did this, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to inspect the land.