Numbers 32:4

4 the land that the LORD won for the community of Israel, is a good place for livestock. Gentlemen, we have livestock.

Numbers 32:4 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 32:4

Even the county which the Lord smote before the congregation of
Israel
In which the above cities were, and perhaps some others not named: this was now in the hands of the people of Israel, being subdued by them, the conquest of which is ascribed unto the Lord, for the victory was of him; it was he that smote their enemies; and delivered their country into their hands; and now Moses, Eleazar, and the princes of the congregation, being the representatives of the people, had a right to dispose of it, and, which these two tribes request might be given to them, because, say they:

it is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle;
to stock it, with and great numbers of them; see ( Numbers 32:1 )

Numbers 32:4 In-Context

2 So they came to Moses, the priest Eleazar, and the leaders of the community, and said to them,

3 "Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,

4 the land that the LORD won for the community of Israel, is a good place for livestock. Gentlemen, we have livestock.

5 Please give us this land as our property. Don't make us cross the Jordan River."

6 Moses asked the tribes of Gad and Reuben, "Are you going to stay here while the rest of the Israelites go to war?