Numbers 32:18

18 We will not return to our houses until the {Israelites} each obtain their inheritance for themselves.

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 They came near to him and said, "We will build sheep pens here for [the] flock of our livestock and cities for our little children;

17 but we ourselves will become armed [and] ready before the {Israelites} until we have brought them to their place, and our little children will live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

18 We will not return to our houses until the {Israelites} each obtain their inheritance for themselves.

19 For we will not take possession with them from across the Jordan and beyond because our inheritance has come to us from across the Jordan to the east."

20 So Moses said to them, "If you do this thing, if you arm yourselves {before} Yahweh for the war,

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "sons/children of Israel"
• [b]. Hebrew "his"