Numbers 32:18

18 and we will not return home until every Israelite has received his land.

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 Then the Reubenites and Gadites came up to Moses and said, "We will build pens for our animals and cities for our children here.

17 Then our children will be in strong, walled cities, safe from the people who live in this land. Then we will prepare for war. We will help the other Israelites get their land,

18 and we will not return home until every Israelite has received his land.

19 We won't take any of the land west of the Jordan River; our part of the land is east of the Jordan."

20 So Moses told them, "You must do these things. You must go before the Lord into battle