Numbers 32:8

8 "That's what your fathers did. I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to check out the land.

Numbers 32:8 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 32:8

Thus did your fathers
Meaning not particularly and only the fathers of these two tribes he was speaking to, but of them and the other tribes also, who acted much such a part; did not choose to go into the good land to possess it, when they were bid to do it, but were for sending spies first, which brought an ill report of it, and discouraged the people from going into it; the history of which Moses here gives:

when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land;
called only Kadesh, ( Numbers 13:26 ) the reason of the name (See Gill on Numbers 32:13).

Numbers 32:8 In-Context

6 Moses spoke to the people of Gad and Reuben. He said, "Should the rest of us go to war while you stay here?
7 The LORD has given the land of Canaan to the people of Israel. So why would you want to keep them from going over into it?
8 "That's what your fathers did. I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to check out the land.
9 They went up to the Valley of Eshcol and looked at the land. Then they talked the people of Israel out of entering the land the LORD had given them.
10 "The LORD's anger was stirred up that day. So he took an oath and made a promise. He said,
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