Numbers 32:18

18 We will not return to our homes until all the Israelites have obtained their inheritance.

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 they came up to him and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our flocks, and towns for our little ones,

17 but we will take up arms as a vanguard before the Israelites, until we have brought them to their place. Meanwhile our little ones will stay in the fortified towns because of the inhabitants of the land.

18 We will not return to our homes until all the Israelites have obtained their inheritance.

19 We will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan to the east."

20 So Moses said to them, "If you do this—if you take up arms to go before the Lord for the war,