Numbers 32:19
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What does Numbers 32:19 mean?
For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan,
or
forward
This they said, not as being determined whether Moses and the
princes were willing or not to stay where they were, and not pass
over Jordan to inherit any part there, and much less as despising
the good land, but as giving up all pretensions to it, should
they be settled where they desired; they were not of that selfish
and covetous disposition as to desire any part on the other side
Jordan, if it was but granted them to continue on this side, and
possess the land they requested:
because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan
eastward;
they seem to speak as if they were assured of it, and that it was
so ordered by divine Providence, and wanted nothing but the
consent of Moses, and the princes of the congregation.
