Bamidbar 32:8

8 Thus did Avoteichem, when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to look over HaAretz.

Bamidbar 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).

Bamidbar 32:8 In-Context

6 And Moshe said unto the Bnei Gad and to the Bnei Reuven, Shall your achim go to milchamah while ye sit here?

7 And why discourage ye the lev Bnei Yisroel from going over into HaAretz which Hashem hath given them?

8 Thus did Avoteichem, when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to look over HaAretz.

9 For when they went up unto the Eshcol Valley, and saw HaAretz, they discouraged the lev Bnei Yisroel, that they should not go into HaAretz which Hashem had given them.

10 And the Af Hashem was kindled on that day, and He swore, saying,