Numbers 32:16

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14 And look! You have risen in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the ^afierce anger of the Lord against Israel.

15 For if you ^aturn away from following Him, He will once again leave them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all these people.”

16 Then they came near to him and said: “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones,

17 but ^awe ourselves will be armed, ready to go before the children of Israel until we have brought them to their place; and our little ones will dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

18 ^aWe will not return to our homes until every one of the children of Israel has¹ received his inheritance.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Numbers 32:16

We will build - cities for our little ones - It was impossible for these, numerous as they might be, to build cities and fortify them for the defense of their families in their absence. Calmet supposes they meant no more than repairing the cities of the Amorites which they had lately taken; which work might have been very easily accomplished in the time which they spent on this side of Jordan, before they went over with their brethren, to put them in possession of the land.

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