Numbers 32:20
Then Moses said to them, If you will do this, arming yourselves to go before the Lord to the war,
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Numbers 32:20
Then Moses said to them, If you will do this, arming yourselves to go before the Lord to the war,
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Numbers 32:21
Every armed man of you going across Jordan before the Lord till he has overcome and sent in flight all who are against him,
Numbers 32:22
And the land is under the rule of the Lord: then after that you may come back, having done no wrong to the Lord and to Israel; and this land will be yours for your heritage before the Lord.
Numbers 32:23
But if you do not do this, then you are sinners against the Lord; and you may be certain that your sin will have its reward.
Numbers 32:24
So get to work building your towns for your little ones, and safe places for your sheep; and do as you have said.
Numbers 32:25
And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben said to Moses, Your servants will do as my lord says.
Numbers 32:26
Our little ones, our wives, and our flocks, and all our cattle, will be there in the towns of Gilead;
Numbers 32:27
But your servants will go over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to the fight, as my lord says.
Numbers 32:28
So Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua, the son of Nun, and to the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel.
Numbers 32:29
And Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben go with you over Jordan, every man armed for the fight before the Lord, and all the land is given into your hands, then let them have the land of Gilead for a heritage:
Numbers 32:30
But if they do not go over with you armed, they will have to take their heritage with you in the land of Canaan.
Numbers 32:31
Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben said, As the Lord has said to your servants, so will we do.
Numbers 32:32
We will go over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, and you will give us our heritage on this side of Jordan.
Numbers 32:42
And Nobah went and took Kenath and its small towns, naming it Nobah, after himself.
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Deuteronomy 3:18
At that time I gave you orders, saying, The Lord has given you this land for your heritage: all the men of war are to go over armed before your brothers the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 3:19
But your wives and your little ones and your cattle (for it is clear that you have much cattle) may go on living in the towns I have given you;
Deuteronomy 3:20
Till the Lord has given rest to your brothers as to you, and till they have taken for themselves the land which the Lord your God is giving them on the other side of Jordan: then you may go back, every man of you, to the heritage which I have given you.
Joshua 4:12
And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh went over armed before the children of Israel as Moses had said to them:
Joshua 4:13
About forty thousand armed for war went over before the Lord to the fight, to the lowlands of Jericho.
Joshua 22:1
Then Joshua sent for the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh,
Joshua 22:2
And said to them, You have kept all the orders of Moses, the Lord's servant, and have done everything I gave you orders to do:
Joshua 22:3
You have now been with your brothers for a long time; till this day you have been doing the orders of the Lord your God.
Joshua 22:4
And now the Lord your God has given your brothers rest, as he said: so now you may go back to your tents, to the land of your heritage, which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave to you on the other side of Jordan.
Joshua 1:13
Keep in mind what Moses, the servant of the Lord, said to you, The Lord your God is sending you rest and will give you this land.
Joshua 1:14
Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle will be kept here in the land which Moses gave you on this side of Jordan; but you, the fighting-men, are to go over before your brothers, armed, to give them help;
Joshua 1:15
Till the Lord has given your brothers rest, as he has given it to you, and they have taken their heritage in the land which the Lord your God is giving them: then you will go back to the land of your heritage which Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave you on the east side of Jordan.
Joshua 22:9
So Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh went back, parting from the children of Israel at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their heritage which had been given to them by the Lord's order to Moses.
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Numbers 32:17
But we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel till we have taken them to their place: but our little ones will be safe in the walled towns against the people of the land.
Numbers 32:18
We will not come back to our houses till every one of the children of Israel has come into his heritage.
Numbers 32:19
For we will not have our heritage with them on the other side of Jordan and forward; because our heritage has come to us on this side of Jordan to the east.
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Numbers 10:18
Then the flag of the children of Reuben went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Elizur, the son of Shedeur.
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1 Samuel 18:17
And Saul said to David, Here is my oldest daughter Merab, whom I will give you for your wife: only be strong for me, fighting in the Lord's wars. For Saul said, Let it not be through me that his fate comes to him, but through the Philistines.
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1 Samuel 25:28
And may the sin of your servant have forgiveness: for the Lord will certainly make your family strong, because my lord is fighting in the Lord's war; and no evil will be seen in you all your days.
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