18We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
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Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-27)We have here the accommodating of the matter between Moses and the two tribes, about their settlement on this side Jordan. Probably the petitioners withdrew, and considered with themselves what answer they should return to the severe reproof Moses had given them; and, after some consultation, they return with this proposal, that their men of war should go and assist their brethren in the conquest…
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