Numbers 32:1

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The tribes of Reuben and Gad owned a lot of cattle and sheep, and they saw that the regions of Jazer and Gilead had good pasture land.

Cross References

Genesis 13:2

Abram was very rich. He owned many cattle, sheep, and goats, and had a lot of silver and gold.

Genesis 13:5

Lot, who was travelling with him, also had sheep, goats, and cattle, as well as his own family and slaves.

Genesis 29:32

Leah gave birth to a son and named him Reuben, because she said, “The LORD has taken away my sorrow. Now my husband will love me more than he does Rachel.”

Genesis 47:4

But in our country all the pastures are dried up, and our sheep have no grass to eat. So we, your servants, have come here. Please let us live in the region of Goshen.”

2 Samuel 24:5

They crossed the River Jordan and began with Aroer and the town in the middle of the river valley. From there they went towards Gad and on as far as Jazer.

2 Samuel 24:6

They went to Gilead and to Kadesh in Syria. Then they went to Dan, Ijon, and on towards Sidon.

1 Chronicles 4:41

but when Hezekiah was king of Judah, the descendants of Simeon attacked and forced the Hamites and Meunites off the land, then settled there.

Exodus 12:38

Many other people went with them as well, and there were also a lot of sheep, goats, and cattle.

Jeremiah 22:6

Listen to what I think about it: the palace of Judah's king is as glorious as Gilead or Lebanon's highest peaks. But it will be as empty as a ghost town when I'm through with it.

Jeremiah 48:32

People of Sibmah, you were like a vineyard heavy with grapes, and with branches reaching north to the town of Jazer and west to the Dead Sea. But you have been destroyed, and so I will weep for you, as the people of Jazer weep for the vineyards.

Jeremiah 50:19

But I will bring Israel back to its own land. The people will be like sheep eating their fill on Mount Carmel and in Bashan, in the hill country of Ephraim and in Gilead.

Jeremiah 8:22

If medicine and doctors may be found in Gilead, why aren't my people healed?

Micah 7:14

Lead your people, LORD! Come and be our shepherd. Grasslands surround us, but we live in a forest. So lead us to Bashan and Gilead, and let us find pasture as we did long ago.

Numbers 21:32

Moses sent some men to explore the town of Jazer. Later, the Israelites captured the villages surrounding it and forced out the Amorites who lived there.

Numbers 32:2

So they went to Moses, Eleazar, and the other leaders of Israel and said,

Numbers 32:26

Our wives and children and sheep and cattle will stay here in the towns in Gilead.

Numbers 32:3

“The LORD has helped us capture the land around the towns of Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon. That's good pasture land, and since we own cattle and sheep,

Numbers 32:35

Atroth-Shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,

Deuteronomy 33:21

Your leaders met together and chose the best land for your tribe, but you obeyed the LORD and helped the other tribes.

Joshua 13:25

It included the town of Jazer, and in the Gilead region their territory took in the land and towns as far east as the town of Aroer just west of Rabbah. This was about half of the land that had once belonged to the Ammonites.

Joshua 22:13

But first they sent a priest, Phinehas the son of Eleazar, to talk with the two and a half tribes.

1 John 2:16

Our foolish pride comes from this world, and so do our selfish desires and our desire to have everything we see. None of this comes from the Father.

Judges 5:16

Reuben, why did you stay among your sheep pens? Was it to listen to shepherds whistling for their sheep? No one could understand why Reuben wouldn't come.