“Do you intend to stay here while your brothers go across and do all the fighting?” Moses asked the men of Gad and Reuben.
Uriah replied, “The Ark and the armies of Israel and Judah are living in tents, and Joab and my master’s men are camping in the open fields. How could I go home to wine and dine and sleep with my wife? I swear that I would never do such a thing.”
If we have found favor with you, please let us have this land as our property instead of giving us land across the Jordan River.”
“Why do you want to discourage the rest of the people of Israel from going across to the land the Lord has given them?
or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.
Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.
Why did you sit at home among the sheepfolds— to hear the shepherds whistle for their flocks? Yes, in the tribe of Reuben there was great indecision.