Numbers 32:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Now the Reubenites and the Gadites owned a very great number of cattle. When they saw that the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was a good place for cattle,

Cross References

Genesis 13:2

Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

Genesis 13:5

Now Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents,

Genesis 29:32

Leah conceived and bore a son, and she named him Reuben, for she said, “Because the Lord has looked on my affliction, surely now my husband will love me.”

Genesis 47:4

They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to reside as aliens in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now, we ask you, let your servants settle in the land of Goshen.”

2 Samuel 24:5

They crossed the Jordan and began from Aroer and from the city that is in the middle of the valley, toward Gad and on to Jazer.

2 Samuel 24:6

Then they came to Gilead and to Kadesh in the land of the Hittites, and they came to Dan, and from Dan they went around to Sidon

1 Chronicles 4:41

These, registered by name, came in the days of King Hezekiah of Judah and attacked their tents and the Meunim who were found there and exterminated them to this day and settled in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks.

Exodus 12:38

A mixed crowd also went up with them and livestock in great numbers, both flocks and herds.

Jeremiah 22:6

For thus says the Lord concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are like Gilead to me, like the summit of Lebanon, but I swear that I will make you a desert, uninhabited cities.

Jeremiah 48:32

More than for Jazer I weep for you, O vine of Sibmah! Your branches crossed over the sea, reached as far as Jazer; upon your summer fruits and your vintage the destroyer has fallen.

Jeremiah 50:19

I will restore Israel to its pasture, and it shall feed on Carmel and in Bashan, and on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead its hunger shall be satisfied.

Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?

Micah 7:14

Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock that belongs to you, which lives alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old.

Numbers 21:32

Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.

Numbers 32:2

the Gadites and the Reubenites came and spoke to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the leaders of the congregation, saying,

Numbers 32:26

Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock shall remain there in the towns of Gilead,

Numbers 32:3

“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon—

Numbers 32:35

Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,

Deuteronomy 33:21

He chose the best for himself, for there a commander’s allotment was reserved; he came at the head of the people; he executed the justice of the Lord and his ordinances with Israel.”

Joshua 13:25

Their territory was Jazer, and all the towns of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to Aroer, which is near Rabbah,

Joshua 22:13

Then the Israelites sent the priest Phinehas son of Eleazar to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead,

Joshua 22:9

So the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned home, parting from the Israelites at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, their own land of which they had taken possession by command of the Lord through Moses.

1 John 2:16

for all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, the pride in riches—comes not from the Father but from the world.

Judges 5:16

Why did you tarry among the sheepfolds, to hear the piping for the flocks? Among the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.