When their families were secured in fortified towns against the inhabitants of the land, the men who could bear arms would not return to their houses till the children of Israel, i.e., the rest of the tribes, had all received their inheritance: for they did not wish for an inheritance on the other side of Jordan and farther on, if (כּי) their inheritance was assigned them on this side Jordan towards the east. טף, the children, including the women, and such other defenceless members of the family as were in need of protection (see at Exodus 12:37). 29), it is a regular custom with the nomads in Leja, to surround every place, where they pitch their tents, with a Sira, i.e., with an enclosure of stones about the height of a man, that the flocks may not be scattered in the night, and that they may know at once, from the noise made by the falling of the smaller stones which are laid at the top, if a wolf attempts to enter the enclosure during the night.)īy the building of towns, we are to understand the rebuilding and fortification of them. צאן גּדרת, folds or pens for flocks, that were built of stones piled up one upon another ( 1 Samuel 24:4). hasting) before the children of Israel, till we bring them to their place" (i.e., to Canaan). Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old TestamentThe persons thus reproved came near to Moses, and replied, "We will build sheep-folds here for our flocks, and towns for our children but we will equip ourselves hastily (חשׁים, part.
Until we have brought them unto their place to the land of Canaan, the place designed for them, and given unto them, to the possession of it, and a settlement in it:Īnd our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities, because of the inhabitants of the land where they might be safe from them, which they proposed to repair and refortify for the security of them, while they went with their brethren into the land of Canaan, to put them into possession of that, of which they made not the least doubt and so served to clear them of suspicion of any distrust they had of entering into and possessing the land, which might tend to discourage the people.
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This they said to free themselves from the charge of cowardice, and that they did not mean to sit still while their brethren went to war they were willing to put on their armour, and be ready to meet the enemy upon the borders of the land, and engage with them, and to expose their lives in favour of their brethren: Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleBut we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel.