Numbers 32:16-27

I include the whole of these verses in one view, because they include the terms of agreement between Moses and the Reubenites and Gadites. The representation, which is here given of them, serves to raise the people somewhat higher in our view; but certainly their choice of setting up their rest on this side Jordan, had in it much of a worldly, carnal spirit. Reader! never forget what the HOLY GHOST hath said, by the mouth of the Prophet: Arise ye and depart for this is not your rest, because it is polluted. Micah 2:10.