Teks -- Numbers 32:6 (NET)

Moses’ Response

32:6 Moses said to the Gadites and the Reubenites, “Must your brothers go to war while you remain here?

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Num 32:6 - Ye sit here

In ease and peace, while your brethren are engaged in a bloody war.

Calvin: Num 32:6 - And Moses said unto the children of Gad

6.And Moses said unto the children of Gad So sharp and severe a reproof shews us the greatness of the wrong: for neither did inconsiderate warmth carry away Moses into such violent anger, nor did he fall into error, so as to deliver his opinion on a point which he did not well understand. He knew, therefore, what the sons of Gad and Reuben asked; and hence he inveighed against them thus vehemently, because they desired to lacerate the body of the Church by this wicked severance. He begins by expostulating with them with regard to their sinful and unreasonable covetousness, in that they sought to indulge in idleness, when their brethren were about to march through a hostile land; for they were possessed of no rightful superiority, so as to throw upon the others all the labors, perils, and burdens of the war. Since, therefore, God had imposed the same condition upon all, ²¹³ it was not right that part of them should be exempted from it, as if by privilege. More severely, however, is their ingratitude and perverseness towards God chastised, than their injustice towards their brethren, whilst he alleges to their reproach, that thus the hearts of the children of Israel would be broken, ²¹⁴ so that they wouht refuse to obey the call of God.

TSK: Num 32:6 - shall ye sit here

shall ye sit here : 2Sa 11:11; 1Co 13:5; Phi 2:4

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Num 32:6

In case and peace, whilst your brethren are engaged in a bloody war. Their words were ambiguous, and Moses thought this to be an act of unbelief and sloth and self-love and policy.

Gill: Num 32:6 - And Moses said unto the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben // shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?

And Moses said unto the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben,.... Being displeased with their motion, as his following discourse shows, it having at first sight an appearance of covetousness and cowardice:

shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here? it is not reasonable that your brethren should be left by you and engage in a war with your common enemies, to dispossess them of their land before they can settle in it and you remain here easy and quiet in the possession of a fruitful country.