Num 32:18-33 | TSK

‏ Numbers 32:18-33

this land Deut 3:12-18; Josh 1:15, Josh 13:8, Josh 13:29-32, Josh 22:9

if ye will Lev 26:14-46; Deut 28:15-68

be sure your sin If the persons concerned prevaricated, and so imposed on men, or if they afterwards refused to fulfil their engagement, God would most certainly detect and expose their wickedness, and inflict condign punishment upon them. Of all the ways, says Dr. South, to be taken for the prevention of that great plague of mankind, Sin, there is none so rational and efficacious as to confute and baffle those motives by which men are induced to embrace it; and among all such motives, the heart of man seems to be chiefly overpowered and prevailed upon by two, viz. secrecy in committing sin, and impunity with respect to its consequences. Accordingly, Moses, in this chapter, having to deal with a company of men suspected of a base and fraudulent design, though couched under a very fair pretence, as most such designs are, endeavours to quash it in its very conception, by secretly applying himself to encounter those secret motives and arguments, which he knew were the most likely to encourage them in it. And this he does very briefly, but effectually, by assuring them, that how covertly and artificially soever they might carry on their dark project, yet their sin would infallibly find them out. Though the subject and occasion of these words are indeed particular, yet the design of them is manifestly of an universal import, as reaching the case of all transgressors, in their first entrance on any sinful act or course. Gen 4:7, Gen 44:16; Ps 90:8, Ps 139:11, Ps 140:11; Prov 13:21; Isa 3:11; Isa 59:1-2, Isa 59:12; Rom 2:9; 1Cor 4:5

Num 32:16, Num 32:34-42

Josh 1:13-14

thy servants Josh 4:12

armed Num 32:17; 2Cor 10:4-5; Eph 6:10-18; 2Tim 4:7-8

as my lord Num 11:28, Num 12:11, Num 36:2

Josh 1:13

Num 32:20-23

Josh 22:19

Moses Num 32:1; Deut 3:12-17, Deut 29:8; Josh 12:6, Josh 13:8-14, Josh 22:4

half the Num 34:14; 1Chr 5:18, 1Chr 12:31, 1Chr 26:32

the kingdom Num 21:23-35; Deut 2:30-33, Deut 3:1-8; Ps 135:10-11, Ps 136:18-21