Numbers Chapter 32 verse 37 Holy Bible
And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim,
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And the children of Reuben were the builders of Heshbon and Elealeh and Kiriathaim;
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-- And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elaleh, and Kirjathaim,
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And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,
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And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,
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The children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim,
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And the sons of Reuben have build Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 37. - The children of Reuben. Reuben had, at the time of the last census, been greater in number than Gad, and had been his leader on the march. He now begins to take that secondary position which was always to be his. Of the towns which he now occupied, the Moabites recovered many, while the most important of all (Heshbon) had to be surrendered to the Levites. He was indeed compensated with the southern settlements of the Gadites as far as the Wady Hesban, but even so his limits were very straitened as compared with those of Gad and of half Manasseh. Heshbon. Cf. chapter Numbers 21:25. In Joshua 21:39; 1 Chronicles 6:81, Heshbon is spoken of as belonging to Gad. This can only be explained on the supposition that the temporary settlements of the two tribes were really intermixed, and that Heshbon, as the old capital of that region, was jointly occupied. In after times it, too, together with Elealeh and Kirjathaim, Nebo, Baal-meon, and Sibmah, all fell into the hands of Moab (Isaiah 15:2, 4; Isaiah 16:8; Jeremiah 48:22, 23).
