Numbers 32 - Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible

The tribes of Reuben and Gad request an inheritance on the east of Jordan.

Here is a proposal made by the Reubenites and Gadites, that the land lately conquered might be allotted to them. Two things common in the world might lead these tribes to make this choice; the lust of the eye, and the pride of life. There was much amiss in the principle they went upon; they consulted their own private convenience more than the public good. Thus to the present time, many seek their own things more than the things of Jesus Christ; and are led by worldly interests and

advantages to take up short of the heavenly Canaan. (Nu 32:6-15)