"If we have found favor in your sight," they said, "let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan."
Cross References
Numbers 32:4which the LORD conquered before the congregation of Israel, are suitable for livestock--and your servants have livestock."
Numbers 32:6But Moses asked the Gadites and Reubenites, "Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?
Treasury of Scripture
Why, said they, if we have found grace in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession, and bring us not over Jordan.
if we have
Genesis 19:19
Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:
Ruth 2:10
Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?
1 Samuel 20:3
And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.
bring us
Deuteronomy 1:37
Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.
Deuteronomy 3:25,26
I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon…
Joshua 7:7
And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
