Why did you sit still among the sheepfolds, to hear the whistling for the flocks? Among the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do what you have promised.”
Now the people of Reuben and the people of Gad had a very great number of livestock. And they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and behold, the place was a place for livestock. So the people of Gad and the people of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the congregation, “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon, the land that the Lord struck down before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.” And they said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Do not take us across the Jordan.”
Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.
For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord! Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:
I said, “Let me remember my song in the night; let me meditate in my heart.” Then my spirit made a diligent search:
Be angry, and do not sin; ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. Selah
the princes of Issachar came with Deborah, and Issachar faithful to Barak; into the valley they rushed at his heels. Among the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.
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