Numbers 32:6

6 Moses asked the tribes of Gad and Reuben, "Are you going to stay here while the rest of the Israelites go to war?

Numbers 32:6 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 32:6

And Moses said unto the children of Gad, and to the children of
Reuben
Being displeased with their motion, as his following discourse shows, it having at first sight an appearance of covetousness and cowardice:

shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
it is not reasonable that your brethren should be left by you and engage in a war with your common enemies, to dispossess them of their land before they can settle in it and you remain here easy and quiet in the possession of a fruitful country.

Numbers 32:6 In-Context

4 the land that the LORD won for the community of Israel, is a good place for livestock. Gentlemen, we have livestock.

5 Please give us this land as our property. Don't make us cross the Jordan River."

6 Moses asked the tribes of Gad and Reuben, "Are you going to stay here while the rest of the Israelites go to war?

7 That might discourage them from entering the land the LORD has given them.

8 That's what your ancestors did when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to take a look at the land.