13Then the Lord was angry with Israel, and he made them wanderers in the waste land for forty years? till all that generation who had done evil in the eyes of the Lord was dead.
14And now you have come to take the place of your fathers, another generation of sinners, increasing the wrath of the Lord against Israel.
15For if you are turned away from him, he will send them wandering again in the waste land; and you will be the cause of the destruction of all this people.
16Then they came to him, and said, We will make safe places for our cattle here, and towns for our little ones;
17But we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel till we have taken them to their place: but our little ones will be safe in the walled towns against the people of the land.
18We will not come back to our houses till every one of the children of Israel has come into his heritage.
19For we will not have our heritage with them on the other side of Jordan and forward; because our heritage has come to us on this side of Jordan to the east.
