Numbers 32:15-17

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹⁵ For if you turn from following Him, He will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all this people.

¹⁶ But they came near to him and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our flocks and walled settlements for our little ones.

¹⁷ But we will be armed and ready to go before the Israelites until we have brought them to their place. Our little ones shall dwell in the fortified settlements because of the people of the land.