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Numbers 32:2 (NASB) [SUP]2 [/SUP] the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came and spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the leaders of the congregation, saying,
Numbers 32:5 (NASB) [SUP]5 [/SUP] They said, "If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession; do not take us across the Jordan."
9For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.
11Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
Numbers 32:13 (NASB) [SUP]13 [/SUP] "So the LORD'S anger burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the entire generation of those who had done evil in the sight of the LORD was destroyed.
Numbers 32:16 (NASB) [SUP]16 [/SUP] Then they came near to him and said, "We will build here sheepfolds for our livestock and cities for our little ones;
17But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.