Quotes About Unity

Send into battle a thousand men from each tribe of Israel.”

So a thousand men were recruited from each tribe of Israel—twelve thousand armed for war.

And Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the congregation went to meet them outside the camp.

and said, “Your servants have counted the soldiers under our command, and not one of us is missing.

But Moses asked the Gadites and Reubenites, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?

But we will arm ourselves and be ready to go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them into their place. Meanwhile, our little ones will remain in the fortified cities for protection from the inhabitants of the land.

We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has taken possession of his inheritance.

Moses replied, “If you will do this—if you will arm yourselves before the LORD for battle,

and if every one of your armed men crosses the Jordan before the LORD, until He has driven His enemies out before Him,

The Gadites and Reubenites said to Moses, “Your servants will do just as our lord commands.

And Moses said to them, “If the Gadites and Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, with every man armed for battle before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you are to give them the land of Gilead as a possession.

But if they do not arm themselves and go across with you, then they must accept their possession among you in the land of Canaan.”

The Gadites and Reubenites replied, “As the LORD has spoken to your servants, so we will do.

Appoint one leader from each tribe to distribute the land.

But if they marry any of the men from the other tribes of Israel, their inheritance will be withdrawn from the portion of our fathers and added to the tribe into which they marry. So our allotted inheritance would be taken away.

They married within the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained within the tribe of their fatherís clan.

At that time I said to you, “I cannot carry the burden for you alone.

The plan seemed good to me, so I selected twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.

At that time I commanded you: “The LORD your God has given you this land to possess. All your men of valor are to cross over, armed for battle, ahead of your brothers, the Israelites.

until the LORD gives rest to your brothers as He has to you, and they too have taken possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving them across the Jordan. Then each of you may return to the possession I have given you.”

You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.

Know therefore this day and take to heart that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.

He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.

Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One.