Numbers 32:16 ASV

¹⁴  And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Jehovah toward Israel.

¹⁵  For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye will destroy all this people.

¹⁶  And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:

¹⁷  but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

¹⁸  We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.