Numbers 32:20 - Exposition

Before the Lord. Perhaps in a quasi-local sense, as the vanguard of the host before the sacred symbols of the Lord's presence (see on Numbers 10:21 , and Joshua 6:9 ). But since the same expression ( לִפְנֵי יְהֹוָה ) is twice used in a much vaguer sense in Numbers 32:22 , it is more probable ,that it only means "in the Lord's service, or "beneath his eye."