In Numbers chapter 32 we see how cattle-minded the two and a half tribes were, when God let them have their own way, and were even allowed to capture many thousands more of cattle, camels, sheep, asses and men from their enemies; but because they transgressed against God they were the first to be carried away captive to Assyria (Deut. 3:7; 1 Chron. 5:18-26; B.C. 1056). How stupid we may be to give the first place to self, business, prosperity and luxury.
It was due to unfaithfulness that God had to rend ten tribes from Solomon's kingdom (B. C. 975), and they in turn soon merited being "carried away out of their own land to Assyria," (2 Kings 17:23; B.C. 721).