The Ksav Sofer explains that they said when will these leaders pass on and we will take over.
It does not sound too good to wait for them to die. So he says they did not want to get married and have children as we see from Moshe Rabbenu that leaders don’t have any time to bring up their children properly, so they did not want to have any children because they will eventually be the leaders. This type of thinking is an אש זרה, an outside fire where a person does not rely on Hashem’s help as King Chezkiyah thought when having Menasheh.
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