_THESE BE THE WORDS WHICH MOSES SPAKE UNTO ALL ISRAEL ON THIS SIDE JORDAN IN THE WILDERNESS, IN THE PLAIN OVER AGAINST THE RED SEA, BETWEEN PARAN, AND TOPHEL, AND LABAN, AND HAZEROTH, AND DIZAHAB._ These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel. The mental condition of the people generally in... [ Continue Reading ]
_(THERE ARE ELEVEN DAYS' JOURNEY FROM HOREB BY THE WAY OF MOUNT SEIR UNTO KADESH-BARNEA.)_ (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea), (see the notes at Numbers 33:1.) This statement, which is properly marked in our version as a parenthesis, was designed... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE FORTIETH YEAR, IN THE ELEVENTH MONTH, ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH, THAT MOSES SPAKE UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, ACCORDING UNTO ALL THAT THE LORD HAD GIVEN HIM IN COMMANDMENT UNTO THEM;_ In the fortieth year ... This impressive discourse, in which Moses reviewed all th... [ Continue Reading ]
_AFTER HE HAD SLAIN SIHON THE KING OF THE AMORITES, WHICH DWELT IN HESHBON, AND OG THE KING OF BASHAN, WHICH DWELT AT ASTAROTH IN EDREI:_ Astaroth - the royal residence of Og-so called from Astarte (the moon), the tutelary goddess of the Syrians; and he was slain at Edrei, now Edh'ra, the ruins of... [ Continue Reading ]
_ON THIS SIDE JORDAN, IN THE LAND OF MOAB, BEGAN MOSES TO DECLARE THIS LAW, SAYING,_ Began Moses to declare this law - declare, i:e., explain, this law. He follows the same method here that he elsewhere observes, namely, that of first enumerating the marvelous doings of God in behalf of his people,... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE LORD OUR GOD SPAKE UNTO US IN HOREB, SAYING, YE HAVE DWELT LONG ENOUGH IN THIS MOUNT:_ Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount. Horeb was the general name of a mountainous district-literally "the parched or burnt region" - whereas Sinai was the name appropriated to a particular peak. About a y... [ Continue Reading ]
_TURN YOU, AND TAKE YOUR JOURNEY, AND GO TO THE MOUNT OF THE AMORITES, AND UNTO ALL THE PLACES NIGH THEREUNTO, IN THE PLAIN, IN THE HILLS, AND IN THE VALE, AND IN THE SOUTH, AND BY THE SEA SIDE, TO THE LAND OF THE CANAANITES, AND UNTO LEBANON, UNTO THE GREAT RIVER, THE RIVER EUPHRATES._ The mount o... [ Continue Reading ]
_BEHOLD, I HAVE SET THE LAND BEFORE YOU: GO IN AND POSSESS THE LAND WHICH THE LORD SWARE UNTO YOUR FATHERS, ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB, TO GIVE UNTO THEM AND TO THEIR SEED AFTER THEM._ The land before you - literally, before your faces; it is accessible; there is no impediment to your occupation. Th... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I SPAKE UNTO YOU AT THAT TIME, SAYING, I AM NOT ABLE TO BEAR YOU MYSELF ALONE:_ I spake unto you at that time - a little before their arrival in Horeb. Moses addresses that new generation as the representatives of their fathers, in whose sight and hearing all the transactions he recounts took... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN WE DEPARTED FROM HOREB, WE WENT THROUGH ALL THAT GREAT AND TERRIBLE WILDERNESS, WHICH YE SAW BY THE WAY OF THE MOUNTAIN OF THE AMORITES, AS THE LORD OUR GOD COMMANDED US; AND WE CAME TO KADESH-BARNEA._ We went through all that great and terrible wilderness - of Paran, which included the d... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND YE CAME NEAR UNTO ME EVERY ONE OF YOU, AND SAID, WE WILL SEND MEN BEFORE US, AND THEY SHALL SEARCH US OUT THE LAND, AND BRING US WORD AGAIN BY WHAT WAY WE MUST GO UP, AND INTO WHAT CITIES WE SHALL COME._ Ye came ... and said, We will send men. The proposal to despatch spies emanated from the p... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD HEARD THE VOICE OF YOUR WORDS, AND WAS WROTH, AND SWARE, SAYING,_ The Lord ... was wroth. In consequence of this aggravated offence-unbelief followed by open rebellion-the Israelites were doomed, in the righteous judgment of God, to a life of wandering in that dreary wilderness, until... [ Continue Reading ]
_ALSO THE LORD WAS ANGRY WITH ME FOR YOUR SAKES, SAYING, THOU ALSO SHALT NOT GO IN THITHER._ Also the Lord was angry with me for your sakes. This statement seems to indicate that it was on this occasion Moses was condemned to share the fate of the people. But we know that it was several years after... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT JOSHUA THE SON OF NUN, WHICH STANDETH BEFORE THEE, HE SHALL GO IN THITHER: ENCOURAGE HIM: FOR HE SHALL CAUSE ISRAEL TO INHERIT IT._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_MOREOVER YOUR LITTLE ONES, WHICH YE SAID SHOULD BE A PREY, AND YOUR CHILDREN, WHICH IN THAT DAY HAD NO KNOWLEDGE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL, THEY SHALL GO IN THITHER, AND UNTO THEM WILL I GIVE IT, AND THEY SHALL POSSESS IT._ Your children, which in that day had no knowledge. All ancient versions read '... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT AS FOR YOU, TURN YOU, AND TAKE YOUR JOURNEY INTO THE WILDERNESS BY THE WAY OF THE RED SEA._ Turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness. This command they disregarded; and determined, in spite of the earnest remonstrances of Moses, to force an onward passage. They attempted to cross th... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO YE ABODE IN KADESH MANY DAYS, ACCORDING UNTO THE DAYS THAT YE ABODE THERE._ So ye abode in Kadesh many days. That place had been the site of their encampment during the absence of the spies, which lasted 40 days; and it is supposed from this verse that they prolonged their stay there after thei... [ Continue Reading ]