_THEN WE TURNED, AND TOOK OUR JOURNEY INTO THE WILDERNESS BY THE WAY OF THE RED SEA, AS THE LORD SPAKE UNTO ME: AND WE COMPASSED MOUNT SEIR MANY DAYS._ Then we turned, and took our journey ... by the way of the Red sea. After their unsuccessful attack upon the Canaanites, the Israelites broke up th... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO ME, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND COMMAND THOU THE PEOPLE, SAYING, YE ARE TO PASS THROUGH THE COAST OF YOUR BRETHREN THE CHILDREN OF ESAU, WHICH DWELL IN SEIR; AND THEY SHALL BE AFRAID OF YOU: TAKE YE GOOD HEED UNTO YOURSELVES THEREFORE:_ The children of Esau ... shall be afraid of you. The same people who had haughtily repell... [ Continue Reading ]
_MEDDLE NOT WITH THEM; FOR I WILL NOT GIVE YOU OF THEIR LAND, NO, NOT SO MUCH AS A FOOT BREADTH; BECAUSE I HAVE GIVEN MOUNT SEIR UNTO ESAU FOR A POSSESSION._ Meddle not with them - i:e., "which dwell in Seir" (Deuteronomy 2:4; Deuteronomy 32:8: cf. Genesis 36:8), now Esh-sherah, a rugged highland c... [ Continue Reading ]
_YE SHALL BUY MEAT OF THEM FOR MONEY, THAT YE MAY EAT; AND YE SHALL ALSO BUY WATER OF THEM FOR MONEY, THAT YE MAY DRINK._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR THE LORD THY GOD HATH BLESSED THEE IN ALL THE WORKS OF THY HAND: HE KNOWETH THY WALKING THROUGH THIS GREAT WILDERNESS: THESE FORTY YEARS THE LORD THY GOD HATH BEEN WITH THEE; THOU HAST LACKED NOTHING._ Thou hast lacked nothing (see the notes at Deut. 8:24; Deuteronomy 29:4).... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN WE PASSED BY FROM OUR BRETHREN THE CHILDREN OF ESAU, WHICH DWELT IN SEIR, THROUGH THE WAY OF THE PLAIN FROM ELATH, AND FROM EZIONGABER, WE TURNED AND PASSED BY THE WAY OF THE WILDERNESS OF MOAB._ We passed ... through the way of the plain, х_ HAA-`ARAABAAH_ (H6160); Septuagint, Araba] - t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO ME, DISTRESS NOT THE MOABITES, NEITHER CONTEND WITH THEM IN BATTLE: FOR I WILL NOT GIVE THEE OF THEIR LAND FOR A POSSESSION; BECAUSE I HAVE GIVEN AR UNTO THE CHILDREN OF LOT FOR A POSSESSION._ The Lord said ... Distress not the Moabites. Their relations with Edom compelled t... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE EMIMS DWELT THEREIN IN TIMES PAST, A PEOPLE GREAT, AND MANY, AND TALL, AS THE ANAKIMS;_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW RISE UP, SAID I, AND GET YOU OVER THE BROOK ZERED. AND WE WENT OVER THE BROOK ZERED._ Now rise up ... and get you over the brook Zered. The southern border of Moab, Zered (woody), now wady Ahsy, separates the modern district of Kerak from Jebal, and indeed forms a natural division of the count... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SPACE IN WHICH WE CAME FROM KADESH-BARNEA, UNTIL WE WERE COME OVER THE BROOK ZERED, WAS THIRTY AND EIGHT YEARS; UNTIL ALL THE GENERATION OF THE MEN OF WAR WERE WASTED OUT FROM AMONG THE HOST, AS_ _ THE LORD SWARE UNTO THEM._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN ALL THE MEN OF WAR WERE CONSUMED AND DEAD FROM AMONG THE PEOPLE,_ All the men of war were consumed and dead. The outbreak at Kadesh on the false report of the spies had been the occasion of the fatal decree by which God doomed the whole grown-up population to die in the wi... [ Continue Reading ]
_THAT THE LORD SPAKE UNTO ME, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOU ART TO PASS OVER THROUGH AR, THE COAST OF MOAB, THIS DAY:_ Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab. Ar, called in later times Rabbah, was the capital of Moab, and situated 25 miles south of the Arnon, on the banks of a small but shady stream-the Beni-Hamed, now Rabba-between Kerek... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THOU COMEST NIGH OVER AGAINST THE CHILDREN OF AMMON, DISTRESS THEM NOT, NOR MEDDLE WITH THEM: FOR I WILL NOT GIVE THEE OF THE LAND OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON ANY POSSESSION; BECAUSE I HAVE GIVEN IT UNTO THE CHILDREN OF LOT FOR A POSSESSION._ When thou comest nigh over against the children o... [ Continue Reading ]
_(THAT ALSO WAS ACCOUNTED A LAND OF GIANTS: GIANTS DWELT THEREIN IN OLD TIME; AND THE AMMONITES CALL THEM ZAMZUMMIMS;_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_A PEOPLE GREAT, AND MANY, AND TALL, AS THE ANAKIMS; BUT THE LORD DESTROYED THEM BEFORE THEM; AND THEY SUCCEEDED THEM, AND DWELT IN THEIR STEAD:_ But the Lord destroyed them. The extinction of that branch of the ancient Rephaim, which was known by the name of the Zuzim, and provincially Zamzummim,... [ Continue Reading ]
_AS HE DID TO THE CHILDREN OF ESAU, WHICH DWELT IN SEIR, WHEN HE DESTROYED THE HORIMS FROM BEFORE THEM; AND THEY SUCCEEDED THEM, AND DWELT IN THEIR STEAD EVEN UNTO THIS DAY:_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE AVIMS WHICH DWELT IN HAZERIM, EVEN UNTO AZZAH, THE CAPHTORIMS, WHICH CAME FORTH OUT OF CAPHTOR, DESTROYED THEM, AND DWELT IN THEIR STEAD.)_ And the Avims - the aborigines of the district. WHICH DWELT IN HAZERIM - i:e., in nomadic villages. EVEN UNTO AZZAH, х_ `AZAAH_ (H5804), strong, po... [ Continue Reading ]
_RISE YE UP, TAKE YOUR JOURNEY, AND PASS OVER THE RIVER ARNON: BEHOLD, I HAVE GIVEN INTO THINE HAND SIHON THE AMORITE, KING OF HESHBON, AND HIS LAND: BEGIN TO POSSESS IT, AND CONTEND WITH HIM IN BATTLE._ Rise ye up ... and pass over the river Arnon. At its mouth, this stream is 82 feet wide, and 4... [ Continue Reading ]
_THIS DAY WILL I BEGIN TO PUT THE DREAD OF THEE AND THE FEAR OF THEE UPON THE NATIONS THAT ARE UNDER THE WHOLE HEAVEN, WHO SHALL HEAR REPORT OF THEE, AND SHALL TREMBLE, AND BE IN ANGUISH BECAUSE OF THEE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_(AS THE CHILDREN OF ESAU WHICH DWELL IN SEIR, AND THE MOABITES WHICH DWELL IN AR, DID UNTO ME;) UNTIL I SHALL PASS OVER JORDAN INTO THE LAND WHICH THE LORD OUR GOD GIVETH US._ And the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me. This passage represents the Moabites as brotherly and hospitable (see, ho... [ Continue Reading ]