_Sea, encamping again at Mosera. When they were at Asiongaber, they were ordered to go to the north, by the mountains of Idumea or of Seir. Being arrived at Cades, they attempted to penetrate into Chanaan, by the road of the spies, but were repulsed. Upon which they asked leave of the Idumeans to pa... [ Continue Reading ]
_Stir. Hebrew gur, meddle not, wage not war, do not molest, &c. The Idumeans near Mount Hor, afterwards refused the Hebrews a passage, and the necessaries of life, though their brethren in Mount Seir had granted them the latter, while they passed quietly along their borders, ver. 28. See Numbers xx.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Meats, if they wanted any other sort, besides manna. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Knoweth, or approveth, directing by his loving providence, Psalm i. 6., and xxxvi. 18._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Moabites. They allowed the Hebrews to pass, as the Idumeans had done; (ver. 29,) but they treated them with no particular marks of affection, (chap. xxiii. 3,) nor would they suffer them to go across their country, Judges xi. 17. --- Ar is sometimes called Rabbah Moab, "the great city of the Moabit... [ Continue Reading ]
_Emim signifies "the terrible," or "men of cubits or length." See Numbers xiii. 33. They had been probably ruined in the war of Chodorlahomor, (Genesis xiv. 5,) a little before the birth of Moab. (Calmet) --- But those few who remained, were sufficient to strike the beholders with terror, as they we... [ Continue Reading ]
_Giants. Hebrew Raphaim, which Grotius thinks is a word retained from the primitive language. It sometimes denotes giants, and those who groan in hell, on account of the great iniquity of the Raphaim, Job. xxvi. 5. Og was one of their descendants, and inhabited the same country, which they had occup... [ Continue Reading ]
_Gave him, on the east side of the Jordan. They had not yet taken possession of Chanaan. But Moses foresees that they shortly will; and in this sense we may translate, "Esau dwelt there, as Israel will in the land," &c., ver. 29. The neighbouring nations could not rationally object to their coming,... [ Continue Reading ]
_Years. They had continued another year at Sinai, and some months at least at Cades-barne; so that the few remaining months of the 40 years' sojournment, were spent in conquering the kingdoms east of the Jordan. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Zomzommim, means "wicked wretches," famous for their stature, &c. (Menochius) --- They are probably the same nation as the Zuzim, Genesis xiv. 5._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Enacims. See on this race of giants what has been said, Numbers xiii. 23. They made place for the Zomzommim, as the latter did for the Ammonites. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Horrhites, so called because they dwelt in caverns. (St. Jerome)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Haserim, the same as Haseroth, Numbers xxxiii. 17. --- Gaza belonged to the Philistines. The intermediate country, or the south part of Chanaan, occupied by the Hevites, was seized by invaders from the isle of Cyprus, (Hebrew, Caphtorum; Calmet; Genesis x. 14,) or from Egypt, which the Nile interse... [ Continue Reading ]
_Arise. God did not forbid Moses to ask for leave to pass through the land quietly, as the latter did; (ver. 26.) but he gives him to understand that his demand will be rejected with disdain, and he is at liberty to attack this insolent king, and thus to commence his conquests._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Heaven. All who hear of thy exploits, will have cause to fear. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Cademoth, "to the east," of the Arnon. There was a city of the same name on the other side of the banks, which belonged to Sehon, and was given afterwards to the Levites, 1 Paralipomenon vi. 79. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_As, &c. These nations had only permitted them to pass along their borders, and furnished them, through fear, (ver. 4,) with the necessaries of life. Sehon will not even grant so much._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hardened, &c. That is, in punishment of his past sins, he left him to his own stubborn and perverse disposition, which drew him to his ruin. See the note on Exodus vii. 3. (Challoner) --- God did not soften his heart, (Menochius) nor make him see the danger to which he was exposing his dominions, b... [ Continue Reading ]
_Killing, according to God's express command, chap. xx. 16. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Jeboc, towards its source: for both sides of the torrent were taken by the Hebrews from the kings Sehon and Og, who had already driven the Ammonites farther into the mountains, on the east. (Haydock) --- When these demanded the conquered country to be restored to them, Jephte shewed that their clai... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER II.... [ Continue Reading ]