Deuteronomy 2:1-15
FROM KADESH TO THE BROOK ZERED... [ Continue Reading ]
FROM KADESH TO THE BROOK ZERED... [ Continue Reading ]
Then we turned and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea, that is, in the direction toward the Red Sea, Numbers 14:25, as the Lord spake unto me; AND WE COMPASSED MOUNT SEIR MANY DAYS, ever moving around in the neighborhood of this mountain range, in the Wilderness of Paran,... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Lord spake unto me, saying,... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye have compassed this mountain long enough, after they had been journeying back and forth some thirty-seven years; TURN YOU NORTHWARD, back once more to the edge of the Wilderness of Paran.... [ Continue Reading ]
And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast (boundary) OF YOUR BRETHREN, THE CHILDREN OF ESAU, the half-brother of Isaac, WHICH DWELL IN SEIR, in the country south of the Dead Sea; AND THEY SHALL BE AFRAID OF YOU, since the fear of the Lord had fallen upon all the nations r... [ Continue Reading ]
meddle not with them, that is, do not attack 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. It was for this reason that Israel did not react to the challenge of the king of Edom with an attack, Numbers 20:14... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that is, something to eat, food, THAT YE MAY EAT; AND YE SHALL ALSO BUY WATER OF THEM FOR MONEY, THAT YE MAY DRINK.... [ Continue Reading ]
For the Lord, thy God, hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand, not only in their herds and their flocks, but in whatever industry they found occasion to carry on in the wilderness; HE KNOWETH THY WALKING THROUGH THIS GREAT WILDERNESS, and his knowing involved care and protection. THESE FORTY... [ Continue Reading ]
And when we passed by from our brethren, the children of Esau, which they did by marching around their country, WHICH DWELT IN SEIR, THROUGH THE WAY OF THE PLAIN FROM ELATH, on the shore of the Elanitic Gulf, AND FROM EZION-GABER, later the harbor of Solomon at the head of this body of water, WE TUR... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Lord said unto me, Distress not, use no hostile attitude toward, do not attack, 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, a city near the boundary of Moab and here representative of the entire country,... [ Continue Reading ]
The Emims dwelt therein in times past, in the land now occupied by Moab, A PEOPLE GREAT, AND MANY, AND TALL AS THE ANAKIMS;... [ Continue Reading ]
which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Horims, or Horites, Genesis 14:6; Genesis 36:20, ALSO DWELT IN SEIR BEFORETIME; BUT THE CHILDREN OF ESAU SUCCEEDED THEM WHEN THEY HAD DESTROYED THEM FROM BEFORE THEM, AND DWELT IN THEIR STEAD, in the land formerly occupied by the cliff-dwellers; AS ISRAEL DID UNTO THE LAND OF HIS POSSESSION, the... [ Continue Reading ]
Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered, the stream which formed the general southern border of Moabitis, Numbers 21:12. AND WE WENT OVER THE BROOK ZERED.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, after the return of the spies, 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, Numbers 26:65, AS THE LORD SWARE UNTO THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
For, indeed, the hand of the Lord was against them to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed. The judgment of the Lord was carried out with unrelenting severity. He is a jealous God even today, and often strikes down the mockers in fury as a warning to all men.... [ Continue Reading ]
So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people, the punishment of God having struck them according to His word,... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DEFEAT OF SIHON... [ Continue Reading ]
that the Lord spake unto me, saying,... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day;... [ Continue Reading ]
and when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, whose territory was chiefly east and northeast of that of the Amorites, DISTRESS THEM NOT, NOR MEDDLE WITH THEM, assume no hostile attitude nor make a show of attacking them; FOR I WILL NOT GIVE THEE OF THE LAND OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON A... [ Continue Reading ]
(That also was accounted a land of giants before its occupation by the children of Ammon; GIANTS DWELT THEREIN IN OLD TIME; AND THE AMMONITES CALL THEM ZAMZUMMIM, literally, "a humming, noisy people," possibly the same as the Zusim, Genesis 14:5, or related to them;... [ Continue Reading ]
a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim. But the Lord destroyed them before them, the Ammonites, His object being to lead the latter to repentance, to cause them to seek the true God, the tradition of whom was handed down to them from their fathers, AND THEY SUCCEEDED THEM AND DWELT IN THE... [ 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;... [ Continue Reading ]
and the Avims, which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, in the southwestern corner of Canaan, THE CAPHTORIM, WHICH CAME FORTH OUT OF CAPHTOR, and bore the name of their progenitor, Genesis 10:14, DESTROYED THEM, AND DWELT IN THEIR STEAD.) This notice having been inserted for the sake of orientation,... [ Continue Reading ]
Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon, the southern boundary of the land of the Amorites; BEHOLD, I HAVE GIVEN IN TO THINE HAND SIHON, THE AMORITE, KING OF HESHBON, AND HIS LAND; BEGIN TO POSSESS IT, in modern English, go ahead and take it, AND CONTEND WITH HIM IN BATTLE.... [ 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, not only the Canaanites, but all the other nations whom the news of their advance would reach, WHO SHALL HEAR REPORT OF THEE, AND SHALL TREMBLE, AND BE IN ANGUISH BECAUSE OF THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
And I sent messengers out of the Wilderness of Kedemoth, on the southeastern boundary of the Amorite territory, where there was an easy passage over the Arnon, UNTO SIHON, KING OF HESHBON, WITH WORDS OF PEACE, in order to give him an opportunity to decide for himself and to avoid an offense against... [ Continue Reading ]
Let me pass through thy land. I will go along by the highway; I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left. Cf Numbers 21:21.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou shalt sell me meat, food, FOR MONEY, THAT I MAY EAT, AND GIVE ME WATER FOR MONEY, THAT I MAY DRINK; ONLY I WILL PASS THROUGH ON MY FEET, without any delay,... [ 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.... [ Continue Reading ]
But Sihon, king of Heshbon, would not let us pass by him, through his land; FOR THE LORD, THY GOD, HARDENED HIS SPIRIT, AND MADE HIS HEART OBSTINATE, THAT HE MIGHT DELIVER HIM INTO THY HAND, AS APPEARETH THIS DAY. All obduracy on the part of man is as much a deed of man's freedom, of his own willful... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee; begin to possess that thou mayest inherit his land.... [ Continue Reading ]
Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz, Numbers 21:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Lord, our God, delivered him before us; and we smote him and his sons and all his people, Numbers 21:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men and the women and the little ones of every city; we left none to remain, for it was a war of extermination;... [ Continue Reading ]
only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.... [ Continue Reading ]
From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, in the extreme southern part of the territory, AND FROM THE CITY THAT IS BY THE RIVER, Ar or Areopolis, EVEN UNTO GILEAD, the southern boundary of which, generally speaking, was the Jabbok, THERE WAS NOT ONE CITY TOO STRONG FOR US, literally,... [ Continue Reading ]
only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, toward the east and north, NOR UNTO THE CITIES IN THE MOUNTAINS, the mountainous district of Ammonitis, NOR UNTO WHATSOEVER THE LORD, OUR GOD, FORBADE US. Note that the Lord spared the Edomites, the... [ Continue Reading ]