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Deuteronomy 2

Deuteronomy 2:1

DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 2 Their march from Kadesh-barnea, DEUTERONOMY 2:1. A charge that they trouble not the Edomites, DEUTERONOMY 2:4,5; nor the Moabites, DEUTERONOMY 2:9; nor the Ammonites, DEUTERONOMY 2:19. But are encouraged to fight the Amorites: they put them to flight, and take possession of the... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 2:4

THROUGH THE COAST, or, _by or near the coast or border_; for they did not pass through their borders, as it is said, NUMBERS 20:21. And the particle beth doth oft signify by or near, as GENESIS 37:13 JOSHUA 5:13 JUDGES 8:5 JEREMIAH 32:7. Thus that difference may be reconciled, which others reconcile... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 2:6

BUY MEAT OF THEM; for though the manna did yet rain upon them, they were not forbidden to buy other meats when they had opportunity, but only were forbidden greedily to hunger after them when they could not obtain them. BUY WATER OF THEM; for water in those parts was scarce, and therefore private pe... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 2:7

By God's blessing thou art able to buy thy conveniences, and therefore thy theft and rapine will be inexcusable, because without any pretence of necessity. HE KNOWETH, Heb. _he hath known_, i.e. observed, or regarded with care and kindness, which that word oft notes, as PSALMS 1:6, PSALMS 31:7; whic... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 2:8

EZION-GABER; of which see NUMBERS 33:35, which may be either that place upon the Red Sea, 1 KINGS 9:26, or another of the same name. WE TURNED, to wit, from our direct road which lay through Edom's land.... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 2:9

AR, the chief city of the Moabites, NUMBERS 21:15,28, here put for the whole country, which depended upon it. THE CHILDREN OF LOT; so called to signify that this preservation was not for their sakes, for they were a wicked people; but for Lot's sake, whose memory God yet honours.... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 2:10

EMIMS; men terrible for stature and strength, as their very name imports; see GENESIS 14:5; whose expulsion by the Moabites is here noted as a great encouragement to the Israelites, for whose sake he would much more drive out the wicked and accursed Canaanites.... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 2:12

OBJECT. God had not yet given it unto them. ANSW. 1. The past tense is here put for the future, _will give_, after the manner of the prophets. 2. Things are oft said to be done when they are only resolved, or decreed, or attempted to be done, in which sense Reuben is said to deliver Joseph, GENESI... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 2:23

CAPHTORIMS, a people akin to the Philistines, GENESIS 10:14, and confederate with them in this enterprise, and so dwelling together, and by degrees were probably united together by marriages or other ways, and became one people, the Caphtorims being at last swallowed up in the Philistines. See JEREM... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 2:25

UNDER THE WHOLE HEAVEN; which is a synecdoche and an hyperbole, but is explained by the following words, which restrain the sentence to those nations that heard of them.... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 2:26

KEDEMOTH; so called from a city of that name, JOSHUA 13:18; and called _Jeshimon_, NUMBERS 21:20. WITH WORDS OF PEACE; with offers of peace, which they refusing, their destruction was highly just and reasonable.... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 2:28

Or, _with my foot-men_, or _with my company which are on foot_; which is added significantly, because if their army had consisted as much of horsemen as many other armies did, their passage through his land might have been more mischievous and dangerous; but they were generally on foot.... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 2:29

OBJECT. The king of Edom, i.e. of the children of Esau, did not grant them passage, NUM 20. ANSW. They did permit them to pass quietly by the borders, though not through the heart of their land; and in their passage the people sold them meat and drink, being, it seems, more kind to them than their k... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 2:34

By God's command, these being a part of those people who were devoted by the Lord of life and death to utter destruction for their abominable wickedness. See DEUTERONOMY 7:2, DEUTERONOMY 20:16.... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 2:36

AROER was in the border of Moab, but now in the hands of the Amorites. BY THE RIVER, Heb. _in the river_, wherewith it was encompassed, NUMBERS 21:15,28 JOS 12:2 13:9. He speaks exclusively, for this was Ar, which now was in the Moabites jurisdiction, above, DEUTERONOMY 2:9.... [ Continue Reading ]

Deuteronomy 2:37

OF THE RIVER JABBOK, i.e. beyond _Jabbok_; for that was the border of the Ammonites, JOSHUA 12:2. OBJECT. _Half the land of the Ammonites is_ said to be _given to the tribe of Gad_, JOSHUA 13:25. ANSW. This is true of that half of it which the Amorites had taken from them, but not of the other half,... [ Continue Reading ]

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