DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 3 Their march to Bashan, DEUTERONOMY 3:1. Og its king is put to flight; they possess his land, DEUTERONOMY 3:2; which is distributed to two tribes and half, DEUTERONOMY 3:12; who are commanded to assist their brethren to possess the land beyond Jordan, DEUTERONOMY 3:18. Moses enc... [ Continue Reading ]
FEAR HIM NOT, though he be of so frightful a look and stature, DEUTERONOMY 3:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
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ARGOB; a province within Bashan, or at least subject and belonging to Bashan, as appears from DEUTERONOMY 3:13 1 KINGS 4:13; called _Argob_ possibly from the name of a man, its former lord and owner.... [ Continue Reading ]
HIGH WALLS, GATES, AND BARS; which may encourage you in your attempt upon Canaan, notwithstanding the fenced cities which the spies told you of, and you must expect to find.... [ Continue Reading ]
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ON THIS SIDE JORDAN; so it was when Moses wrote this book, but afterward, when Israel passed over Jordan, it was called the land beyond Jordan.... [ Continue Reading ]
Elsewhere called _Mount Gilead_, and _Libanus_ or _Lebanon_, and here SHENIR, and _Sirion_, and, by abbreviation, _Sion_, DEUTERONOMY 4:48; which several names are given to this one mountain, partly by several people, and partly in regard of several tops and parts of it, whence SHENIR and _Hermon_ a... [ Continue Reading ]
GILEAD is sometimes taken largely for all the Israelites possessions beyond Jordan, and so it comprehends Bashan, but here more strictly for that part of it which lies in and near Mount Gilead, and so it is distinguished from Bashan and Argob.... [ Continue Reading ]
The other giants of Bashan were destroyed before; and therefore when Og was killed, the Israelites work was done. IN RABBATH OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON; where it might now be, either because the Ammonites in some former-battle with Og had taken it as a spoil; or because after Og's death the Ammonites... [ Continue Reading ]
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Geshuri, or Geshurites, a people towards the north of Canaan, 2 SAMUEL 3:3, 2 SAMUEL 15:8. See also JOSHUA 13:13. Maachathi; of whom see 2 SAMUEL 3:3, 2 SAMUEL 10:6. Unto this day: this must be put among those other passages which were not written by Moses, but added by those holy men who digested t... [ Continue Reading ]
i.e. The half part of Gilead, as appears from DEUTERONOMY 3:12,13. SEE POOLE ON "NUMBERS 32:40". Unto Machir, i.e. unto the children of Machir son of Manasseh, for Machir was now dead.... [ Continue Reading ]
Half the valley, or rather to the middle of the river; for the word rendered half signifies commonly middle; and the same Hebrew word signifying both a valley and a brook or river, it seems more reasonable to understand it of a river, as the same word is here rendered in the next foregoing clause of... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PLAIN; the low country towards Jordan. CHINNERETH; of which see on NUMBERS 34:11 JOSHUA 12:3. THE SEA OF THE PLAIN, i.e. that salt sea, as it here follows, which before that dreadful conflagration was a goodly plain, called _the plain of Jordan_, GENESIS 13:10. _Ashdoth-pisgah_; the proper name... [ Continue Reading ]
I COMMANDED YOU, to wit, the Reubenites and Gadites, mentioned DEUTERONOMY 3:16, to whom he now turns his speech by an apostrophe. MEET FOR THE WAR; in such number as your brethren shall judge necessary. See JOSHUA 1:14, JOSHUA 4:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
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REST; a peaceable and fixed possession.... [ Continue Reading ]
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For he supposed God's threatening might be conditional and reversible, as many others were. THAT GOODLY MOUNTAIN, or, _that blessed mountain_, which the Jews not improbably understand of that mountain on which the temple was to be built. For as Moses desired and determined to _prepare an habitation... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR YOUR SAKES; by occasion of your sins, which provoked me to unadvised words and carriages, PSALMS 106:32,33. See NUMBERS 20:12 DEUTERONOMY 31:2, DEUTERONOMY 34:4. Let it suffice thee that this is my pleasure and unalterable resolution. Compare 2 CORINTHIANS 12:8,9.... [ Continue Reading ]
PISGAH; of which see on NUMBERS 27:12. _Lift up thine eyes_ towards the land of Canaan and its several quarters.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHARGE JOSHUA; give him commission and authority, and a command to execute his trust, and conduct the people. STRENGTHEN HIM with exhortations and promises, and assurances of my presence and help, and of good success. HE SHALL GO OVER: it was not Moses, but Joshua or Jesus, that was to give the peop... [ Continue Reading ]
The house or temple of Peor, or of Baal-Peor, of which see NUMBERS 25:3, whence this place or city had its name.... [ Continue Reading ]