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. Ver. 1. _Then we turned,_] viz., When we had bought our wit, and had paid for our learning, by our late discomfiture.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. Ver. 3. _Turn you northward._] Thus God's word was their director unto all places, and in all actions. In which respect these histories of holy Scripture excel all human histories in the world, as is well observed. That which they tel... [ 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: Ver. 4. _Which dwell in Seir._] To distinguish them from the Amalekites, Esau's seed too,... [ 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. Ver. 5. _Because I have given mount Seir._] Thus the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance. Deu 32:8 And a man must needs have s... [ 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._ Ver. 6. _Buy meat of them for money._] "Money answereth all things," saith Solomon. Ecc 10:19 Money is the monarch of the world, saith another, and bears most mastery. But that... [ 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. Ver. 7. _For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee,_] viz., With money, to fetch thee in other... [ 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. Ver. 9. _Because I have given Ar._] The royal city, set upon a hill. Numbers 21:... [ Continue Reading ]
The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; Ver. 10. _Many and tall are the Anakims._] And if God cast out those Emims, or terrible ones, before the Moabites, will he not much more cast out these Anakims before the Israelites? _Nihil unquam ei negasse... [ Continue Reading ]
The Horims 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; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them. Ver. 12. _As Israel did unto the land._] This and some other parc... [ Continue Reading ]
And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, 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. Ver. 14. _As the Lord sware._] His menaces also, as well as his promi... [ 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. Ver. 19. _Because I have given it._] _See Tra... [ Continue Reading ]
Deuteronomy 2:20 (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims; Ver. 20. _Zamzummims._] Big and boisterous, bearing down all before them; presumptuous wicked ones they were, and yet they called themselves Rephaims, that is, physi... [ 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.) Ver. 23. _And the Avims, which dwelt in Hazeroth._] These are ancient things, as it is said in another case, 1Ch 4:22 such, as whereof there is no rec... [ Continue Reading ]
And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying, Ver. 26. _With words of peace._] So the Romans, by their heralds, sent to those that opposed or wronged them, _caduceum et hastam,_ a proffer of peace first: For if we princes, said our H... [ Continue Reading ]
_But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: 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._ Ver. 30. _Had hardened his spirit._] _Deus quem destruit, dementat._ God makes fools of those whom he i... [ Continue Reading ]
Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, [nor] unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us. Ver. 37. _Only unto the land._] This kindness these Ammonites, in after ages, very evil requited, Amo 1:13 Jer... [ Continue Reading ]