Deuteronomy 3:8
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 ]
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 ]
Sirion — Elsewhere called Mount Gilead, and Lebanon, and here Shenir, and Sirion, which several names are given to this one mountain partly by several people, and partly in regard of several tops and parts of it.... [ Continue Reading ]
All Gilead — Gilead is sometimes taken for all the Israelites possessions beyond Jordan, and so it comprehends Bashan; but here for that part of it which lies in and near mount Gilead, and so it is distinguished from Bashan and Argob.... [ Continue Reading ]
In Rabbath — 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 desired to have this monument of his greatness, and the Israelites permitted them to carry it away to their chief city. Nine cubits — So... [ Continue Reading ]
Unto this day — This must be put among those passages which were not written by Moses, but added by those holy men, who digested the books of Moses into this order, and inserted some few passages to accommodate things to their own time and people.... [ Continue Reading ]
Gilead — That is, the half part of Gilead. To Machir — That is, 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 means both a valley and a brook or river. And this sense is agreeable to the truth, that their land extended from Gilead unto Arnon, and, to speak exactly, to the mi... [ Continue Reading ]
The plain — The low country towards Jordan. The sea of the plain — That is, that salt sea, which before that dreadful conflagration was a goodly plain.... [ Continue Reading ]
You — Namely, the Reubenites and Gadites. All that are meet — In such number as your our brethren shall judge necessary. They were in all above an hundred thousand. Forty thousand of them went over Jordan before their brethren.... [ Continue Reading ]
I besought the Lord — We should allow no desire in our hearts, which we cannot in faith offer unto God by prayer.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness — Lord, perfect what thou hast begun. The more we see of God's glory in his works, the more we desire to see. And the more we are affected with what we have seen of God, the better we are prepared for farther discoveries.... [ Continue Reading ]
Let me go over — For he supposed God's threatening might be conditional and reversible, as many others were. That goodly mountain — Which the Jews not improbably understood of that mountain on which the temple was to be built. This he seems to call that mountain, emphatically and eminently, that whi... [ Continue Reading ]
He shall go over — It was not Moses, but Joshua or Jesus that was to give the people rest, Hebrews 4:8. 'Tis a comfort to those who love mankind, when they are dying and going off, to see God's work likely to be carried on by other hands, when they are silent in the dust.... [ Continue Reading ]