Deuteronomy 2:1 seems to refer in general terms to the long years of wandering, the details of which were not for Moses’ present purpose. The command of Deuteronomy 2:2 relates to their journey from Kadesh to Mount Hor Numbers 20:22; Numbers 33:37, and directs their march around to the southern extr... [ Continue Reading ]
Compare the marginal reference. Though the Edomites resisted the passage through the midst of their land, they did not, and probably could not, oppose the “passing through the coast” or along their eastern frontier.... [ Continue Reading ]
I HAVE GIVEN MOUNT SEIR TO ESAU - Though the descendants of Esau were conquered by David 2 Samuel 8:14, yet they were not dispossessed of their land, and in the reign of Jehoshaphat they regained their independence 2 Kings 8:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
Elath (Akaba) is at the northern extremity of the eastern arm of the Red Sea, and gives to that arm the name of the Elanitic Gulf. The name means “trees;” and is still justified by the grove of palm-trees at Akaba.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Moabites and the Ammonites Deuteronomy 2:19 being descended from Lot, the nephew of Abraham Genesis 19:30, were, like the Edomites, kinsmen of the Israelites.... [ Continue Reading ]
For the Emims, Horims, and Anakims, see the marginal references. These verses are either parenthetical or the insertion of a later hand.... [ Continue Reading ]
The words, “said I,” are not in the Hebrew. The words “rise up, and get you over the brook Zered” (Numbers 21:12 note) connect themselves with Deuteronomy 2:9, and form the conclusion of what God said to Moses.... [ Continue Reading ]
These verses, like Deuteronomy 2:10, are in all likelihood an addition made by a later reviser. Deuteronomy 2:20 ZAMZUMMIMS - A giant race usually identified with the Zuzims of Genesis 14:5. Deuteronomy 2:23 THE AVIMS WHICH DWELT IN HAZERIM, EVEN UNTO AZZAH - Read (Gaza, of which Azzah is the Heb... [ Continue Reading ]
KEDEMOTH - literally, “Easternmost parts;” the name of a town afterward assigned to the Reubenites, and given out of that tribe to the Levites. Compare Joshua 13:18; 1 Chronicles 6:79.... [ Continue Reading ]
UTTERLY DESTROYED THE MEN, AND THE WOMEN, AND THE LITTLE ONES, OF EVERY CITY - Render, laid under ban (compare Leviticus 27:28 note) every inhabited city, both women and children: these last words being added by way of fuller explanation.... [ Continue Reading ]
AROER, WHICH IS BY THE BRINK OF THE RIVER OF ARNON - Aroer stood on the north bank of the river, and was assigned Joshua 13:9, Joshua 13:16 to the tribe of Reuben, of which it formed the most southerly city. The valley of the Arnon is here deep, and the descent to it abrupt. In Roman times it was sp... [ Continue Reading ]