THESE. Note the ten (see App-10) addresses by Moses: 1) Deuteronomy 1:6-4 2)Deuteronomy 5:1 3) Deuteronomy 10:10 4) Deuteronomy 13:1 5) Deuteronomy 27:1; Deuteronomy 28:1 6) Deuteronomy 29:2; Deuteronomy 30:1 7)... [ Continue Reading ]
ELEVEN DAYS': i.e. going direct. SEIR. Edom. KADESH-BARNEA. See Numbers 32:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
FORTIETH. The number of Probation. See App-10. First month, Miriam died, Numbers 20:1. fifth month, Aaron died, Numbers 33:38. at the end, Moses died on 29 Sebat, 1452; for the thirty days' mourning end with last day of the fortieth year (29 Adar, 1452). See App-50,:4. CHILDREN. sons. ACCORDING UN... [ Continue Reading ]
AND OG. Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ (App-6.). "and [had slain] Og". Compare Numbers 21:34.Numbers 3:5. in Edrei. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and in". Compare Joshua 12:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEGAN. undertook with will. Heb _ya'al._ First occurrence Genesis 18:27; Genesis 18:31. DECLARE. Hebrew. _ba'ar_, make plain, show sense, set forth, especially in writing. Occurs only here and Deuteronomy 27:8, and Habakkuk 2:2. LAW. _torah_. instruction.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD OUR GOD. _Jehovah 'eloheinu._ Two titles of later date do _not_ occur in Deut.: "The LORD of hosts" (Samuel) and "the Holy Ono of Israel" (Isaiah). SPAKE. Jehovah spake only here to "us". His speaking to others, see Deuteronomy 2:1. Jehovah "said", See Deuteronomy 2:9. Jehovah "commanded",... [ Continue Reading ]
TURN YOU. Face about. Note the Figure of speech _Polyonymia_ (App-6) in this verse. Hebrew. _panah,_ set one's face; start. VALE. Hebrew. _Shephelah =_ Philistia. SOUTH. Hebrew. _Negeb,_ the hill country south of Judea. See note on "South", Genesis 12:9; Genesis 13:1. RIVER. Hebrew. _nahar,_. flo... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos_ (App-6). ABRAHAM. Genesis 15:18; Genesis 17:7; Genesis 17:8; Genesis 24:7; Genesis 26:3, &c. This promise mentioned twenty-seven times in Deut., but unintelligible without Genesis.... [ Continue Reading ]
I SPAKE. See Exodus 18:17; Exodus 18:18; Numbers 11:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
MULTIPLIED. Compare Deuteronomy 10:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS. according as. PROMISED. See Genesis 12:2; Genesis 22:17, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOW. See note on Lamentations 1:1. cumbrance. Hebrew. _torah,_ only here and Isaiah 1:14 (trouble).... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN. Hebrew, plural of _'ish_ or _'enosh_... [ Continue Reading ]
TRIBES. Hebrew. _shebet,_ tribe, according to historical or political corporation; always this word in Deut. Where "tribe" is genealogical or geographical elsewhere it is _matteh._... [ Continue Reading ]
I TOOK. Compare Exodus 18:21. CHIEF. Hebrew. _sar._ Compare Genesis 32:28. MEN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
RESPECT. recognise. PERSONS. Hebrew faces. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part), App-6, put for persons. Compare Leviticus 19:15. JUDGMENT. Hebrew the judgment: i.e. suited to each case. Compare Exodus 18:26. IS GOD'S. it [is] God's.... [ Continue Reading ]
WILDERNESS. desert. Compare Numbers 10:11; Numbers 11:5; Numbers 12:16; Numbers 13:26. and Ch. Deuteronomy 8:15. AS. according as. KADESH-BARNEA. Compare Numbers 32:8. A place of solemn import in Israel's history.... [ Continue Reading ]
AMORITES. descendants of the _Nephilim._ See App-25.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. FEAR NOT, &C. Compare Deuteronomy 31:6; Deuteronomy 31:8; Joshua 1:9; Joshua 8:1; Joshua 10:25). 1 Chronicles 22:13; 1 Chronicles 28:20; 2 Chronicles 20:15;... [ Continue Reading ]
EVERY ONE, &C.. all of you. See note on Deuteronomy 1:1. WE WILL SEND, &C. Proposal came from people, and is here charged home against them. Jehovah assented, and this assent appears in the history. Numbers 13:1. MEN. Hebrew, plural of 'ish, or _'enosh._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
ESHCOL. a cluster of grapes. Numbers 13:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOOD LAND. Compare Numbers 13:27.... [ Continue Reading ]
COMMANDMENT. Hebrew mouth. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for the word spoken by it. So Deuteronomy 1:43.Exodus 17:1.Genesis 24:57, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
MURMURED. Hebrew. _ragan,_ to rebel. Only here, Psalms 106:25, and Isaiah 2:9, Isa 2:24. AMORITES. The Severus codex reads "the Amorite" (singular) See App-34. DESTROY. exterminate. Hebrew. _shamad._... [ Continue Reading ]
OUR BRETHREN. our own brethren. Compare Numbers 13:28. HEART. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "hearts" (plural) TALLER. greater. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint, read "more in number". WALLED, &C. Figure of speech _Hyperbole._ App-6. ANAKIMS. First occurr... [ Continue Reading ]
SON. See Numbers 11:11; Numbers 11:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew "in the LORD"(= Jehovah).... [ Continue Reading ]
A PLACE. See Exodus 15:17; Numbers 10:33.Joshua 3:3; Joshua 3:4.Ezekiel 20:6. YOUR TENTS. Not only your inheritance, but the halting-place for daily journeying thither. Both were and are Jehovah's choice for His People. IN FIRE BY NIGHT. See Exodus 13:21; Exodus 13:22.Numbers 10:33;... [ Continue Reading ]
WAS WROTH. See Numbers 14:20 and Psalms 95:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
CALEB. Compare Numbers 14:23; Numbers 14:24.Joshua 14:9; Judges 1:20. CHILDREN. sons.... [ Continue Reading ]
This and the next verse are put in. Parenthesis (App-6). ANGRY. See Numbers 20:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
JOSHUA. Numbers 14:30.... [ Continue Reading ]
YOUR LITTLE ONES. Numbers 14:31.... [ Continue Reading ]
TURN YOU. start. Numbers 14:25. RED SEA. eastern arm. The gulf of Akabah. Compare Deuteronomy 1:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
ANSWERED AND SAID. Idiom. App-6. In this idiom the word "answered" receives its meaning from the context. Here it. confessed, or repented and said. WE WILL GO UP. Compare Numbers 14:40. READY. Hebrew. _hun._ Occurs only here:. rash, or presumptuous.... [ Continue Reading ]
REBELLED. Numbers 14:44; Numbers 14:45. COMMANDMENT. Hebrew mouth. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, put for what is uttered by it, as in Deuteronomy 1:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
AMORITES. Compare Numbers 14:43. See App-25. BEES. Hebrew with art. "the bees". Art. of species. DESTROYED YOU. beat you down. Hebrew. _kathath._... [ Continue Reading ]
ABODE IN KADESH. This is not. summary of the thirty-eight years' wandering, but of what happened before then. How solemn the word "abode" when the command had been "go up".... [ Continue Reading ]