Deuteronomy 3:1
BASHAN. Compare Numbers 21:33; Numbers 21:34. CAME OUT. Og was the aggressor. Numbers 21:33.... [ Continue Reading ]
BASHAN. Compare Numbers 21:33; Numbers 21:34. CAME OUT. Og was the aggressor. Numbers 21:33.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. SAID. See note on Deuteronomy 2:9. HAND. Some codices, with three early printed editions, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "hands". AS. according as.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. del I vered. Compare Deuteronomy 2:36.... [ Continue Reading ]
THREESCORE CITIES. They can all be seen, and counted today. (See Dr. Porter's _Giant Cities of Bashan_.) REGION. Hebrew. "cord". Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for the region marked out by it. ARGOB. Compare 1 Kings 4:13.Psalms 136:18... [ Continue Reading ]
CITIES. See note on Deuteronomy 3:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
DESTROYED... DESTROYING. devoted to destruction. Hebrew. _haram_. Compare Deuteronomy 7:2. MEN. Hebrew. _methim_. adult males. App-14. WOMEN. Some codices, with The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and the women".... [ Continue Reading ]
SPOIL. For laws regulating this, see Numbers 31.... [ Continue Reading ]
ON THIS SIDE. across,. neutral term. See note on Deuteronomy 1:1. UNTO. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "and (or even) unto". HERMON. high mountain.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH. Note these topographical parentheses, verses: Deuteronomy 3:9; Deuteronomy 3:11; Deuteronomy 3:14, Compare Deuteronomy 2:20; Deuteronomy 2:29. SIRION. breastplate. SHENIR. coat of mail.... [ Continue Reading ]
GILEAD. the rough country.... [ Continue Reading ]
GIANTS. Hebrew " _Rephaim_ ", descendants of one Rapha,. branch of the _Nephilim_. See App-25. BEHOLD.. special various reading called _Sevir_ (see App-34) reads "and behold". BEDSTEAD. bed or couch, but not the usual word which is _mishkab_. It is. _eres_, and is exactly the same measurement as t... [ Continue Reading ]
AT THAT TIME. Compare Numbers 32:33; Numbers 21:24.Joshua 12:1; Joshua 13:8; Joshua 13:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
COASTS. borders. BASHAN-HAVOTH-JAIR. the villages (or cluster of villages) of Jair in Bashan. Hebrew. _Havoth_. towns, used only of Jair's. Compare Numbers 32:41.Joshua 13:30. Jdg 10:4. 1 Kings 4:13; 1 Chronicles 2:23. UNTO THIS DAY: unto the time of writing. Here the time mentioned is from Number... [ Continue Reading ]
CHINNERETH. Afterward called Gennesaret, compare Numbers 34:11.Joshua 19:35. So called from its shape, _kinnor_,. harp. THE PLAIN. Hebrew. _'Arabah_. See Deuteronomy 1:1. ASHDOTH-PISGAH. the springs of Pisgah. Note the Figure of speech Polyonymia (App-6) in this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
I COMMANDED. See Numbers 32:20. MEET FOR THE WAR. Hebrew. sons of valour. Figure of speech _Antimereia_ (of Noun), App-6. valiant men. Emphasis on valiant. Compare 2 Samuel 2:7; 1 Kings 1:52.... [ Continue Reading ]
RETURN. Compare Joshua 22:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOT FEAR. Compare Deuteronomy 1:29; Deuteronomy 1:30. Ex. Deuteronomy 14:13; Deuteronomy 14:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
LORD GOD. _Adonai J_. _ehovah_. See App-4. This prayer not mentioned elsewhere. HAND. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), put for works wrought by the hand.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GOOD LAND. Compare Psalms 106:24.Numbers 13:27.... [ Continue Reading ]
WROTH. See Numbers 20:12. SAID. See note on Deuteronomy 2:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
WESTWARD, &C. The points of the compass here are seaward, darkness-ward, Teman-ward, and sunrise-ward. Teman-ward (i.e. south of Edom) first used for south in Exodus 26:18. See Numbers 27:12. AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton,_ App-6, emphasizing the extent of the view. not go over. Comp... [ Continue Reading ]
CHARGE JOSHUA. Compare Numbers 27:18; Numbers 27:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
BETH-PEOR. the house (or temple) of Peor, where Baal was worshipped (Numbers 23:28; Numbers 25:3.Numbers 4:3, Here Moses was buried (Deuteronomy 34:6). It was. Moabite holy place (Numbers 25:18. Num 25:31, Numbers 25:16; Joshua 22:17). Allotted to Reuben (Joshua 13:20).... [ Continue Reading ]