Chapter 2:
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Deuteronomy 2
Their march from Kadesh-barnea, ver. 1-3. A charge not to
trouble the Edomites, ver. 4-8. Nor the Moabites, ver. 9-12. (They
pass the river Zered, ver. 13-16.) Nor the Ammonites, ver. 17-23.
A command to attack Sihon, ver. 24-26. The conquest of his
kingdom, ver. 27-37.
Verse 1. Mount Seir - The mountainous country of Seir or Edom. Many
days - Even for thirty eight years.
Verse 3. Northward - Towards the land of the Amorites and Canaanites.
Verse 6. Buy meat - For thongh the manna did yet rain upon them, they
were not forbidden to buy other meats when they had opportunity,
but only were forbidden greedily to hunger after them when they
could not obtain them. Buy water - For water in those parts was
scarce, and therefore private persons did severally dig pits for
their particular use.
Verse 7. The Lord hath blessed thee - By God's blessing thou art able to
buy thy conveniences, and therefore thy theft and rapine will be
inexcusable, because without any pretense of necessity. He
knoweth - Hebrew. He hath known, that is, observed, or regarded
with care and kindness, which that word often notes. Which
experience of God's singular goodness to thee, should make thee
rely on him still, and not use any unjust practice to procure what
thou wantest or desirest.
Verse 8. We turned - From our direct road which lay through Edom.
Verse 9. Ar - The chief city of the Moabites, here put for the whole
country which depended upon it. The children of Lot - So called
to signify that this preservation, was not for their sakes, for they
were a wicked people, but for Lot's sake whose memory God yet
honours.
Verse 10. The Emims - Men terrible for stature and strength, as their
very name imparts, whose expulsion by the Moabites is here
noted as a great encouragement to the Israelites, for whose sake
he would much more drive out the wicked and accursed
Canaanites.
Verse 12. Which the Lord gave - The past tense is here put for the
future, will give after the manner of the prophets.
Verse 23. The Caphtorim - A people a-kin to the Philistines, Gen. x, 14,
and confederate with them in this enterprize, and so dwelling
together, and by degrees uniting together by marriages, they
became one people. Caphtor - Which is by the learned thought to
be Cappadocia: whither these people might make an expedition
out of Egypt, either because of the report of the great riches of
part of that country which drew others thither from places equally
remote, or for some other reason now unknown.
Verse 25. Under heaven - The following words rest rain the sentence to
those nations that heard of them.
Verse 28. On my feet - Or, with my company who are on foot: which is
added significantly, because if their army had consisted as much
of horsemen as many other armies did, their passage through his
land might have been more mischievous and dangerous.
Verse 29. As the children of Esau did - They did permit them to pass
quietly by the borders, though not through the heart of their land,
and in their passage the people sold them meat and drink, being it
seems more kind to them than their king would have had them;
and therefore they here ascribe this favour not to the king, though
they are now treating with a king, but to the people, the children
of Esau.
Verse 30. Hardened his spirit - That is, suffered it to be hardened.
Verse 34. Utterly destroyed - By God's command, these being a part of
those people who were devoted by the Lord of life and death, to
utter destruction for their abominable wickedness.
Verse 37. Of Jabbok - That is, beyond Jabbok: for that was the border of
the Ammomites.
Chapter 2:
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