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Deuteronomy 3
The conquest of Og and his country, ver. 1-11. The distribution
of it to the two tribes and an half, ver. 12-17. On condition of
assisting their brethren, ver. 18-20. Joshua encouraged, ver. 21-22. Moses prays that he may go into Canaan, v. 23-25. But is refused, yet permitted to see it, ver. 26-29.
Verse 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.
Verse 9. 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.
Verse 10. 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.
Verse 11. 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 his bed was four
yards and an half long, and two yards broad.
Verse 14. 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.
Verse 15. 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.
Verse 16. 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 middle of that
river; for as that river was the border between them and others, so
one half of it belonged to them, as the other half did to others,
Josh. xii, 2. The same thing is expressed in the same words in the
Hebrew which are here, though our translators render the self-
same words there, from the middle of the river, which here they
render, half of the valley. There the bounds of Sihon's kingdom,
which was the same portion here mentioned as given to Reuben
and Gad, are thus described, from Aroer, which is upon the bank
of the river of Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from
half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the
children of Ammon.
Verse 17. 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.
Verse 18. 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.
Verse 23. I besought the Lord - We should allow no desire in our hearts,
which we cannot in faith offer unto God by prayer.
Verse 24. 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.
Verse 25. 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 which was
much in Moses's thoughts, though not in his eye.
Verse 28. He shall go over - It was not Moses, but Joshua or Jesus that
was to give the people rest, Heb. iv, 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.
Chapter 3:
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