Deuteronomy 2:5

contend not with them In its causative form the Heb. verb means to stir up, e.g. strife, Proverbs 15:18, etc.; here the reflex. form is to excite oneselfagainst another, to quarrelwith them. In the Pent. found only in this chapter, Deuteronomy 2:9; Deuteronomy 2:19; Deuteronomy 2:24.

for the sole of the foot to tread on Deuteronomy 11:24; Joshua 1:3.

I have given Note the claim made by the God of Israel over other peoples (cp. Amos 1:3 to Amos 2:3; Amos 9:7), also the memory or tradition that on their entry to Canaan Israel had not violated the rights of their kinsfolk. There is no hostile feeling towards Edom, such as became irrepressible in Israel after the Exile.

for a possession Heb. yerushshah, in the Hex. found only in this discourse, Deuteronomy 2:5; Deuteronomy 2:8; Deuteronomy 2:12; Deuteronomy 2:19bis, Deuteronomy 3:20, and in the deuteronomic Joshua 1:15; Joshua 12:6-7.