Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Deuteronomy 2:10-12
For the Emims, Horims, and Anakims, see the marginal references. These verses are either parenthetical or the insertion of a later hand.
For the Emims, Horims, and Anakims, see the marginal references. These verses are either parenthetical or the insertion of a later hand.
Verse Deuteronomy 2:10. _THE EMIMS DWELT THEREIN_] Calmet supposes that these people were destroyed in the war made against them by Chedorlaomer and his allies, Genesis 14:5. Lot possessed their coun...
_3. AFTER THE FORTY YEARS AND FROM CONFLICT TO CONQUEST_ CHAPTER 2 _ 1. From Kadesh to the land of the Amorites (Deuteronomy 2:1)_ 2. The command to possess (Deuteronomy 2:24) 3. The conquest of S...
FROM KADESH-BARNEA TO WADY-ZERED. The present passage seems to contradict the parallel narrative in Numbers 20 f. Deuteronomy 2:1_ b. i.e._ we lingered in the neighbourhood of Mt. Seir a good length o...
EMIMS. terrible ones (Genesis 14:5).. race of the _Nephilim._ See App-25. ANAKIMS. See on Deuteronomy 1:28, and App-25....
Duet Deuteronomy 1:6 to Deuteronomy 3:29. Historical Part of the First Introductory Discourse Spoken in the land of Moab (Deuteronomy 1:5) in _the gai_or _glen, over against Beth Pe-or_...
8 _b_15. Arrival on the Border of Moab Israel, having crossed Edom from the -Arabah towards the wilderness of Moab (8 _b_), is charged not to treat Moab as a foe. Jehovah gave -Ar, their land, to the...
An archaeological note, rightly put in brackets by R.V., written after the settlement in W. Palestine, as is clear from the end of Deuteronomy 2:12. This of course does not in itself prove that the no...
_The Emim_ Only here and Genesis 14:5 which places the Emîm in Shaweh-Ḳiriathaim, probably _the plain_of the present Ḳureiyât, N. of Arnon. Whether the name is of an actual people or of mythical forma...
5. PASSING THROUGH MOAB (Deuteronomy 2:8-15) And we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. 9 And Jehovah said unto me, Vex not Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will no...
_THE EMIMS DWELT THEREIN IN TIMES PAST, A PEOPLE GREAT, AND MANY, AND TALL, AS THE ANAKIMS;_ No JFB commentary on these verses....
FIRST DISCOURSE (DEUTERONOMY 1:14 TO DEUTERONOMY 4:43) The long sojourn in the wilderness is now drawing to a close. The Israelites are encamped in the Plains of Moab within sight of the Promised Land...
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 2 V1 ‘Then we turned back and we went towards the *desert. We travelled along the way to the Re...
(10-12) These three verses which follow should be read parenthetically. THE EMIMS. — See Genesis 14:5, for the first mention of Rephaim, Zuzim, Emim, and Horim. (The termination _im_ is plural in Heb...
הָ אֵמִ֥ים לְ פָנִ֖ים יָ֣שְׁבוּ בָ֑הּ עַ֣ם
THE DIVINE GOVERNMENT Deuteronomy 1:1; Deuteronomy 2:1; Deuteronomy 3:1 AFTER these preliminary discussions we now enter upon the exposition. With the exception of the first two verses of chapter 1,...
JOURNEYING AND DYING IN THE WILDERNESS Deuteronomy 1:41; Deuteronomy 2:1 We cannot obtain by our impetuosity and insistence what God offers only as a free gift to our faith. The Land of Promise is no...
Continuing his discourse, Moses reviewed the second movement from Kadesh\-barnea to Heshbon. The notes which characterized the description of the first period are found also in this review of the seco...
The (f) Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; (f) Signifying that as these giants were driven out for their sins: so the wicked when their sins are ri...
_Emim signifies "the terrible," or "men of cubits or length." See Numbers xiii. 33. They had been probably ruined in the war of Chodorlahomor, (Genesis xiv. 5,) a little before the birth of Moab. (Cal...
The Emims, means the terrible ones. The most profitable instruction to be gathered from these verses will be, I think, to remark how often places change their masters. Nations, like individuals, succe...
In examining Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, we have found what may be called an abstract typical system. That is, we see in them a number of institutions laid down by Jehovah, the pattern of which wa...
10._The Emims dwelt therein in times past. _This is a confirmation of the foregoing declaration, which is, however, inserted by way of parenthesis by Moses himself; for the ninth verse, which I have j...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1, 2, 3, AND 4. Let us examine a little more closely these Chapter s, which shew the pains the Spirit took, to set before the eyes of the people all the moti...
THE EMIMS DWELT THERE IN TIME PAST,.... We read of them as early as the times of Chedorlaomer, Genesis 14:5 when their dwelling was in Kirjathaim, a city which Sihon king of the Amorites took from the...
The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; Ver. 10. _Many and tall are the Anakims._] And if God cast out those Emims, or terrible ones, before the Moa...
_The Emims_ Men terrible for stature and strength, as their very name imports, whose expulsion by the Moabites is here noted as a great encouragement to the Israelites, for whose sake he would much mo...
1 The story is continued, that they were not to meddle with the Edomites, 9 nor with the Moabites, 17 nor with the Ammonites, 24 but Sihon the Amorite was subdued by them. 1 THEN we turned, and to...
FROM KADESH TO THE BROOK ZERED...
The Emims dwelt therein in times past, in the land now occupied by Moab, A PEOPLE GREAT, AND MANY, AND TALL AS THE ANAKIMS;...
WILDERNESS WANDERINGS (vs.1-25) From Kadesh Barnea Israel had to virtually retrace their steps, going back toward the Red Sea. Believers today find similar experiences because of lack of faith. Inste...
8-23 We have the origin of the Moabites, Edomites, and Ammonites. Moses also gives an instance older than any of these; the Caphtorims drove the Avims out of their country. These revolutions show wha...
EMIMS; men terrible for stature and strength, as their very name imports; see GENESIS 14:5; whose expulsion by the Moabites is here noted as a great encouragement to the Israelites, for whose sake he...
The closing lines of chapter 1 show us the people weeping before the Lord. "And ye returned and wept before the Lord; but the Lord would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you. So ye abode i...
Deuteronomy 2:10 Emim H368 dwelt H3427 (H8804) past H6440 people H5971 great H1419 numerous H7227 tall H7311 ...
THEIR DEALINGS WITH MOAB (DEU DEUTERONOMY 2:8 A). Moab too had been given possession of their land by Yahweh, because of His love for Abraham. Thus they too were not to be molested. And they were to...
CONTENTS: The wanderings and conflicts in the wilderness. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Sihon. CONCLUSION: It is a work of time to make souls meet for the heavenly Canaan and it must be done by many a lon...
Deuteronomy 2:10. _The Emims;_ that is, men of terrific aspect with regard to stature, armour, and appearance. Deuteronomy 2:12. _The Horims,_ Horites, Genesis 14:6, which Esau had destroyed. The infe...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 2:1__ Moses recalls a time near the end of the 40-year wilderness period when Israel peacefully passed through three nations distantly related to it (see Numbers
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 2:10 The people whom God had removed to give Moab its land included the very people Israel now feared (see Deuteronomy 1:28). Israel should trust God inst
CRITICAL NOTES.— Deuteronomy 2:1. The story continued. After the unsuccessful attack, Israel broke up emcampment at Kadesh. Many days. _i.e._, many years in a nomadic life, wandering in various direc...
EXPOSITION DEUTERONOMY 2:1 THE NEW BEGINNING AND REVIEW OF THE JOURNEYINGS OF ISRAEL FROM KADESH TO THE RIVER
So we turned, and took our journey by way of the wilderness back toward the Red sea. And the LORD spake to me saying, you've compassed this mountain long enough: go north. And he commanded the people....
Deuteronomy 2:11; Genesis 14:5...
TURNING BACKWARD Deuteronomy 2:1 _and Deuteronomy 3:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS Last week we closed with God's refusal to permit the Children of Israel to go into the land of Canaan. They had come up to K...
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 mo...
How could this have been written by Moses when it refers to the land of promise which he never entered? PROBLEM: Moses died before he could enter the Promised Land and was buried outside of it on the...