CHAPTER II _Moses continues to relate how they compassed Mount_ Seir, 1. _And the commands they received not to meddle with the_ _descendants of_ Esau, 2-8; _nor to distress the_ Moabites, 9. _Of the_ Emims, 10, 11; _the_ Horims, 12. _Their passage of the brook_ Zered, 13. _The time they spe... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 2:3. _TURN YOU NORTHWARD._] From Mount Seir, in order to get to Canaan. This was not the way they went before, viz., by Kadesh-barnea, but they were to proceed between Edom on the one hand, and Moab and Ammon on the other, so as to enter into Canaan through the land of the Amorites... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 2:5. _MEDDLE NOT WITH THEM_] That is, the Edomites. See on Numbers 20:14-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 2:7. _THE LORD - HATH BLESSED THEE, C._] God had given them much property, and therefore they had no need of plunder they had gold and silver to buy the provender they needed, and therefore God would not permit them to take any thing by violence.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 country after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha. They are generally esteemed as _giants_; probably th... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 2:11. _WHICH ALSO WERE ACCOUNTED GIANTS_] This is not a fortunate version. The word is not _giants_, but רפאים _Rephaim_, the name of a _people_. It appears that the _Emim_, the _Anakim_, and the _Rephaim_, were probably the same people, called by different names in the different... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 2:12. _THE HORIMS ALSO DWELT IN SEIR_] The whole of this verse was probably added by Joshua or Ezra.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 2:20. _THAT ALSO WAS ACCOUNTED A LAND OF GIANTS_] That was accounted the land or territory of the _Rephaim_. _ZAMZUMMIMS_] Supposed to be the same as the _Zuzim_, Genesis 14:5. Of these ancient people we know very little; they were probably inconsiderable tribes or clans, "pursui... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 2:29. _AS THE CHILDREN OF ESAU WHICH DWELL IN SEIR_] Numbers 20:21.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 2:30. _THE LORD - HARDENED HIS SPIRIT_] Exodus 4:21, and _"_Exodus 9:15_"_, c.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 2:36. _FROM AROER - BY THE BRINK OF THE RIVER OF ARNON_] Numbers 21:13, c.... [ Continue Reading ]
Verse Deuteronomy 2:37. _ONLY UNTO THE LAND OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON THOU_ _CAMEST NOT_] God gave them their commission; and those only were to be cut off, the cup of whose iniquity was full. Though the Moabites and Ammonites were thus spared, they requited good with evil, for they fought against t... [ Continue Reading ]