Deuteronomy 2:1

_THEN WE TURNED, AND TOOK OUR JOURNEY INTO THE WILDERNESS BY THE WAY OF THE RED SEA, AS THE LORD SPAKE UNTO ME: AND WE COMPASSED MOUNT SEIR MANY DAYS._ Then we turned, and took our journey ... by the way of the Red sea. After their unsuccessful attack upon the Canaanites, the Israelites broke up their encampment at Kadesh, and journeying southward over the west desert of Tih, as well as through the great valley of the Arabah, they extended their removals as far as the Gulf of Akaba. WE COMPASSED MOUNT SEIR MANY DAYS. In these few words Moses comprised the whole of that wandering nomadic life which they passed during 38 years, shifting from place to place, and regulating their stations by the prospect of pasturage and water. Within the interval they went northward a second time to Kadesh; but being refused a passage through Edom, and opposed by the Canaanites and Amalakites, they again...

1._Then we turned and took our journey. _The time in which they struck their camp is not stated in the book of Numbers. This verse, therefore, will aptly connect the history, since otherwise there would be an abruptness in what immediately follows, he then briefly indicates what was the nature of their journeying until the time appointed; viz., that, by wearying themselves in vain in circuitous wanderings, they might, at length, learn to follow God directly, and not to decline from the way which He points out....

1-7 Only a short account of the long stay of Israel in the wilderness is given. God not only chastised them for their murmuring and unbelief, but prepared them for Canaan; by humbling them for sin, teaching them to mortify their lusts, to follow God, and to comfort themselves in him. Though Israel may be long kept waiting for deliverance and enlargement, it will come at last. Before God brought Israel to destroy their enemies in Canaan, he taught them to forgive their enemies in Edom. They must not, under pretence of God's covenant and conduct, think to seize all they could lay hands on. Dominion is not founded in grace. God's Israel shall be well placed, but must not expect to be placed alone in the midst of the earth. Religion must never be made a cloak for injustice. Scorn to be beholden to Edomites, when thou hast an all-sufficient God to depend upon. Use what thou hast, use it chee...

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 spent between_ Kadesh-barnea _and_ Zered, 14; _during which all the men of war that came out of Egypt were_ _consumed_, 15, 16. _The command not to distress the_ Ammonites, 17-19....

Deuteronomy 2:1 seems to refer in general terms to the long years of wandering, the details of which were not for Moses’ present purpose. The command of Deuteronomy 2:2 relates to their journey from Kadesh to Mount Hor Numbers 20:22; Numbers 33:37, and directs their march around to the southern extremity of Mount Seir, so as to “compass the land of Edom” Judges 11:18; Numbers 21:4, and so northward toward the Arnon, i. e., “by the way of th

EXPOSITION DEUTERONOMY 2:1 THE NEW BEGINNING AND REVIEW OF THE JOURNEYINGS OF ISRAEL FROM KADESH TO THE RIVER ARNON, THE FRONTIER OF THE AMORITES. At this point the language of address is exchanged for that of narrative. The change of subject from "ye abode" to "we turned," became necessary when Moses passed from exhorting and warning the people to narrating what happened after they resumed their journeyings; and gives no support to the notion of some recent German critics, that Moses left Ka

THEN WE TURNED,.... From Kadesh, where they had been many days, and so also their backs on the land of Canaan, on the borders of which they had been: AND TOOK OUR JOURNEY INTO THE WILDERNESS, BY THE WAY OF THE RED SEA, AS THE LORD SPAKE UNTO ME; Deuteronomy 1:40 AND WE COMPASSED MOUNT SEIR MANY DAYS; many think by Mount Seir is meant the whole mountainous country of Edom, about which they travelled to and fro in the wilderness that lay near it for the space of thirty eight years, which they suppose are meant by many days; but I rather think they came to this mount towards the close of the thirty eight years, before they came to Kadesh, from whence they sent messengers to Edom, which they went round about for several days,...

_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 Sihon (Deuteronomy 2:26) The many days in the first verse are the thirty-eight years. We must notice the little word “we.” “We turned and took our journey into the wilderness.” Moses, Aaron, his sons, Joshua, Caleb and the faithful Levites turned back with the unfaithful, murmuring Israelites. Moses and all who had not shared in the unbelief of the people submitted to the sovereign will of the Lord. How strange it would have been if they had complained in sharing in

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 of time, viz. thirty-eight years (Deuteronomy 2:7; Deuteronomy 2:14). Deuteronomy 2:4. border: better, bordered territory, the Heb. word means both. YOUR BRETHREN: _ i.e._ kinsmen (see Genesis 25:23; Genesis 36:43

TURNED. faced about. Compare Deuteronomy 1:7. AS. according as. THE LORD SPAKE. Jehovah spake at nine "sundry times" and in three "divers manners": 1. To me (Moses), Deuteronomy 2:1; Deuteronomy 2:2; Deuteronomy 2:17; Deuteronomy 9:13; Deuteronomy 32:48. 2. To you, Deuteronomy 4:12;...