Deuteronomy 2:23

_AND THE AVIMS WHICH DWELT IN HAZERIM, EVEN UNTO AZZAH, THE CAPHTORIMS, WHICH CAME FORTH OUT OF CAPHTOR, DESTROYED THEM, AND DWELT IN THEIR STEAD.)_ And the Avims - the aborigines of the district. WHICH DWELT IN HAZERIM - i:e., in nomadic villages. EVEN UNTO AZZAH, х_ `AZAAH_ (H5804), strong, powerful] - a fortified border town on the edge of the southern desert. The Avim, or Avites (Joshua 13:8), were a pastoral people, whose domain extended to the immediate neighbourhood of Gaza, and the capital of their kingdom was Gerar (Genesis 20:1; Genesis 26:1). But this ancient kingdom seems to have been overthrown, and is not mentioned in late

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 what uncertain things wordly possessions are. It was so of old, and ever will be so. Families decline, and from them estates are transferred to families that increase; so little continuance is there in these things. This is recorded to encourage the children of Israel. If the providence of God has done this for Moabites and Ammonites, much more would his promise do it for Israel, his peculiar people. Cautions are given not to meddle with Moabites and Ammonites. Even wicked men must not be wronged. God gives and preserves outward blessings to wicked men; these are not the best things, he has better in store for his own children....

These verses, like Deuteronomy 2:10, are in all likelihood an addition made by a later reviser. Deuteronomy 2:20 ZAMZUMMIMS - A giant race usually identified with the Zuzims of Genesis 14:5. Deuteronomy 2:23 THE AVIMS WHICH DWELT IN HAZERIM, EVEN UNTO AZZAH - Read (Gaza, of which Azzah is the Hebrew form. “Hazerim” is not strictly a proper name, but means “villages,” or “enclosures,” probably such as are still common in the East. The Avims are no doubt identical with the Avites of...

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

AND THE AVIM, WHICH DWELT IN HAZERIM, EVEN UNTO AZZAH,.... The same with the Avites, who appear to have inhabited some part of the land of the Philistines, in which Azzah or Gaza was, which was one of the five lordships of the Philistines, Joshua 13:3. The word Hazerim signifies courts, and a learned man e interprets it of tents or huts placed in a square or circular form, so as to have an area in the middle; and in such the Avim may be supposed to dwell, while in Palestine, as far as Gaza: THE CAPHTORIM, WHICH CAME FROM OUT OF CAPHTOR, DESTROYED THEM; according to the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, and the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions, these were Cappadocians, that came out of Cappadocia; but it seems manifest that they were originally of Egypt, see Genesis 10:14 and Bochart f t

_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

Antiquarian note by an editor (_cf. Deuteronomy 2:10_). Deuteronomy 2:20. Zamzummim: the Zuzim of Genesis 14:5 *, so Keil and others. Deuteronomy 2:22. unto this day: frequent in Dt. (Deuteronomy 3:14, etc.), Jos., and Jg. in a similar context. The implication is that the state of things described continued down to the writer's day. Deuteronomy 2:23. Avvim (better Awwim) dispossessed by the Philistines

AVIMS. Another name for these _Nephilim._ Joshua 13:3. (App-25.) ADDITIONAL NOTES ON NEXT PAGE. AZZAH. Gaza. Gen 10:19. 1 Samuel 6:17. Compare 1 Kings 4:24.Jeremiah 25:20; Acts 8:26. CAPHTORIMS. Another name, for those that came out of Caphtor. Genesis 10:14.Amos 9:7; Jeremiah 47:4. Som

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_(Deuteronomy 3:29), a review of Israel's experiences since they left Ḥoreb. In the Plur. form of address except for the following fragments Deuteronomy 1:8; Deuteronomy 1:21;...

_VER._ 23. _AND THE AVIMS, WHICH DWELT IN HAZERIM,_ &C.— The Avims are mentioned, Judges 13:3 as the ancient inhabitants of Palestine: _Hazerim_ is no where else read of. Calmet supposes it to be the same place with _Hazeroth,_ Numbers 33:17. But _Azza,_ or _Gaza,_ is well known, being one of the cities of the Philistines, on the northern coast. The _Caphtorims_ were a branch of the Philistines, so called from their founder, who settled in _Caphtor,_ a country in or about Egypt. See Genesis 10:14 and Shaw's Travels, p. 286. Le Clerc thinks that the Caphtorims came from the northern coast of Africa: Calmet believes them to have been originally from the island of Cyprus. The translat