Deuteronomy 2:24

_RISE YE UP, TAKE YOUR JOURNEY, AND PASS OVER THE RIVER ARNON: BEHOLD, I HAVE GIVEN INTO THINE HAND SIHON THE AMORITE, KING OF HESHBON, AND HIS LAND: BEGIN TO POSSESS IT, AND CONTEND WITH HIM IN BATTLE._ Rise ye up ... and pass over the river Arnon. At its mouth, this stream is 82 feet wide, and 4 feet deep: It flows in a channel banked by perpendicular cliffs of sandstone. At the date of the Israelite migration to the east of the Jordan, the whole of the fine country lying between the Arnon and the Jabbok, including the mountainous tract of Gilead, had been seized by the Amorites, who being one of the nations doomed to destruction (see Numbers 21:21; also Deuteronomy 7:2; Deuteronomy 20:16:

Deuteronomy 2:24._Rise ye up, take your journey. _I have lately said that the order is here inverted, for what soon after follows, “And I sent messengers out of the wilderness,” etc., Deuteronomy 2:26, Moses, in my opinion, has inserted by way of parenthesis: it will, therefore, be suitably rendered in the pluperfect tense, “But I had sent,” etc. Thus there will be no ambiguity in the sense that, when the messengers had returned without effecting their purpose, God sustained the weariness of the people by this consolation, as though he had said, Sihon has not, with impunity, repudiated the peace offered to him, since it will now be permitted you to assail him in lawful war. And assuredly this signal for the expedition to advance depends on the declaration which is subjoined in...

24-37 God tried his people, by forbidding them to meddle with the rich countries of Moab and Ammon. He gives them possession of the country of the Amorites. If we keep from what God forbids, we shall not lose by our obedience. The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof; and he gives it to whom he pleases; but when there is no express direction, none can plead his grant for such proceedings. Though God assured the Israelites that the land should be their own, yet they must contend with the enemy. What God gives we must endeavour to get. What a new world did Israel now come into! Much more joyful will the change be, which holy souls will experience, when they remove out of the wilderness of this world to the better country, that is, the heavenly, to the city that has foundations. Let us, by reflecting upon God's dealings with his people Israel, be led to meditate upon our years spent...

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

RISE YE UP, TAKE YOUR JOURNEY, AND PASS OVER THE RIVER ARNON,.... Which was on the border of Moab, and divided between Moab and the Amorites, Numbers 21:13 BEHOLD, I HAVE GIVEN INTO THY HAND SIHON, THE AMORITE, KING OF HESHBON, and his land; that is, he had determined to give it to the Israelites, for as yet it was not actually given; of this king, and the place he was king of, Numbers 21:21Nu 21:26" begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle; provoke him to war, fight with him, take his land from him, and enter upon the possession of it, hereby assuring of victory....

_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

TAKE YOUR JOURNEY. Compare Numbers 21:13....

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;...

LESSON THREE DEUTERONOMY 2:24 TO DEUTERONOMY 3:29 7. FIRST SUCCESSFUL CONQUESTS (Deuteronomy 2:24 to Deuteronomy 3:11) a. OVER SIHON KING OF HESHBON (Deuteronomy 2:24-37) 24 Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon: behold, I have given into thy hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle. 25 This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the peoples that are under the whole heaven,