Deuteronomy 2:26

_THIS DAY WILL I BEGIN TO PUT THE DREAD OF THEE AND THE FEAR OF THEE UPON THE NATIONS THAT ARE UNDER THE WHOLE HEAVEN, WHO SHALL HEAR REPORT OF THEE, AND SHALL TREMBLE, AND BE IN ANGUISH BECAUSE OF THEE._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

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...

KEDEMOTH - literally, “Easternmost parts;” the name of a town afterward assigned to the Reubenites, and given out of that tribe to the Levites. Compare Joshua 13:18; 1 Chronicles 6:79....

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 I SENT MESSENGERS OUT OF THE WILDERNESS OF KEDEMOTH,.... A city in the tribe of Reuben, and given by them to the Levites in later times, having been taken from the Amorites with others; near this lay a wilderness, which took its name from it, and seems to be the same with Jeshimon, Numbers 21:20. Aben Ezra takes it to be the wilderness of Matthanah, which according to Jerom g was situated on Arnon, twelve miles to the east of Medeba; see Numbers 21:18 from hence messengers were sent by Moses, UNTO SIHON KING OF HESHBON, WITH WORDS OF PEACE; in a peaceable and respectful manner, desiring to be at peace and in friendship with him, and a continuance of it, which was done to leave him inexcusable; as afterwards a like method was ordered to be taken, when they came to any c

_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

SENT MESSENGERS. Numbers 21:21; Numbers 21:22.Judges 11:19. KEDEMOTH. Compare Numbers 21:21. Afterward. Levitical city (Joshua 13:18. Jos 21:37. 1 Chronicles 6:64; 1 Chronicles 6:79)....

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._ 26. _KEDEMOTH_— This was a city in that tract situated on the north side of the river Arnon, which fell to the lot of the Reubenites, Joshua 13:18. It gave name to _the wilderness_ here mentioned....