Deuteronomy 3:9

_(WHICH HERMON THE SIDONIANS CALL SIRION; AND THE AMORITES CALL IT SHENIR;)_ No JFB commentary on this verse....

Verse Deuteronomy 3:9. _HERMON THE SIDONIANS CALL - SHENIR_] I suppose this verse to have been a marginal remark, which afterwards got incorporated with the text, or an addition by Joshua or Ezra....

Hermon, the southern and culminating point of the range of Lebanon, was also the religious center of primaeval Syria. Its Baal sanctuaries not only existed but gave it a name before the Exodus. Hence, the careful specification of the various names by which the mountain was known. The Sidonian name of it might easily have become known to Moses through the constant traffic which had gone on from the most ancient times between Sidon and Egypt....

EXPOSITION DEUTERONOMY 3:1 CONQUEST OF OG,_ _KING OF_ _BASHAN. The Amorites had wrested from Moab a portion of the territory taken by _the Moabites _and the _Edomites _from the giant aborigines; and Og, who was of the same giant race, ruled over the northern half of _the _region of _Gilead _and _over _all Bashan. This district also God purposed Israel to possess; and therefore, before crossing the _Jordan_, a_ _diversion was made north. wards by the Israelites, for the purpose of attacking this powerful chief. Og en_countered them _with all _his host_,_ but _was signally defeated, and he and all his people were exterminated. Not fewer than three score fortified citi

WHICH HERMON THE SIDONIANS CALL SIRION,.... Which name it has in Psalms 29:6 a name the inhabitants of Sidon gave it, but for what reason it is not easy to say; however, that it was well known to Tyre and Sidon, appears from snow in summer time being brought to the former, as will be hereafter observed: AND THE AMORITES CALL IT SHENIR; in whose possession it was last. Bochart k thinks it had its name from the multitude of wild cats in it, Shunar in the Chaldee tongue being the name of that creature; but Jarchi says Shenir in the Canaanitish language signifies "snow"; so, in the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, it is called the mountain of snow; and the Hebrew who read to Jerom, and taught him, affirmed to him that this mountain hung over Paneas, from whence snow in summer time was brought to Tyre for pleasure l, and the same is confirmed by Abulfeda m. There is said to be up

CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The conquest of Og (Deuteronomy 3:1)_ 2. The land possessed (Deuteronomy 3:12) 3. Joshua in the place of Moses (Deuteronomy 3:21) In obedience to the word of the Lord, they went to battle against Og, the king of Bashan. Obedience to the Lord and its results and blessing are the marks of the second and third Chapter s of Deuteronomy, while the first chapter shows disobedience and its fruit. The kingdom of Og in Bashan was a powerful kingdom. The cities had high walls with gates and bars. Their number was sixty. Archaeological research has proven the existence of strong and fortified cities in that territory, the ruins of which may still be seen. The

DEUTERONOMY 3:8 gives an account of the distribution, between Reuben, Gad, and half Manasseh, of the territories taken from the two Amorite kings, Sihon and Og. Deuteronomy 3:8. beyond Jordan: see Deuteronomy 1:1. Deuteronomy 3:9. The same mountain bore the names (_a)_ Hermon, _i.e._ sacred mount, perhaps the root is that of the verb to devote (Deuteronomy 2:34 *), _cf. harem_ (Arabic), temple, women's enclosure; (_b_) Sirion, the Sidonian name; (_c_) Senir (so read in...

WHICH. Note these topographical parentheses, verses: Deuteronomy 3:9; Deuteronomy 3:11; Deuteronomy 3:14, Compare Deuteronomy 2:20; Deuteronomy 2:29. SIRION. breastplate. SHENIR. coat of mail....

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._ 9. _WHICH HERMON THE SIDONIANS CALL SIRION_— _Sirion_ signifies _a mountain._ Now as Hermon, one of the mountains of Gilead, where it joins to Lebanon, rises in the territories of the Sidonians, they term it _the mountain,_ by way of eminence: it is called by this name, Psalms 29:6. _The Amorites call it Shenir,_ it is added; from the _wild cats_ which abounded in this mountain, Bochart conjectures, for _Sinar,_ in Arabic, is the name of that animal: or, perhaps, it might come from _Seir_ or _Sera;_ which, says Le Clerc, signifies a _mountain,_ in Arabic; from whence the Spaniards have borrowed the name _Sierra._ See Bochart's Canaan, lib. 2: cap. 11....