F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Deuteronomy 2:1-15
Journeying and Dying in the Wilderness Deuteronomy 1:41-46 ; Deuteronomy 2:1-15 We cannot obtain by our impetuosity and insistence what God offers only as a free gift to our faith. The Land of Promise is not to be obtained by strength of hand, but by the soul that lives in the will of God. Even when we are rebellious and unbelieving, God does not forget nor forsake us, Deuteronomy 2:7 . He knows our walking through the great wilderness which we have chosen. Through all the forty years He... read more
Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Deuteronomy 2:1-37
I. THE FIRST DISCOURSEDeuteronomy 1:6 to Deuteronomy 4:401. The command of God for the breaking up from Horeb—and the promise. (Deuteronomy 1:6-8).6The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: 7Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all [his neighbors—see marg.] the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea-side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto... read more