Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 3:1-29
From Kadesh to Jordan (2:1-3:29)God told the Israelites that if they went through the land of Edom, they were not to seize any territory. This was partly because Edom was Israel’s brother nation (being descended from Esau), and partly because the Edomites’ territory, formerly possessed by the Horites, had been given them by God (2:1-7). Similar restrictions applied to Israel’s relations with the nations of Moab and Ammon, both of which were also related to Israel (being descended from Lot).... read more
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 3:25
Deuteronomy 3:25. Let me go over For he supposed God’s threatening might be conditional and reversible, as many others were. That goodly mountain Which the Jews not improbably understood of that mountain on which the temple was to be built. This he seems to call that mountain, emphatically and eminently, that which was much in Moses’s thoughts, though not in his eye. read more