Deuteronomy 2

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 2

Moses, in this chapter, proceeds in the rehearsal of God's providences concerning Israel in their way to Canaan, yet preserves not the record of any thing that happened during their tedious march back to the Red Sea, in which they wore out almost thirty-eight years, but passes that over in silence as a dark time, and makes his narrative to begin again when they faced about towards Canaan (Deut. 2:1-3), and drew towards the countries that were inhabited, concerning which God here gives them... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 2:1-7

Here is, I. A short account of the long stay of Israel in the wilderness: We compassed Mount Seir many days, Deut. 2:1. Nearly thirty-eight years they wandered in the deserts of Seir; probably in some of their rests they staid several years, and never stirred; God by this not only chastised them for their murmuring and unbelief, but, 1. Prepared them for Canaan, by humbling them for sin, teaching them to mortify their lusts, to follow God, and to comfort themselves in him. It is a work of time... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 2:8-23

It is observable here that Moses, speaking of the Edomites (Deut. 2:8), calls them, ?our brethren, the children of Esau.? Though they had been unkind to Israel, in refusing them a peaceable passage through their country, yet he calls them brethren. For, though our relations fail in their duty to us, we must retain a sense of the relation, and not be wanting in our duty to them, as there is occasion. Now in these verses we have, I. The account which Moses gives of the origin of the nations of... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 2:24-37

God having tried the self-denial of his people in forbidding them to meddle with the Moabites and Ammonites, and they having quietly passed by those rich countries, and, though superior in number, not made any attack upon them, here he recompenses them for their obedience by giving them possession of the country of Sihon king of the Amorites. If we forbear what God forbids, we shall receive what he promises, and shall be no losers at last by our obedience, though it may seem for the present to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 2

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 2 In this chapter Moses goes on with his account of the affairs of the people of Israel, and what befell them, how they turned into the wilderness again; but passes over in silence their travels there, till they came to Mount Self, where having been some time they were bid to depart, Deuteronomy 2:1 , and were directed not to meddle with the Edomites, or take anything from them, but pay them for what they should have of them, since they lacked not, ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 2:1

Then we turned ,.... From Kadesh, where they had been many days, and so also their backs on the land of Canaan, on the borders of which they had been: and took our journey into the wilderness, by the way of the Red sea, as the Lord spake unto me ; Deuteronomy 1:40 . and we compassed Mount Seir many days ; many think by Mount Seir is meant the whole mountainous country of Edom, about which they travelled to and fro in the wilderness that lay near it for the space of thirty eight... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 2:2

And the Lord spake unto me ,.... While about Mount Seir: saying ; as follows. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 2:3

Ye have compassed this mountain long enough ,.... It was time to be gone from thence, as from Horeb, Deuteronomy 1:6 , turn you northward ; from the southern border of Edom towards the land of Canaan, which lay north. It was from Eziongeber in the land of Edom, from whence the Israelites came to Kadesh, where they sent messengers to the king of Edom, to desire a passage through his land; see Numbers 33:36 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 2:4

And command thou the people ,.... Give them a strict charge: saying, ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children or Esau : not through the midst of their country, for that the king of Edom would not admit of, but by or on the border of it: and they shall be afraid of you ; lest such a numerous body of people as Israel were should seize upon their country, and dispossess them of it, they having been so long, wanderers in a wilderness near them: take ye good heed... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 2:5

Contend not with them in battle, nor provoke them to it: for I will not give you of their land, no not so much as a foot breadth ; or as the sole of a man's foot can tread on, signifying that they should not have the least part of it, not any at all. Jarchi makes mention of an exposition of theirs, that he would give them nothing of it until should come the day of the treading of the sole of the foot in the mount of Olives, Zechariah 14:4 , meaning not till the days of the Messiah, when... read more

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