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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

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 2:6

That is, if they would, as Aben Ezra observes; for though they had manna daily, yet if they would they might buy other food when they had an opportunity, as they would now have of Edom; but then they were not to take it by force or stealth, but pay for it, which they were able to do. The same writer observes, that some read the words with an interrogation, "shall ye buy meat?" no, there is no need of it; for the Lord had blessed them with a sufficiency of it: and ye shall also buy water of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 2:7

For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thine hands ,.... Had increased their cattle and substance, even though in a wilderness: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness ; every step they took, and he owned them and prospered them in all things in which they were concerned: these forty years the Lord thy God hath been with thee : not only to protect and defend them, but to provide all things necessary for them. This number of years was not fully... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 2:8

And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Self ,.... Along their coasts, by the borders of their country: through the way of the plain ; the wilderness of Zin, where Kadesh was: from Elath and Eziongeber ; the two ports on the shore of the Red sea in the land of Edom; it was from the latter they came to Kadesh; see Numbers 33:35 . Elath was ten miles from Petra, the metropolis of Edom, to the east of it, as Jerom says F26 De loc. Heb. fol. 91.... read more

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