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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Deuteronomy 2

Chapter 2

Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.

we turned

1:40 Numbers 14:25

we compassed

1:2 Numbers 21:4 Judges 11:18

Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.

long enough

7,14 1:6

And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:

Ye are to pass

23:7 Numbers 20:14-21 Obadiah 1:10-13

they shall

Exodus 15:15 Numbers 22:3,4 24:14-18

take ye

Matthew 5:16 Luke 12:15 Ephesians 5:15 Philippians 2:15 Colossians 4:5

Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.

no, not so much as a foot breadth

Heb. even to the treading of the sole of the foot.

Acts 7:5

because

32:8 Genesis 36:8 Joshua 24:4 2 Chronicles 20:10-12 Jeremiah 27:5 Daniel 4:25,32 Acts 17:26

Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.

28,29 Numbers 20:19 Matthew 7:12 Romans 12:17 2 Thessalonians 3:7,8

For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.

blessed

Genesis 12:2 24:35 26:12 30:27 39:5 Psalms 90:17

he knoweth

Job 23:10 Psalms 1:6 31:7 John 10:27

these forty

8:2-4 29:5 Nehemiah 9:21 Luke 22:35

And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

And when

Numbers 20:20,21 Judges 11:18

Elath

1 Kings 9:26

Eloth

2 Kings 14:22 16:6

And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.

Distress not the Moabites

or, Use no hostility against Moab.

Numbers 22:4 Judges 11:17 2 Chronicles 20:10

Ar

Ar was situated south of the Arnon; and was called by the Greek writers Areopolis, and thought by them to be so named because the inhabitants worshipped [Ares] or Mars. St. Jerome says that it was destroyed by an earthquake when he was an infant. Burckhardt supposes that the ruins of a small castle called Mehatet el Hadj, may be the site of this ancient city.

5 Numbers 21:15,28

the children

19 Genesis 19:36,37 Psalms 83:8

The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;

11 Genesis 14:5

Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.

as the Anakims

1:28 9:2 Numbers 13:22,28,33

The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.

Horims

22 Genesis 14:6 36:20-30 1 Chronicles 1:38-42

succeeded them

Heb. inherited them.

Genesis 36:31-43 1 Chronicles 1:43-54

stead

or, room. as Israel did. Israel had, at the time when Moses spake this, conquered Sihon and Og, and taken possession of their countries, as Edom had done to the Horims.

22,32-37 3:1-11 Genesis 36:20 Numbers 21:21-35

Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.

brook

or, valley.

Numbers 13:23 *marg:

Zered

The brook or torrent Zered, takes its rise in the mountains of Moab, and, running from east to west, falls into the Dead Sea. It seems to be the stream which Burckhardt calls Wady Beni Hammad, south of the Modjeb or Arnon, and about five hours north of Kerek.

Numbers 21:12

Zared

Verse 14

And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.

Kadesh-barnea

1:2,19,46 Numbers 13:26

until all the generation

1:34,35 Numbers 14:28-35 26:64,65 32:11 Psalms 90:3,9 95:11 Ezekiel 20:15 Hebrews 3:8-19 Jude 1:5

For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.

the hand of the

Judges 2:15 1 Samuel 5:6,9,11 7:13 Psalms 32:4 78:33 90:7-9 106:26 Isaiah 66:14 1 Corinthians 10:5

Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:

Numbers 21:15,23 Isaiah 15:1

And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.

5,9 Genesis 19:36-38 Judges 11:13-27 2 Chronicles 20:10

(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;

Zamzummims

Genesis 14:5

Zuzims

Verse 21

A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:

great

10,11 1:28 3:11

but the Lord

These fragments of ancient history seem to be introduced to encourage the Israelites. If the Lord destroyed these gigantic people before the posterity of Lot and of Esau, what cause had the posterity of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, his chosen servants and friends, to fear the Anakims, or the Canaanites? especially as Israel acted by commission from God, and had his promise as their security of success, and the pledge of it in his presence, and the wonders which he had already wrought for them; and as they were the only nation of worshippers of the Lord, in the ordinances of his institution, which could be found on earth. This is so often repeated to possess the minds of the Israelites with a sense of God's providence, which rules every where; displacing one people, and placing another in their stead; and fixing their bounds also, which they cannot pass without his leave.

22 Judges 11:24 Jeremiah 27:7,8 Habakkuk 1:10,11

As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day:

Esau

Genesis 36:8

the Horims

12 Genesis 14:6 36:20-30 1 Chronicles 1:38-42

And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)

the Avims

Joshua 13:3

Avites

Azzah.

1 Kings 4:24 Jeremiah 25:20 Zephaniah 2:4 Zechariah 9:5

Gaza

the Caphtorims which came.

Genesis 10:14 Jeremiah 47:4 Amos 9:7 Acts 17:26

Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.

the river Arnon

36 Numbers 21:13-15 Judges 11:18-21

behold

Joshua 6:16 2 Chronicles 36:23 Ezra 1:2 Jeremiah 27:5 Ezekiel 29:20 Daniel 2:38 4:17

begin to possess it

Heb. begin, possess.

This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.

11:25 28:10 Exodus 15:14-16 23:27 Joshua 2:9-12 9:24 2 Kings 7:6,7 Psalms 105:38 Jeremiah 33:9 Revelation 3:9

And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

Kedemoth

Joshua 13:18 21:37

with words

20:10,11 Esther 9:30 Matthew 10:12-15 Luke 10:5,6,10-12

Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.

6 Numbers 21:21-23 Judges 11:19

Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet;

only I will pass

Numbers 20:19

(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.

As the children

It appears to have been only the Edomites of Kadesh-barnea, south of Canaan, who denied the Israelites a passage; for those of mount Seir, now called Shera, are here expressly said to have granted it them: and this, in fact, was the very road by which they arrived at Canaan.

23:3,4 Numbers 20:18 Judges 11:17,18

into the land

4:1,21,40 5:16 9:6 25:15 Exodus 20:12 Joshua 1:11-15

But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.

for the Lord

Exodus 4:21 11:10 Numbers 21:23 Joshua 11:19,20 Judges 11:20 Romans 9:17-23

obstinate

Isaiah 48:4

And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land.

give Sihon

24 1:8

Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.

Numbers 21:23-30 Judges 11:20-23 Nehemiah 9:22 Psalms 120:7 135:11 136:19

And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.

the Lord

3:2,3 7:2 20:16 Genesis 14:20 Joshua 21:44 Judges 1:4 7:2

we smote

29:7,8 Numbers 21:24 Joshua 10:30-42

And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:

utterly destroyed

7:2,26 20:16-18 Leviticus 27:28,29 Numbers 21:2,3 Joshua 7:11 8:25,26 9:24 Joshua 11:14 1 Samuel 15:3,8,9

the men, and the women, and the little ones of every city

Heb. every city of men, and women, and little ones.

Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.

20:14 Numbers 31:9-11 Joshua 8:27

From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us:

Aroer

3:12 4:48 Joshua 13:9 Isaiah 17:2 Jeremiah 48:19

not

Joshua 1:5 Psalms 44:3 Isaiah 41:15,16 Romans 8:31

Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us.

unto the land

5,9,19 3:16 Judges 11:15

Jabbok

Genesis 32:22 Numbers 21:24 Joshua 12:2