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Deuteronomy 2:16

in Deuteronomy 2

Now when all the fighting men among the people had died,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

KJV

So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

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This verse in Deuteronomy 2

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

when all the men of war were consumed

on Deuteronomy 2:16-19

The word comes again only when the last of the men of war is dead, so the account resumes exactly where the sentence ends. Ammon is spared on the third turn of the same formula, and once more the grant is traced to Lot rather than to Ammon, which is Genesis 19:38. Judges 11:12-27 has Jephthah answer an Ammonite land claim by rehearsing these marches, that Israel took nothing of Moab or of Ammon and held only what Sihon had held, and he reckons three hundred years since, so the borders of this chapter were still being argued long afterward.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), righteous Lot, who kept his integrity in Sodom. Note, Children often fare the better in this world for the piety of their ancestors: the seed of the upright, though they degenerate, yet are blessed with temporal good things. Because the land they were possessed of was what God had given them, and he did not design it for Israel.

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So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed,.... By wasting diseases and judgments of one kind or another: and dead from among the people; the rising and surviving generation.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

If the providence of God had done this for the Moabites and Ammonites, much more would his promise do it for Israel his peculiar people. The advances which Israel made towards Canaan.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

For that generation, though not universally abandoned to heathenish and idolatrous practices, yet had all along displayed a fearful amount of ungodliness in the desert, which this history only hints at obscurely, but which is expressly asserted elsewhere (Eze 20:25, 26;

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The words behind it

9 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיְהִ֨יand it was

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • כַאֲשֶׁר־just when

    khaasher-H834 →5497 times

  • תַּ֜מּוּthey had finished

    tamuH8552 →63 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • אַנְשֵׁ֧י[the] men of

    ʾansheiH582 →566 times

  • הַמִּלְחָמָ֛ה<the> war

    hamilchamahH4421 →320 times

  • לָמ֖וּתto die

    lamutH4191 →839 times

  • מִקֶּ֥רֶבfrom [the] midst of

    mikerevH7130 →227 times

  • הָעָֽם׃ סthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

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About Deuteronomy

Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Deuteronomy: the study guide →Read Deuteronomy 2 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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