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Deuteronomy 2:28

in Deuteronomy 2

You can sell us food to eat and water to drink in exchange for silver. Only let us pass through on foot,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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;

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This verse in Deuteronomy 2

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Rise ye up . . . and pass over the river Arnon--At its mouth, this stream is eighty-two feet wide and four deep. It flows in a channel banked by perpendicular cliffs of sandstone.

This site's exposition

out of the wilderness of Kedemoth

on Deuteronomy 2:26-29

The embassy is the one at Numbers 21:21-23, told there in the third person and here by the man who sent it. Chapter 20:10 will make an offer of peace the required first move against a city, and this offer is that rule acted out before it is written down. Verse 29 argues from precedent, that Esau and Moab had already sold Israel food and water, which puts the transaction of verse 6 to work as a reference.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

On my feet - Or, with my company who are on foot: which is added significantly, because if their army had consisted as much of horsemen as many other armies did, their passage through his land might have been more mischievous and dangerous.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Moses herein did neither disobey God, who bade him contend with Sihon, nor dissemble with Sihon; but doubtless it was by divine direction that he did it, that Sihon might be left inexcusable, though God hardened his heart. This may illustrate the method of God's dealing with those to whom he gives his gospel, but does not give grace to believe it.
Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat,.... If they thought fit to have provision of them, they desired no other but to pay for it: and give me water for money, that I may drink; see Deu 2:6, only I will pass through on my feet; for they were all footmen, Num 11:21, of the phrase; see Gill on Num 20:19.

The words behind it

12 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.

  • אֹ֣כֶלfood

    ʾokhelH400 →43 times

  • בַּכֶּ֤סֶףfor <the> silver

    bakesefH3701 →403 times

  • תַּשְׁבִּרֵ֙נִי֙you will sell me

    tashbireniH7666 →

  • וְאָכַ֔לְתִּיand I will eat

    veakhaltiH398 →810 times

  • וּמַ֛יִםand water

    umayimH4325 →581 times

  • בַּכֶּ֥סֶףfor <the> silver

    bakesefH3701 →403 times

  • תִּתֶּן־you will give

    titen-H5414 →2011 times

  • לִ֖יto me

    li

  • וְשָׁתִ֑יתִיand I will drink

    veshatitiH8354 →217 times

  • רַ֖קonly

    rakH7535 →109 times

  • אֶעְבְּרָ֥הlet me pass through

    ʾe'berahH5674 →556 times

  • בְרַגְלָֽי׃on feet my

    veraglaiH7272 →247 times

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

Related verses

1 in all, six open

The walk

2 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Numbers 20:19

    “We will stay on the main road,” the Israelites replied, “and if we or our herds drink your water, we will pay for it. There will be no problem; only let us pass through…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 2:6

      You are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.’”

    • Exodus 12:38

      And a mixed multitude also went up with them, along with great droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.

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); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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