Deuteronomy 2:13 BSB

Deuteronomy 2:13

“Now arise and cross over the Brook of Zered.” So we crossed over the Brook of Zered.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The words, “said I,” are not in the Hebrew. The words “rise up, and get you over the brook Zered” (Num 21:12 note) connect themselves with Deu 2:9, and form the conclusion of what God said to Moses.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
עַתָּ֗ה	'a.Tah	now	H6258 →
קֻ֛מוּ	Ku.mu	arise	H6965 →
וְעִבְר֥וּ	ve.'iv.Ru	and pass over	H5674 →
לָכֶ֖ם	la.Khem	<for> yourselves
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
נַ֣חַל	Na.chal	[the] wadi of	H5158 →
זָ֑רֶד	Za.red	Zered	H2218 →
וַֽנַּעֲבֹ֖ר	va.na.'a.Vor	and we passed over	H5674 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
נַ֥חַל	Na.chal	[the] wadi of	H5158 →
זָֽרֶד׃	Za.red	Zered	H2218 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk5

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Numbers 13:23
When they came to the Valley of Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes, which they carried on a pole between two men. They also took some pomegranates and…
leads to
- Numbers 13:24
  Because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut there, that place was called the Valley of Eshcol.
- Numbers 32:9
  For when your fathers went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land that the LORD had given them.
- Deuteronomy 1:24–25
  They left and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied out the land.
- Judges 16:4
  Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
Through
Numbers 21:12
From there they set out and camped in the Valley of Zered.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 2:13–14
  “Now arise and cross over the Brook of Zered.” So we crossed over the Brook of Zered.

About Deuteronomy

Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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06About Deuteronomy

Where the connections lead

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About Deuteronomy