Deuteronomy 2:17
in Deuteronomy 2the LORD said to me,
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ASV
that Jehovah spake unto me, saying,
KJV
That the Lord spake unto me, saying,
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This verse in Deuteronomy 2
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
when all the fighting men among the people had died
on Deuteronomy 2:16-19
The word comes again only when the last fighting man has died, so the account resumes where the sentence ends. Ammon is spared on the third turn of the formula, and again the grant runs to "the descendants of Lot", which is Genesis 19:38.
This site's exposition
the LORD said to me
The words match verse 2, and each time they open a new stage of the march. John Gill places this word at the brook Zered or at Dibon-gad. Numbers 33:45 lists Dibon-gad as the camp after Iyim, so the word came as Israel reached the border of Moab.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
), 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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That the Lord spoke unto me,.... At the brook Zered, having passed that, or at Dibongad, which was their next station: saying; as follows.
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 words behind it
4 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר | vaydaber | and he spoke | H1696 → | 1141 times |
| יְהוָ֖ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֵלַ֥י | ʾelai | to me | H413 → | 5510 times |
| לֵאמֹֽר׃ | lemor | <to> saying | H559 → | 5305 times |
וַיְדַבֵּ֥רand he spoke
vaydaberH1696 →1141 times
יְהוָ֖הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֵלַ֥יto me
ʾelaiH413 →5510 times
לֵאמֹֽר׃<to> saying
lemorH559 →5305 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
About Deuteronomy
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.