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Deuteronomy 2:4

in Deuteronomy 2

and command the people: ‘You will pass through the territory of your brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, so you must be very careful.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the border of your brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore;

KJV

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:

This verse in Deuteronomy 2

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
Compare the marginal reference. Though the Edomites resisted the passage through the midst of their land, they did not, and probably could not, oppose the “passing through the coast” or along their eastern frontier.

This site's exposition

You will pass through the territory of your brothers

on Deuteronomy 2:4-6

Mount Seir is Esau's by the same kind of grant that gives Canaan to Israel, so there Israel may take "not even a footprint". Numbers 20:14-21 has Edom refusing passage "with a large army", while here Israel passes by and buys food and water.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And command thou the people,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

(3.) They must not expect to have any part of their land given them for a possession: Mount Seir was already settled upon the Edomites, and they must not, under pretence of God's covenant and conduct, think to seize for themselves all they could lay hands on. Dominion is not founded in grace.

The words behind it

16 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.

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • הָעָם֮the people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • צַ֣וcommand

    tzavH6680 →494 times

  • לֵאמֹר֒<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • אַתֶּ֣םyou

    ʾatemH859 →1094 times

  • עֹֽבְרִ֗ים[are] about to pass

    ʾoerimH5674 →556 times

  • בִּגְבוּל֙in [the] territory of

    bigvulH1366 →240 times

  • אֲחֵיכֶ֣םrelatives your

    ʾacheikhemH251 →630 times

  • בְּנֵי־[the] descendants of

    benei-H1121 →4930 times

  • עֵשָׂ֔וEsau

    ʾesavH6215 →97 times

  • הַיֹּשְׁבִ֖יםwho dwell

    haiyoshevimH3427 →1079 times

  • בְּשֵׂעִ֑ירin Seir

    beseirH8165 →39 times

  • וְיִֽירְא֣וּso they may be afraid

    veyireuH3372 →315 times

  • מִכֶּ֔םfrom you

    mikem

  • וְנִשְׁמַרְתֶּ֖םand you will take heed

    venishmartemH8104 →468 times

  • מְאֹֽד׃exceedingly

    meodH3966 →300 times

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

The walk

8 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

    Matthew 5:16

    In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

    it leads to

    • 1 Peter 2:12

      Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.

    • Titus 2:7

      In everything, show yourself to be an example by doing good works. In your teaching show integrity, dignity,

    • John 15:8

      This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples.

    • 1 John 1:5–7

      And this is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you: God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.

    • Philippians 2:15–16

      so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 23:7

    Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 10:19

      So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

    • Exodus 22:21

      You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

    • Exodus 23:9

      Do not oppress a foreign resident, since you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.