Deuteronomy 3:5 BSB

Deuteronomy 3:5

All these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars, and there were many more unwalled villages.

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ASV

All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many.

KJV

All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars,.... That is, all the cities in the kingdom of Bashan; and though they were, it hindered not their falling into the hands of the Israelites; and this might serve to encourage them against those fears they were possessed of by the spies, with respect to the cities in the land of Canaan; see Num 13:28. besides unwalled towns a great many; small towns and villages adjacent to the several cities, as is common.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

Gates, and bars - literally, “Double gates and a bar.” The stone doors of Bashan, their height pointing to a race of great stature, and the numerous cities (deserted) exist to illustrate the statements of these verses.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
אֵ֜לֶּה	'E.leh	these	H428 →
עָרִ֧ים	'a.Rim	[were] cities	H5892 →
בְּצֻר֛וֹת	be.tzu.Rot	fortified	H1219 →
חוֹמָ֥ה	cho.Mah	wall	H2346 →
גְבֹהָ֖ה	ge.vo.Hah	high	H1364 →
דְּלָתַ֣יִם	de.la.Ta.yim	gates	H1817 →
וּבְרִ֑יחַ	u.ve.Ri.ach	and bar[s]	H1280 →
לְבַ֛ד	le.Vad	<to> apart	H905 →
מֵעָרֵ֥י	me.'a.Rei	from [the] cities of	H5892 →
הַפְּרָזִ֖י	ha.pe.ra.Zi	the hamlet-dweller[s]	H6521 →
הַרְבֵּ֥ה	har.Beh	many	H7235 →
מְאֹֽד׃	me.'Od	very	H3966 →

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

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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 13:28
Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 9:1–2
  Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 1:28
  Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw…
- Joshua 11:22
  No Anakim were left in the land of the Israelites; only in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod did any survive.
- Numbers 13:33
  We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”
Through
Hebrews 11:30
By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the people had marched around them for seven days.
leads to
- Joshua 6:3–20
  March around the city with all the men of war, circling the city one time. Do this for six days.
- 2 Corinthians 10:4–5
  The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
Through
Deuteronomy 1:28
Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw…
leads to
- Numbers 13:28–33
  Nevertheless, the people living in the land are strong, and the cities are large and fortified. We even saw the descendants of Anak there.
- Joshua 14:8
  Although my brothers who went with me made the hearts of the people melt with fear, I remained loyal to the LORD my God.

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