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Deuteronomy 2:15 KJV
Deuteronomy · chapter 2 · verse 15
For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.Deuteronomy 2:15 · King James Version
Deuteronomy 2:15 in context
13Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.
14And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.
15For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
16So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
17That the LORD spake unto me, saying,
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- destroyhâmamproperly, to put in commotionH2000 →
- amongqerebproperly, the nearest partH7130 →
- handyâda handH3027 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- hostmachănehan encampmentH4264 →
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It is observable here that Moses, speaking of the Edomites (Deu 2:8), calls them, "our brethren, the children of Esau." Though they had been unkind to Israel, in refusing them a peaceable passage through their country, yet he calls them brethren.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 8-23