aps IE. [ » The chief City of the Moabires, Numb. 21. 15. 28. here put for | | i the whole Country which depended upon it. 0So called to ſignifie | | | cd people, but for Lots ſake whoſe memory God yet honours. kn © 2 The Emimsp dwele therein in times paſt,a people p Men tersible for ſtature and ſtrength, as their very name 1M- ports. See Gen. 14. 5. whoſe expulſion by the Moabires is here noted much more drive out the wicked and accurſed Canaanres. 11 Which alſo were accounted giants ; as the Ana- 12 *The Horims q alſo dwelt in Seir before-time, but the children of Eſau +{ucceeded them, when they had IDr, rom. ſtead, as Ifrael did unto the land of his poſſeſſion, which the LORD gave unto them r. given it unto them. ſw. 1. The paſt tenſe is here pur for the fu- cure, will give, after the manner of the Prophets. 2. Things are ofc ted to be done, in which ſenſe Reuben is ſaid to deliver Joſeph, Gen: 37. 22. Balak to fight againſt iſrael, Joſ. 24. 9. Abraham to have offered not only becauſe he had purpoſed and promiſed to give ir, but alſo becauſe he was now about to give it, and had already given them be particularly underſtood of that part of {raels poſſeſſion which was beyond Jordan, which God had aQually given to them, that is, to not given to all of them, bur only to ſome of the tribes. 13 Now riſe up, «id 1, and get ye over * the || brook 14 And the ſpace in which we came from Kadeſh- Barnea, until we were come over the,brook Zered, 24s of war were waſted out from among the hoſt, as the LORD ſware unto them. them, to deſtroy them from among the hoſt, until they were conſumed. conſumed and dead from among the people. 17 That the LORD ſpake unto me, ſaying, - Moab s, this day. ; s Or, to paſs by the border of Moab, by Ar. : dren of Ammon, diſtreſs them not, nor meddle with them: For I will not give thee of the land of the chil unto the children of Lot fer a poſleflion. | ' 20 (That alſo was accounted a land of giants: giants *Zamzummaims ? ; | £ Which ſignifies men moſt wicked and abominable, or moſt preſump- 21 A people great,and many,and tall as the Anakims: but the LORD deſtroyed them before them «, and they « Who therefore will certainly do as much for his own people. 22 As he did tothe children of Eſau, * which dwelt them, and they ſucceeded them, and dwelt in their ſtead, even unto this day. | "unto Azzah, the Caphtorims x, which came forth out of Caphtor y, deſtroyed them, and dwelt in their ſtead.) with them in this enterprize, and ſo dwelling together, and by de-, grees were probably united rogether by Marriages or otherways,and Philiſtines, See Jer. 47. 4. Amos 9.7. ) Which is by the Learned thong to be Cappadocia, Whither theſe people might make an
| given Ar» unto the. children of Lot o for a poſſeſſion. that this preſervation, was not for. their ſakes, for they were a wick- 28,33- great and many. andtall as * the Anakims. as 4 great encouragement to the 7/raelites, for whoſe ſake he would | | en. 36. Kims : but the Moabites call them Emims. deſtroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their || q Of whom ſee Ger. 14. 6. and 36. 20. 7 0bj. God had nor yet ſaid to be done, when they arc only reſolved, or decreed, or attemp- his ſon; Heb. 11. 17. 3. God may well be faid to have given it, ſome part of it, and that as an earneſt of the whole. ſame of them, for even the land of Canaan on this fide Jordan, was ered: and we went over the brook Zered. thirty andeight years,until all the generation ofthe men 15 For indeed the hand of the LORD was againſt 16 So it came to paſs when all the men of war were 18 Thou art to paſs over through Ar, the I9 And »hes thou comelt nigh over againſt the chil- dren of Ammon #»y polleffion, becauſe I have given it dwelt therein in oldtime, and the Ammonires call them rzuous, or maſt crafty. ſucceeded them, and dwelt in their ſtead. in Seir, when he deſtroyed the Horims from before 22 "And the * Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, ever x A people a kin to the Philiſtines, Gen. 10. 14. and confederate became one people, the Caphrorims being at laſt ſwallowed up in the expedition out of Egypt, either becauſe of the report of the great
Riches of part of that Country which drew others thither from places equally remote, or after the manner of thoſe ancient times,
* Numb. or for ſome other reaſon now unknown?
21.3, 16, 24 Riſe ye up, take your journey, and * paſs over + Heb. be- the river Arnon: behold, I hare given into thy hand giv, 29ſ2ſ. $jhon the Amorite, King of Heſhbon, and his land: + begin to poſſeſs zz, and contend with him 3n barrel.
25 This day will I begin to put the dread of thee, and the fear of thee upon the nations hat are under the whole heaven 2, who ſhall hear report of thee,and ſhall tremble, and be in anguiſh becauſe of thee.
z Which is a Synecdoche and an Hyperbole, but is explained by the following words, which reſtrain the ſentence to thoſe nations
that heard otthem. | 26 And 1 ſent Meſſengers out of the wilderneſs of
Kedemoth a, unto Sihon king of Heſhbon, * with
| werds of peace b, ſaying, & So called from a city of that
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j 21. 15. 28. Joſ. 12.2. and 13. 9. He ſpeaks excluſively, for this
mom, Numb 20. 6 With offers of 1 | _—_ _ L . 2I. 20. ith 0 their deſtruftion was highly juſt TIT woes my 27 * Let me paſs through thy land; I will go along by the high way c, I will neither turn unto the right "Numb, _—_ _ to the leſt. ; A. c In my dire& road to Canaan, fr '1 into thy Fields, or Vines, X, —-— "_qg 2 28 Thou ſbalr ſell me meat for money,that T may eat and give me water for money, thatT may drink : 'only I will paſs through en my feet 4. : d Or, with my foot-men,or with my company which are on foot : which
is added ſignificantly, becauſe if their Army had conſiſted as much
of Horſemen as many other Armies did, their paſſage thiough his.
land might have been more miſchievous and &ai;o 3B = 0099. fey us and dangerous: Bur they
29 (As the children of Eſau which dwell in Scir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me e) until I ſhall paſs over Jordan, into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.