e Oj. The King of Elom, 7.e. of the children of Eſav, did not gra them paſſage, Numb. 20. Anſw. They did permit them s —_ Sts Iy by the borders, though not through the heart of their lanc,, and In their paſſage the people ſold them meat and drink, being it ſ.cms more kind to them than their king would have had them ; ang there- fore they here aſcribe this favour not to the king, though they are now treatin g with a King, but tothe people, the children of Eſqu.
30 But Sihon king of Heſbbon would not ler us paſs by him f': For * the LORD thy God hardened his ſpi- rit, and made his heart obftinate g, that he might de- _— a me chy hand, as appeareth this day.
z.e. By his Borders. & Unmoveable and inexorable to our def
31 And the LORD faid unto me, Behoid, I have he gun to give Sihon and his land before thee, begin to polieſs, chatthou mayeſt inherir his land.
32 * Then Sihon came out againſt us, he and all his
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33 And the LORD our God delivered him before us Kara | and we ſmote him, and hisſons, and all his people. : 34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly
deſtroyed g the + men, and the women, and the little t Heb-
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ones of every city, we left none to remain.
gs By God's command, theſe being a part of thoſe peo were devouted by the Lord of life and death, to vitve ho for their abominable wickedneſs. |
35 and the ſpoil of the cities which we took ;
36 From Aroer h, which s by the brink of the river of Arnon, and froms the city that 5s by the river 3, even unto Gilead, there was not one City too ſtrong for us? | the LORD our God delivered all unto us. ;
h Which was in the border of Moab, but now in the hands of t! Amorites, i Heb. In the river, wherewith it was encompaſled, Namb,
was 4r, which now wasin the Moabites juriſdiftion, above v. 9 37 Only unto the land of the children of Ammon
thou cameſt not, nr unto any place of the river * Jab= Gen xx; en.32
Only thecartel we took for a prey unto our ſelves f Þ
bok &, nor unto the ciries in the mountains, mover the LORD ourGod forbad us w 27, e, Beyond 7abbok, for that was the border of ; 2 , for that w: the 4 gp Obj. Half the land Ly 7 the Amonites is ſaid to be given EE. Gad, Joſ. 13. 27. Anſw. This is true of thet half of it which the Aonh. 24 had taken from them, but not of the other half which yet wasin the poſſeſſion of the Amonites. I The mountainous Country of the 4 _ mM - eb. GIO us, commanding is put for forbidding "vw en. 2,16.and ;.11. Lev. 4. 2. Deut. 4. 23. The w thus rendered, Concerning which the Lord gave us OOOANY Bs ” wit, that we ſhould not meddle with them, as was ſaid before. o1t1s only anellipſis of the prepoſition, which is very frequent =P TO CHAF BL : er march to Baſhan, x. Og its King is put to flight, they þ 2—711. which: is diſtrivuted to two Tribes _ half, -4.-thog gr are commanded to aſſiſt their Brethren to poſſeſs the land beyond Jordan ———_ 20. Moſes encourages Joſhua, $722. #7 Prayer ro go into the promiſed land, 23-25. God grants not his requeſt, 26. He gives him a proſpett of it, 27. and bids him encourage Joſuah, 28. Hen we turned, and went up the way to Baſhan and " Og the King of Baſhan came out again Us: he and all his peopie to battel at Edrei *N And the LORD fai ar hi 17 2 aid unto me, Fear him not a: For 21.33. Kc. I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land into NG thy hand,and thou ſhalt do unto him,as thou didſt unto* *Numb Sihon King ofthe Amorites, which dwelt at Heſhbon, 27: 24: 2 Though he be of ſo frightful a lookand ſtature, v. 17. 3 So the LORD our Ged delivered into our hands * Og alſothe King of Baſhan, and all his peeple : and we Numb. | {mote him, until none was left to him remaining. Eh 4 And we took all hiscities at that time, there was not a City which we took not from them; threeſcore cities all the region of Argob b the kingdom of Og in Baſhan, b A Province within Baſhan, or at leaſt ſubje& and belonging bo
Baſban, as appears from v. 13. and 1 Kin : _- . gs, . I . called A # ſibly from the name ofa man its former Los _ owner. rg0b, pol:
5 All theſe cities were fenced with high walls, gates,
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withſtanding the fenced cities which the ſpies told you of,and you m Fi = utterly deſtroyed them, as we did unto Si- hon King, of Heſhbon, utterly deſtroying the men,wo- men, and. children of eyery
7 But all the cattel,and the for a prey to our ſelves.
$ And we took att two Kings of theAmorites,t Jordan d,fromthe river of Ar
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2. ſoil of the cities, we took
hat time out of the hand of the he land that was on this ſide non,unto mount — e: when Moſes wrote this book, but afterward when
tee paſſed. _ Jordan it was called the land beyond Jordan. "9 ( Which Hermon the Zidonians cali S1r1on : and the
-ites Call it Shenir) e. ASIC called _ and Libanus or Lebanon,and here Shenir, and Sirion, and, by abbreviation, Sow, Dent. 4. 48. Which ſeveral names are given to this one mountain partly by ng peo- ple, and partly in cegard of ſeveral tops and parts of it, whence Schenir and Hermon are mentioned as diſtinCt places, Cant. 4. S. je ro All the cities of the plain,and all Gilead f, and all Baſhan, :unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the king-
dom of Og in Baſhan. | f Gilead Sy, norm taken largely for all the 1/-aelites poſſeſſions beyond Jorday, arid ſo it comprehends Baſban, but here more ſri ly for that part. of it which lyes in and near. mount Gilead, and fo it is diſtinguiſhed from Baſbar and 4gob. 42s 11 For only Og king of Baſhan remained of the rem- nant of giants g : behoid, his bedſtead was a bedſtcad of iron : js it not in * Rabbath of the children of Ammon #? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubirs the
breadth of it, after the cubit of a man &. _..