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Yahweh said to me, “Don’t bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you any of his land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.”
(The Emim lived there before, a great and numerous people, and tall as the Anakim. These also are considered to be Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
Deuteronomy 2:9-11 sits inside this longer paragraph.
Yahweh said to me, “Don’t bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you any of his land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.”
(The Emim lived there before, a great and numerous people, and tall as the Anakim. These also are considered to be Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim. The Horites also lived in Seir in the past, but the children of Esau succeeded them. They destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place, as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.)
Yahweh said to me, “Don’t bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you any of his land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.”
(The Emim lived there before, a great and numerous people, and tall as the Anakim.
These also are considered to be Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
And the LORD said unto me: 'Be not at enmity with Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give thee of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession. —
The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim;
these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv9–10 Or, besiege.
Or, besiege.
Which were the Moabites and Ammonites.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv9–10 Deu 2:9 And the LORD said unto me, Distress…
Deu 2:9 And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land [for] a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot [for] a possession.
Ver. 9. Because I have given Ar.] The royal city, set upon a hill. {Num 21:15; Num 21:28} God, as a liberal Lord, gives not some small cottage or annuity, for life, to his elder servants, as great men use to do, but bountifully provides for them and theirs to many generations. Who would not serve thee then, O king of nations!
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv9–10 Ar, the chief city of the Moabites, Num 21:15,28,…
Ar, the chief city of the Moabites, Num 21:15,28, here put for the whole country, which depended upon it.
The children of Lot; so called to signify that this preservation was not for their sakes, for they were a wicked people; but for Lot’s sake, whose memory God yet honours.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv9–11 And the Lord said unto me,.... When upon the…
And the Lord said unto me,.... When upon the borders of Moab:
distress not the Moabites, neither contend with than in battle; besiege not any of their cities, nor draw them into a battle, or provoke them to fight:
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for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; at least not as yet, the measure of their sins not being fully up, and the time of their punishment not come; otherwise in David's time they were subdued, and became tributaries to him, and the Edomites also, Sa2 8:2,
because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession; so the Moabites were, they sprung from Moab, a son of Lot by his firstborn daughter, Gen 19:37. Ar was the metropolis of Moab, called Ar of Moab, Isa 15:1 and is here put for the whole country of Moab; so Aben Ezra interprets it of Moab. Jarchi says it is the name of the province; in the Septuagint version it called Aroer.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv9–10 Ar - The chief city of the Moabites, here…
Ar - The chief city of the Moabites, here put for the whole country which depended upon it. The children of Lot - So called to signify that this preservation, was not for their sakes, for they were a wicked people, but for Lot's sake whose memory God yet honours.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv10–11 Verse 10. The Emims dwelt therein] Calmet supposes that…
Verse 10. The Emims dwelt therein] Calmet supposes that these people were destroyed in the war made against them by Chedorlaomer and his allies, Ge 14:5. Lot possessed their country after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha. They are generally esteemed as giants; probably they were a hardy, fierce, and terrible people, who lived, like the wandering Arabs, on the plunder of others. This was sufficient to gain them the appellation of giants, or men of prodigious stature. See next verse.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v10 Deu 2:10-12. The Emims — Men terrible for stature…
Deu 2:10-12. The Emims — Men terrible for stature and strength, as their very name imports, whose expulsion by the Moabites is here noted as a great encouragement to the Israelites, for whose sake he would much more drive out the wicked and accursed Canaanites. Which the Lord gave —
The past tense is here put for the future, will give, after the manner of the prophets.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv9–10 The Moabites and the Ammonites Deu 2:19 being descended…
The Moabites and the Ammonites Deu 2:19 being descended from Lot, the nephew of Abraham Gen 19:30-38, were, like the Edomites, kinsmen of the Israelites.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv9–11 Moabites. They allowed the Hebrews to pass, as the…
Moabites. They allowed the Hebrews to pass, as the Idumeans had done; (ver. 29,) but they treated them with no particular marks of affection, (chap. xxiii. 3,) nor would they suffer them to go across their country, Judges xi. 17. --- Ar is sometimes called Rabbah Moab, "the great city of the Moabites," (Josue xiii. 25,) and Areopolis. (Eusebius)
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv9–10 9. Distress not the Moabites — The Moabites and…
9. Distress not the Moabites — The Moabites and Ammonites, descendants of Lot, were the kinsmen of the Israelites.
Ar — Here the capital is put for the whole land of Moab.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv9–11 9. Vex not Moab] Treat not Moab as a…
9. Vex not Moab] Treat not Moab as a foe.
neither contend with them] See on Deu_2:5.
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Ar] ‘Ar (Num_21:15) or ‘Ar of Mo’ab (id. 28) is in these passages a township, probably the same as ‘Ir, or City of, Mo’ab, on the border of Arnon at the end of the border (JE, Num_22:36). Musil identifies it with the strong site and ruins of Medeyyneh on an upper tributary of the W. Môjeb or Arnon (see below on Deu_2:24; Deu_2:36) on the edge of the desert (Moab 247, 338 ff. with photo. and plan; cp. the present writer in Enc. Bibl., art. ‘Ar’ and Expositor, seventh series, vol. vii. 138 ff.). But in Syria names have been at all times apt to extend from towns, especially capitals, to their districts and vice versâ. Here ‘Ar obviously is a district: the territory of Mo’ab. So in Isa_15:1, LXX render ‘Ar Mo’ab by ἡ Μωαβεῖτις. At the time of Israel’s march the name would cover all the land between the W. el-Ḥsa and the W. Môjeb or Arnon, to the S, of which Mo’ab were confined by the Amorites.
children of Lot] Gen_19:37; Psa_83:8 (9).
Deu_2:9 is in the Sg. address and elided by Steuern. as the addition of a later hand. But some such warning as it gives in regard to the relations of Israel to Mo’ab was to be expected in this discourse, similar to that on Israel’s relations to Edom and ‘Ammon. The change to the Sg. may be due either to the fact that Moses himself is addressed or because for the moment Israel, in relation to Mo’ab, is regarded as a single whole. Sam. confirms the Heb. Sg.; but LXX has the Pl.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv9–10 (9) Distress not the Moabites . . . I…
(9) Distress not the Moabites . . . I have given Ar unto the children of Lot.—The children of Lot, like those of Ishmael and Esau, had their earthly inheritance before the children of Abraham.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv9–10 The Moabites, being the descendants of Lot, and so…
The Moabites, being the descendants of Lot, and so allied by race to the Israelites, the latter were commanded to pass through their country without offering them any injury or assault. Ar, a border-town of, (Num_21:15) here put for the country itself. It is the Areopolis of the Greeks, and was, as Jerome tells us, destroyed in a single night by an earthquake. A hill with ruins a short distance southwest from Ara"ir, is supposed to be its site.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain On v9 given Ar
given Ar
A region east of the Dead Sea.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv9–10 General Information:
General Information:
This is the end of a part of Moses' speech reminding the Israelites of how Yahweh guided them in the wilderness. (See: Background Information)
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Do not trouble Moab
The word "Moab" represents the people of Moab. AT: "Do not trouble the people of Moab" (See: Metonymy)
Ar
This is the name of a city in Moab. (See: How to Translate Names)
the descendants of Lot
The people of Israel were related to the descendants of Moab. Moab was the son of Lot. Lot was the nephew of Abraham. (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
translationWords
Yahweh
Moab
possess
descend
Lot
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv9–11 2:9 Following the destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, and the…
2:9 Following the destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, and the other cities of the plain, Lot (Abraham’s nephew and Isaac’s cousin) and his two unmarried daughters sheltered in a cave east of the Dead Sea (see Gen 19:30-38), where Lot’s daughters plied their father with drink until he had sexual relations with them. Their descendants became the nations of Moab and Ammon. Because of their kinship with Israel, the Moabites were to be left undisturbed. David’s great-grandmother Ruth descended from Moab (Ruth 1:4), and David sent his own family to the land of Moab for protection when he was pursued by Saul (1 Sam 22:3-5). • Ar was probably the capital of Moab.
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