Deuteronomy 2:14

And 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.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
space	וְהַיָּמִ֞ים ve.hai.ya.Mim	H3117	a day (as the warm hours) · conjunction + definite article + noun, common masculine plural absolute
came	הָלַ֣כְנוּ ha.Lakh.nu	H1980	to walk (in a great variety of applications · verb, qal perfect, 1st person common plural
Kadesh-barnea	מִקָּדֵ֣שׁ mi.ka.Desh	H6947	Kadesh-Barnea · preposition + proper noun, a place name
over	עָבַ֙רְנוּ֙ 'a.Var.nu	H5674	to cross over · verb, qal perfect, 1st person common plural
brook	נַ֣חַל Na.chal	H5158	a stream · noun, common masculine singular construct
Zered	זֶ֔רֶד Ze.red	H2218	Zered · proper noun, a place name
thirty	שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים she.lo.Shim	H7970	thirty · noun, common masculine plural absolute
eight	וּשְׁמֹנֶ֖ה u.she.mo.Neh	H8083	a cardinal number · conjunction + noun, common both genders singular absolute
years	שָׁנָ֑ה sha.Nah	H8141	a year (as a revolution of time) · noun, common feminine singular absolute
generation	הַדּ֜וֹר ha.Dor	H1755	properly · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
men	אַנְשֵׁ֤י 'an.Shei	H582	a man in general (singly or collectively) · noun, common masculine plural construct
war	הַמִּלְחָמָה֙ ha.mil.cha.Mah	H4421	a battle (i.e. the engagement) · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
out	תֹּ֨ם tom	H8552	to complete · verb, qal infinitive construct
among	מִקֶּ֣רֶב mi.Ke.rev	H7130	properly · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
host	הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֔ה ha.ma.cha.Neh	H4264	an encampment (of travellers or troops) · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
LORD	יְהוָ֖ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
sware	נִשְׁבַּ֥ע nish.Ba'	H7650	to seven oneself · verb, niphal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Numbers 14:28-35 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:
Numbers 26:64-65 But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilde…
Deuteronomy 1:34-35 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,
Psalms 95:11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
Ezekiel 20:15 Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with mil…
Numbers 13:26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kades…
Deuteronomy 1:2 (There are eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.)
Deuteronomy 1:19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amor…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 2:8-23

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. For, though our relations fail in their duty to us, we must retain a sense of the relation, and not be wanting in our duty to them, as there is occasion. Now in these verses we have, I. The account which Moses gives of the origin of the nations of which he had here occasion to speak, the Moabites, Edomites, and Ammonites. We know very well, from other parts of his history, whose posterity they were; but here he tells us how they came to those countr…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 2:13

Now rise up, and get you over the brook Zered--The southern border of Moab, Zered ("woody"), now Wady Ahsy, separates the modern district of Kerak from Jebal, and, indeed, forms a natural division of the country between the north and south. Ar, called in later times Rabbah, was the capital of Moab and situated twenty-five miles south of the Arnon on the banks of a small but shady stream, the Beni Hamed. It is here mentioned as representative of the country dependent on it, a rich and well-cultivated country, as appears from the numerous ruins of cities, as well as from the traces of tillage still visible on the fields.

John Gill on Deuteronomy 2:14

And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea,.... The space of time; or, "the days" (b); the number of them: until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; that is, from the time that the spies were sent and searched the land, and brought a report of it; for they were sent from Kadeshbarnea, Numbers 32:8 unto the passage of the Israelites over Zered, were thirty eight years; so long they had been travelling in the wilderness, after they were come to the borders of the land: until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host; all that were twenty years old and upwards, and fit to go out to war upon occasion, when the people were first nu…

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Dictionary and topics

Exodus — The great deliverance wrought for the children of Isreal when they were brought out of the land of Egypt with “a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm” (Ex 12:51; Deut. 26:8; Ps 114; 136), about…
Geber — A valiant man, (1 Kings 4:19), one of Solomon’s purveyors, having jurisdiction over a part of Gilead, comprising all the kingdom of Sihon and part of the kingdom of Og (Deut. 2; 31).
Horites — Cave-men, a race of Troglodytes who dwelt in the limestone caves which abounded in Edom. Their ancestor was “Seir,” who probably gave his name to the district where he lived. They were a branch of…
Zered — =Zared, luxuriance; willow bush, a brook or valley communicating with the Dead Sea near its southern extremity (Num. 21:12; Deut. 2:14). It is called the “brook of the willows” (Isa. 15:7) and the…
Desert, Journey Of Israel Through The · Time occupied in going from Kadeshbarnea to this station — Time occupied in going from Kadeshbarnea to this station
Judgments · The forty years of wan — The forty years of wan
Zared · A brook — A brook

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Deuteronomy 2:14

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 2:8-23

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 2:13

John Gill on Deuteronomy 2:14

Dictionary and topics

Deuteronomy 2:14

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 2:8-23

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 2:13

John Gill on Deuteronomy 2:14

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Deuteronomy 2:9-23

Keil & Delitzsch on Deuteronomy 2:1-23

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Deuteronomy 2:13

Rashi on Deuteronomy 2:12