Deuteronomy 2:15

Moreover the hand of the LORD was against them, to discomfit them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.

In Context

14And the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty and eight years; until all the generation, even the men of war, were consumed from the midst of the camp, as the LORD swore unto them.

16So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

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Cross References

1 Samuel 5:6But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and He destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the borders thereof.

1 Samuel 5:11They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said: 'Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go back to its own place, that it slay us not, and our people'; for there was a deadly discomfiture throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.

Psalms 32:4For day and night Thy hand was heavy upon me; my sap was turned as in the droughts of summer. Selah

Psalms 90:7For we are consumed in Thine anger, and by Thy wrath are we hurried away.

Isaiah 66:14And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like young grass; and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward His servants, and He will have indignation against His enemies.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 2:9-24

8 And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. 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. 10 The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;… Read the whole commentary →

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