Deuteronomy 2:15

And also the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp; until they were spent.

Leeser Tanakh

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 time which we came from Kadesh-barnea', until we had passed over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were spent from out the midst of the camp, as the Lord had sworn unto them.

16So it came to pass, when all the men of war were spent by, dying from the midst of the people,

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Cross References

1 Samuel 5:6And the hand of the Lord became heavy upon the people of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with hemorrhoids, even Ashdod and its territory.

1 Samuel 5:11So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, that it may return to its own place, so that it may not slay us, and our people; for there was a confusion of death throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.

Psalms 32:4For by day and night lay thy hand heavily upon me: my [life's] moisture hath been changed through the droughts of summer. Selah.

Psalms 90:7For [thus] are we consumed by thy anger, and by thy fury are we terrified.

Isaiah 66:14And ye shall see this, and your heart shall be glad, and your bones shall flourish like the grass; and then will be known the hand of the Lord on his servants, and he will be indignant toward 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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