Deuteronomy 2:16

And it comes to pass, when all the men of battle have finished dying from the midst of the people,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15and indeed the hand of YHWH has been against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp until they are consumed.

17that YHWH speaks to me, saying,

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Cross References

Genesis 44:4they have gone out of the city—they have not gone far off—and Joseph has said to him who [is] over his house, “Rise, pursue after the men; and you have overtaken them, and you have said to them: Why have you repaid evil for good?

Joshua 5:4And this [is] the thing [for] which Joshua circumcises [them]: all the people who are coming out of Egypt, who are males, all the men of war have died in the wilderness, in the way, in their coming out of Egypt,

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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