Deuteronomy 2:15

Moreover, the hand of Yahweh was against that generation in order to destroy them from the people until they were gone.

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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

14Now the days from when we came from Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the brook Zered, were thirty-eight years. It was by that time that all that generation of the men fit for fighting were gone from the people, as Yahweh had sworn to them.

16So it happened, when all the men fit for fighting were dead and gone from among the people,

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Cross References

1 Samuel 5:6Yahweh's hand was heavy upon the people of Ashdod. He destroyed them and afflicted them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territories.

1 Samuel 5:11So they sent for and gathered together all of the rulers of the Philistines; they said to them, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its own place, so that it does not kill us and our people.” For there was a deathly panic throughout the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.

Psalms 32:4For day and night your hand was heavy upon me. 1 My strength withered as in summer drought. Selah 1

Psalms 90:7Truly, we are consumed in your anger, 1 and in your wrath we are terrified. 1

Isaiah 66:14You will see this, and your heart will rejoice, and your bones will sprout like the tender grass. 1 The hand of Yahweh will be made known to his servants, but he will show his anger against his enemies. 1

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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