Verse-by-Verse Bible CommentaryDeuteronomy 3:18
"Then I commanded you at that time, saying, `The LORD your God has given you this land to possess it; all you valiant men shall cross over armed before your brothers, the sons of Israel. Jump to: Gill's Exposition • Geneva Study Bible • Wesley's Notes • Calvin's Commentary • Poole's Annotations • Benson's Commentary • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes • Treasury of Knowledge Other Authors
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole BibleAnd I commanded you at that time,.... Not all Israel, but the tribes of Reuben and God, and the half tribe of Manasseh; for what follows only concerns them: saying, the Lord your God hath given you this land to possess it; the land before described, lately in the hands of Sihon and Og; this at their request Moses gave them, by the direction of the Lord, on the following condition: you shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war; that is, they should pass over Jordan with the rest of the tribes, being armed to assist them in the conquest of Canaan: for this phrase, which we render "before your brethren", does not signify that they went in the forefront of them, only that they were present with them, and joined them in their war against their enemies; see Numbers 32:29 and therefore should be rendered "with your brethren" Copyright Statement Bibliography Geneva Study BibleAnd I commanded g you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all [that are] meet for the war.(g) That is, the Reubenites, Gadites, and half Manasseh, as in (Numbers 32:32). Copyright Statement Bibliography Wesley's Explanatory NotesAnd I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war. You — Namely, the Reubenites and Gadites. All that are meet — In such number as your our brethren shall judge necessary. They were in all above an hundred thousand. Forty thousand of them went over Jordan before their brethren. Copyright Statement Bibliography Calvin's Commentary on the Bible18.And I commanded you at that time. This address is directed only to those to whom an inheritance was given on the other side of Jordan; but Moses declares that he had introduced an agreement that the two tribes and a half should not enjoy their possession until they had accommpanied their brethren in the subjugation of the land of Canaan. He says, therefore, that he had given them a place, not where they were at once to settle themselves, but where they might deposit their wives and cattle, until the whole people were peaceably established in their land. Copyright Statement Bibliography Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy BibleI commanded you, to wit, the Reubenites and Gadites, mentioned Deuteronomy 3:16, to whom he now turns his speech by an apostrophe. Meet for the war; in such number as your brethren shall judge necessary. See Joshua 1:14 4:13. Copyright Statement Bibliography Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New TestamentsDeuteronomy 3:18. I commanded you — Namely, the Reubenites and Gadites. All that are meet — In such number as your brethren shall judge necessary. They were in all above a hundred thousand. Forty thousand of them went over Jordan before their brethren. Copyright Statement Bibliography E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible NotesI commanded. See Numbers 32:20-24. meet for the war. Hebrew = sons of valour. Figure of speech Antimereia (of Noun), App-6= valiant men. Emphasis on valiant. Compare 2 Samuel 2:7. 1 Kings 1:52. Copyright Statement Bibliography Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeAnd I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.
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