Deuteronomy 2:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷That the LORD spake unto me, saying,

Deuteronomy 2:17 —

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-23)

It is observable here that Moses, speaking of the Edomites (Deut. 2:8), calls them, “ our brethren, the children of Esau.” Though they had been unkind to Israel, in refusing them a peaceable passage through their country, yet he calls them brethren. For, though our relations fail in their duty to us, we must retain a sense of the relation, and not be wanting in our duty to them, as there is occasi…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

8-18. we passed ... through the way of the plain--the Arabah or great valley, from Elath (“trees”) (the Ailah of the Greeks and Romans). The site of it is marked by extensive mounds of rubbish. Ezion-geber--now Akaba, both were within the territory of Edom; and after making a circuit of its southeastern boundary, the Israelites reached the border of Moab on the southeast of the Salt Sea. They had…