Deuteronomy 2:29
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What does Deuteronomy 2:29 mean?
As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and
the
Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me
Which respects, as Jarchi observes, not the affair of passing
through their land requested, for neither of them granted that,
but buying food and drink; for though the Edomites at first seem
not to have granted that, yet afterwards they did. The mountain
of Seir, and the city Ar, are put for the whole countries of Edom
and Moab:
until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the Lord
our God
giveth us;
this is observed to remove any suspicion or jealousy of their
seizing his country, and taking possession of it, and dwelling in
it; since they only proposed to pass through it on their journey
to the land of Canaan, which lay on the other side Jordan, over
which they must pass in order to possess it, which they had a
right unto by the gift of God.
