Deuteronomy 2:16

16 When the last of those fighting men had died,

Deuteronomy 2:16 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 2:16

So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed,
&c.] By wasting diseases and judgments of one kind or another:

and dead from among the people;
the rising and surviving generation.

Deuteronomy 2:16 In-Context

14 It had been thirty-eight years from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, all the fighting men from that time had died, as the Lord had promised would happen.

15 The Lord continued to work against them to remove them from the camp until they were all dead.

16 When the last of those fighting men had died,

17 the Lord said to me,

18 "Today you will pass by Ar, on the border of Moab.