Deuteronomy 2:16

16 “When all the men of fighting age 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 “Thirty-eight years passed from the time we first left Kadesh-barnea until we finally crossed the Zered Brook! By then, all the men old enough to fight in battle had died in the wilderness, as the LORD had vowed would happen.

15 The LORD struck them down until they had all been eliminated from the community.

16 “When all the men of fighting age had died,

17 the LORD said to me,

18 ‘Today you will cross the border of Moab at Ar