Deuteronomy 2:16

16 "So when all the men of war had perished and were dead from among the people,

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 And the time from our leaving Ka'desh-bar'nea until we crossed the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until the entire generation, that is, the men of war, had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.
15 For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from the camp, until they had perished.
16 "So when all the men of war had perished and were dead from among the people,
17 the LORD said to me,
18 'This day you are to pass over the boundary of Moab at Ar;
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