Num 21:2-3, 35, 33:52, Deu 7:1-4, 16, Jos 6:17-21, 9:24, 27, 10:28, 40 | TSK | STEP

Numbers 21:2-3

vowed.

Ge 28:20; Jud 11:30; 1Sa 1:11; 2Sa 15:7,8; Ps 56:12,13; 116:18

I will.

Le 27:28,29; De 13:15; Jos 6:17,26; 1Co 16:22

hearkened.

and they utterly.{Wyyacharem,} rather with the LXX. [kai anethematisen,] "and they anathematised, or devoted them to destruction;" for it is certain that these Canaanites and Arad were not utterly destroyed till the time of Joshua. (Jos 12:14.)

the name.

14:45; De 1:44; 1Sa 30:30{Hormah,} that is, utter destruction. {Chormah,} rather a devoting to destruction: so LXX. [Anathema,] and Tremellius, {devotio sive anathema.}

Numbers 21:35

De 3:3-17; 29:7,8; Jos 12:4-6; 13:12; Ps 135:10-12; 136:17-21

Ro 8:37

Numbers 33:52

Ex 23:24,31-33; 34:12-17; De 7:2-5,25,26; 12:2,3,30,31; 20:16-18

Jos 11:11,12; 23:7; Jud 2:2

Deuteronomy 7:1-4

1 All communion with the nations is forbidden;

5 for fear of idolatry;

6 for the holiness of the people;

9 for the nature of God in his mercy and justice;

17 for the assuredness of victory which God will give over them.

the Lord.

4:38; 6:1,10,19,23; 9:1,4; 11:29; 31:3,20; Ex 6:8; 15:7; Nu 14:31

Ps 44:2,3; 78:55

the Hittites.With respect to the situation of these nations in the land of Canaan, Calmet remarks, that the Canaanites chiefly inhabited Phoenecia; the Hittites, the mountains south of the promised land; the Hivites, mount Ebal, and Gerizim, and towards Hermon; the Girgashites, beyond Jordan, towards the lake of Gennesareth, the Jebusistes, about Jerusalem; the Amorites, the mountains west of the Dead Sea, and part of the land of Moab; and that the Perizzites were probably not a distinct nation, but villagers scattered through the country.

Ge 15:18-21; Ex 23:28; 33:2

greater.

4:38; 4:1-3; 20:1

deliver.

23,24; 3:3; 23:14; Ge 14:20; Jos 10:24,25,30,32,42; 21:44; Jud 1:4

utterly.

20:16,17; Le 27:28,29; Nu 33:52; Jos 6:17-25; 8:24; 9:24; 10:28,40

Jos 11:11,12

make no.

20:10,11; Ex 23:32,33; 34:12-16; Jos 2:14; 9:18-21; Jud 1:24; 2:2

2Sa 21:2

Ge 6:2,3; Ex 34:15,16; Jos 23:12,13; Jud 3:6,7; 1Ki 11:2

Ezr 9:1,2; Ne 13:23-27; 2Co 6:14-17

so will.

6:15; 32:16,17; Ex 20:5; Jud 2:11,20; 3:7,8; 10:6,7

Deuteronomy 7:16

consume.

thine eye.

13:8; 19:13,21; 25:12; Jer 21:7

for that will.

12:30,31; Ex 23:33; 34:12-16; Nu 33:55; Jos 23:13-16; Jud 2:3,12

Jud 3:6; 8:27; Ps 106:36; 1Co 15:33

Joshua 6:17-21

accursed. or, devoted.

7:1; Le 27:28,29; Nu 21:2,3; 1Co 2:7; Ezr 10:8; *marg:

Isa 34:6; Jer 46:10; Eze 39:17; Mic 4:13; 1Co 16:22; Ga 3:10,12

only Rahab.

2:1

because.

22,23; 2:4-6,22; Ge 12:3; 1Sa 15:6; Mt 10:41,42; 25:40; Heb 6:10

Heb 11:31; Jas 2:25

in any wise.

Ro 12:9; 2Co 6:17; Eph 5:11; Jas 1:27; 1Jo 5:21

lest ye make.

7:1,11,12,15; De 7:26; 13:17

make the camp.

7:11,12; 22:18-20; 1Sa 14:28-42; Ec 9:18; Jon 1:12

and trouble it.

7:25; 2Sa 21:1; 1Ki 18:17,18

all the silver.

2Sa 8:11; 1Ch 18:11; 26:20,26,28; 28:12; 2Ch 15:18; 31:12

Isa 23:17,18; Mic 4:13

consecrated. Heb. holiness.

Le 19:24; *marg:

Zec 14:20,21

the treasury.

1Ki 7:51; 14:26; 2Ki 24:13; 1Ch 26:20; Ne 7:70,71; 10:38; Jer 38:11

Mt 27:6; Mr 12:41

the wall.

5; 2Co 10:4,5; Heb 11:30

flat. Heb. under it.

And they.The Canaanites were ripe for destruction; and God was pleased, instead of destroying them by a pestilence, a famine, or an earthquake, to employ the Israelites as the executioners of his vengeance. Had an angel been commissioned to slay them, who would have charged him with iniquity or cruelty? In all public calamities infants are involved; and tens of thousands of infants die in great agony every year. Now, either God is not the agent in these calamities, (which opinion, though often implied in men's reasonings on these subjects, is not far from atheism;) or they must consist with the most perfect justice and goodness.

utterly.

9:24,25; 10:28,39; 11:14; De 2:34; 7:2,3,16; 20:16,17

1Sa 15:3,8,18,19; 1Ki 20:42; Ps 137:8,9; Jer 48:18; Re 18:21