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Deuteronomy 3:9
9(The people from Sidon call Mount Hermon ‘Sirion’. The Amorites call it ‘Senir’.)
Deuteronomy 3:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)(Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)
- New International Version (NIV)(Hermon is called Sirion by the Sidonians; the Amorites call it Senir.)
- English Standard Version (ESV)(the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, while the Amorites call it Senir),
- New King James Version (NKJV)(the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir),
Context of Deuteronomy 3:9
7But we kept all the animals and the valuable things from the cities for ourselves. 8So, at that time, we took power over all the land that the two Amorite kings, Og and Bashan, had ruled. Their land was east of the Jordan River, from the Arnon valley to Mount Hermon. (The people from Sidon call Mount Hermon ‘Sirion’. The Amorites call it ‘Senir’.) 10We took all their cities in the high, flat land and cities in the whole of Gilead and in Bashan. We went as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities that belonged to the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 11Og, king of Bashan, was the only descendant of the Rephaites who had still been alive. He had an iron bed that is still in the Ammonites' town, Rabbah. It was 4 metres long and 2 metres wide.
Read all of Deuteronomy 3Deuteronomy 3:9 word by word
צִידֹנִ֛ים יִקְרְא֥וּ לְחֶרְמ֖וֹן שִׂרְיֹ֑ן וְהָ֣אֱמֹרִ֔י יִקְרְאוּ־ל֖וֹ שְׂנִֽיר׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Deuteronomy 3:9
- Deuteronomy 4:48Their land went from Aroer, on the edge of the Arnon valley, as far as Mount Sirion (that is Mount Hermon).
- Psalms 29:6He makes Lebanon jump like a calf. He causes Hermon mountain to shake like a young bull jumps.
- Psalms 89:12You made everything, from the north to the south. Tabor and Hermon are happy to praise your name.
- Psalms 133:3It brings pleasure like the dew on Hermon. It makes the mountains of Zion become wet. That is the place where the Lord has promised to bless his people. He blesses them with life for ever.
- 1 Chronicles 5:23Half of Manasseh's tribe lived in the region of Bashan, on the east side of the Jordan River. Their borders were Baal-Hermon, Senir and Hermon mountain. They became very many people.
- Ezekiel 27:5They used wood from the pine trees of Senir. They used a cedar tree from Lebanon to make your mast.
Commentaries on Deuteronomy 3:9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9Hermon the Sidonians call - Shenir - I suppose this verse to have been a marginal remark, which afterwards got incorporated with the text, or an addition by Joshua or Ezra.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9Hermon, the southern and culminating point of the range of Lebanon, was also the religious center of primaeval Syria. Its Baal sanctuaries not only existed but gave it a name before the Exodus. Hence, the careful specification of the various names by which the mountain was known. The Sidonian name of it might easily have become known to Moses through the constant traffic which had gone on from the most ancient times between Sidon and Egypt.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9The alternative names Sirion and Senir suggest that the Israelites may have given Hermon its name later. Hermon is apparently related to the verb kharam, which means "to destroy" (see study note on 2:34). It may describe the destruction summarized in 3:3–7.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. Hermon--now Jebel-Es-Sheick--the majestic hill on which the long and elevated range of Anti-Lebanon terminates. Its summit and the ridges on its sides are almost constantly covered with snow. It is not so much one high mountain as a whole cluster of mountain peaks, the highest in Palestine. According to the survey taken by the English Government Engineers in 1840, they were about 9376 feet above the sea. Being a mountain chain, it is no wonder that it…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Deuteronomy 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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