Deuteronomy 2:14

Deuteronomy 2:14 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And the space in which we came from Kadesh–barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the Lord sware unto them.
• New International Version (NIV)Thirty-eight years passed from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And the time from our leaving Kadesh-barnea 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.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And the time we took to come from Kadesh Barnea until we crossed over the Valley of the Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, just as the Lord had sworn to them.

Context of Deuteronomy 2:14

12Previously the Horites lived in Seir but the descendants of Esau dispossessed and destroyed them and settled in their place, just as Israel did to the land it came to possess, the land the Lord gave them.) 13Now, get up and cross the Wadi Zered.” So we did so. Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the Lord had vowed to them. 15Indeed, it was the very hand of the Lord that eliminated them from within the camp until they were all gone. 16So it was that after all the military men had been eliminated from the community,

Deuteronomy 2:14 word by word

וְהַיָּמִ֞ים אֲשֶׁר־הָלַ֣כְנוּ׀ מִקָּדֵ֣שׁ בַּרְנֵ֗עַ עַ֤ד אֲשֶׁר־עָבַ֙רְנוּ֙ אֶת־נַ֣חַל זֶ֔רֶד שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים וּשְׁמֹנֶ֖ה שָׁנָ֑ה עַד־תֹּ֨ם כָּל־הַדּ֜וֹר אַנְשֵׁ֤י הַמִּלְחָמָה֙ מִקֶּ֣רֶב הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֔ה כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר נִשְׁבַּ֥ע יְהוָ֖ה לָהֶֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And the spaceיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• in which we cameהָלַךְhâlak · to go: wentH1980
• from Kadesh–barneaקָדֵשׁ בַּרְנֵעַqâdêsh barnêa‛ · Kadesh-barneaH6947
• until we were come overעָבַר‛âbar · to passH5674
• the brookנַ֫חַלnachal nachlâh nachălâh · torrent: valleyH5158
• Zeredזֶ֫רֶדzered · ZeredH2218
• thirtyשְׁלֹשִׁיםshelôshîym shelôshîym · thirtyH7970
• and eightשְׁמֹנֶהshemôneh shemôneh shemônâh shemônâh · eightH8083
• yearsשָׁנָהshâneh shânâh · yearH8141
• until all the generationדּוֹרdôr dôr · generationH1755
• of the menאֱנוֹשׁ'ĕnôsh · humanH582
• of warמִלְחָמָהmilchâmâh · battleH4421
• were wasted outתָּמַםtâmam · to finishH8552
• from amongקֶ֫רֶבqereb · entrails: amongH7130
• the hostמַחֲנֶהmachăneh · campH4264
• as the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• swareשָׁבַעshâba‛ · to swearH7650

Cross-references for Deuteronomy 2:14

• Deuteronomy 1:2Now it is ordinarily an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea by way of Mount Seir.
• Numbers 13:26They came back to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community of the Israelites in the wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They reported to the whole community and showed the fruit of the land.
• Deuteronomy 1:34When the Lord heard you, he became angry and made this vow:
• Numbers 14:28Say to them, ‘As I live, says the Lord, I will surely do to you just what you have spoken in my hearing.
• Numbers 26:64But there was not a man among these who had been among those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the Israelites in the wilderness of Sinai.
• Numbers 32:11‘Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years old and upward who came from Egypt will see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
• Psalms 90:3You make mankind return to the dust, and say, “Return, O people!”
• Psalms 95:11So I made a vow in my anger, ‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’”
• Ezekiel 20:15I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them to the land I had given them – a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.
• Hebrews 3:8“Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.
• Jude 1:5Now I desire to remind you (even though you have been fully informed of these facts once for all) that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, later destroyed those who did not believe.

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 2:14

• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-23Verses 8-23 We have the origin of the Moabites, Edomites, and Ammonites. Moses also gives an instance older than any of these; the Caphtorims drove the Avims out of their country. These revolutions show what uncertain things wordly possessions are. It was so of old, and ever will be so. Families decline, and from them estates are transferred to families that increase; so little continuance is there in these things. This is recorded to encourage the…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-25Numbers 21:10–20 covers the same time period.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 8-188-18. we passed ... through the way of the plain--the Arabah or great valley, from Elath ("trees") (the Ailah of the Greeks and Romans). The site of it is marked by extensive mounds of rubbish. Ezion-geber--now Akaba, both were within the territory of Edom; and after making a circuit of its southeastern boundary, the Israelites reached the border of Moab on the southeast of the Salt Sea. They had been forbidden by divine command to molest the Moabites in…Read the comment

Topics related to Deuteronomy 2:14

• Israel
• Judgments
• Zared

In the dictionaries

• Kadesh
• Kadesh-Barnea
• Kadesh, Kadesh Barnea, Meribah Kadesh
• Contend
• Distress
• Exodus
• Geber
• Generation
• Horites
• Zered

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 2

• 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