King James Version
Deuteronomy 2:15 in the King James Version says “For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.” — study this verse from Deuteronomy chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.”
Deuteronomy 2:15 · KJV
Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered. brook: or, valley
And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, 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. brook: or, valley
For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
That the LORD spake unto me, saying,
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properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“For indeed the hand”
H3027a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v
“of the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“was against them to destroy”
H2000properly, to put in commotion; by implication, to disturb, drive, destroy
“them from among”
H7130properly, the nearest part, i.e., the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial (especially with preposition)
“the host”
H4264an encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or e
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
“until they were consumed”
H8552to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive
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