33 And the Lord our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.
33 the Lord our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, together with his sons and his whole army.
33 And the Lord our God gave him over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and all his people.
33 God handed him, his sons, and his entire army over to us and we utterly crushed them.
33 And the Lord our God delivered him over to us; so we defeated him, his sons, and all his people.
33 But the Lord our God handed him over to us, and we crushed him, his sons, and all his people.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Deuteronomy 2:33
Commentary on Deuteronomy 2:24-37
(Read Deuteronomy 2:24-37)
God tried his people, by forbidding them to meddle with the rich countries of Moab and Ammon. He gives them possession of the country of the Amorites. If we keep from what God forbids, we shall not lose by our obedience. The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof; and he gives it to whom he pleases; but when there is no express direction, none can plead his grant for such proceedings. Though God assured the Israelites that the land should be their own, yet they must contend with the enemy. What God gives we must endeavour to get. What a new world did Israel now come into! Much more joyful will the change be, which holy souls will experience, when they remove out of the wilderness of this world to the better country, that is, the heavenly, to the city that has foundations. Let us, by reflecting upon God's dealings with his people Israel, be led to meditate upon our years spent in vanity, through our transgressions. But happy are those whom Jesus has delivered from the wrath to come. To whom he hath given the earnest of his Spirit in their hearts. Their inheritance cannot be affected by revolutions of kingdoms, or changes in earthly possessions.