Deuteronomy 1:44 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah. ”

Deuteronomy 1:44 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Amorites - In Numbers 14:45 , it is “the Amalekites and the Canaanites” who are said to have discomfited them. The Amorites, as the most powerful nation of Canaan, lend their name here, as i...
Deuteronomy 1:44 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 1:19 . great and terrible wilderness ( Deuteronomy 8:15 ); i.e. the desert of et-Tih between the peninsula of Sinai and S. Palestine. as. commanded us: cf. Deuteronomy 1:7 ....
Deuteronomy 1:44 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Amorites. Compare Numbers 14:43 . See App-25. bees. Hebrew with art. "the bees". Art. of species. destroyed you . beat you down. Hebrew. kathath.
Deuteronomy 1:44 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah. The Amorites - chased you - See the note on Numbers 1...
Deuteronomy 1:44 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ver. 44. Chased you, as bees do — The Syriac, Onkelos, and an Arabic MS. which Bochart saw in Sweden, have it, as bees do when irritated by smoke. It is well known, that smoke is applied to dr...
Deuteronomy 1:44 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea. Turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness. This command they disregarded; and determin...
Deuteronomy 1:44 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

First Discourse ( Deuteronomy 1:14 to Deuteronomy 4:43 ) The long sojourn in the wilderness is now drawing to a close. The Israelites are encamped in the Plains of Moab within sight of the Promi...
Deuteronomy 1:44 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

As bees do. — This should be observed as illustrating what is said of the hornet in Exodus 23:28-30 , and further on in Deuteronomy 7:20 ; Joshua 24:12 . The incidental mention of the bees in th...
Deuteronomy 1:44 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE DIVINE GOVERNMENT Deuteronomy 1:1-46 ; Deuteronomy 2:1-37 ; Deuteronomy 3:1-29 AFTER these preliminary discussions we now enter upon the exposition. With the exception of the first two ve...
Deuteronomy 1:44 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Journeying and Dying in the Wilderness Deuteronomy 1:41-46 ; Deuteronomy 2:1-15 We cannot obtain by our impetuosity and insistence what God offers only as a free gift to our faith. The Land of...
Deuteronomy 1:44 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The Book of Deuteronomy is didactic rather than historic. It consists of a collection of the final utterances of Moses and is a Book of review. It commences with a discourse in which Moses reviewed...
Deuteronomy 1:44 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I did not think it needful to stop the Reader with any observations which arise out of these verses, having already dwelt upon the subject in the Commentary on the 13th and 14th Chapter s of the Book...
Deuteronomy 1:44 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the Amorites which dwelt in the mountain ,.... Elsewhere called Canaanites, being one, and a principal one of the seven nations of Canaan, and who were joined and assisted in the attack by the A...
Deuteronomy 1:44 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

As bees As bees, which, being provoked, come out of their hives in great numbers, and with great fury pursue their adversary and disturber.
Deuteronomy 1:44 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE COMMAND TO LEAVE HOREB (vs.1-8) In Numbers 32:1-42 Israel is seen to remain in the area east of Jordan long enough for the two and a half tribes to build cities. Thus God required no haste...
Deuteronomy 1:44 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Israel's Sin at Kadesh. B. C. 1451. 19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went throug...
Deuteronomy 1:44 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

As bees do; as bees which being provoked come out of their hives in great numbers, and with great fury pursue and sting their adversary and disturber, Psalms 118:12 .
Deuteronomy 1:44 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 1:42 ‘ And Yahweh said to me, “Say to them, Do not go not up, nor fight, for I am not among you, lest you be smitten before your enemies.” So Yahweh, Who knew the truth of what wou...
Deuteronomy 1:44 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— I. Biographical . Sihon . סִיחן (Slkhôn). LXX . Σηών. Joseph. Σιχών. King of the Amorites when the Israelites reached the borders of Canaan,—a man of courage and...
Deuteronomy 1:44 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Deuteronomy 1:1 . In the plain over against the Red sea. סו Suph, red, not being joined in the text with ים Yam, sea, should not be rendered the Red sea. Zuph being the name of a town, and...
Deuteronomy 1:44 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Deuteronomy 1:19-5 Here Moses passes from the judges to the people at large; from charging officials to judge righteously, to reminding the people that they also had received fro...
Deuteronomy 1:44 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Kadesh-Barnea and the Spies.
Deuteronomy 1:44 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 28:25 ; Deuteronomy 32:30 ; Isaiah 7:18 ; Numbers 14:45 ; Numbers 21:3 ; Psalms 118:12
Deuteronomy 1:44 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

As bees — As bees which being provoked come out of their hives in great numbers, and with great fury pursue their adversary and disturber.

Deuteronomy 1:44 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Deuteronomy 1:44 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 1:44 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Deuteronomy 1:44 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Deuteronomy 1:44 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Deuteronomy 1:44 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 1:44 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 1:44 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 1:44 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Deuteronomy 1:44 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Deuteronomy 1:44 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Deuteronomy 1:44 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Deuteronomy 1:44 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Deuteronomy 1:44 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Deuteronomy 1:44 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 1:44 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Deuteronomy 1:44 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Deuteronomy 1:44 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Deuteronomy 1:44 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Deuteronomy 1:44 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Deuteronomy 1:44 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Deuteronomy 1:44 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Deuteronomy 1:44 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 1:44 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes