“ (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;) ”
Hermon, 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. Hen...
Deuteronomy 3:8-17 gives an account of the distribution, between Reuben, Gad, and half Manasseh, of the territories taken from the two Amorite kings, Sihon and Og. Deuteronomy 3:8 . beyond Jo...
Which. Note these topographical parentheses, verses: Deuteronomy 3:9 ; Deuteronomy 3:11 ; Deuteronomy 3:14 , Compare Deuteronomy 2:20-23 ; Deuteronomy 2:29 . Sirion . breastplate. Shenir ....
( Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;) Hermon the Sidonians call - Shenir - I suppose this verse to have been a marginal remark, which afterwards got incorporate...
Ver. 9. Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion — Sirion signifies a mountain. Now as Hermon, one of the mountains of Gilead, where it joins to Lebanon, rises in the territories of the Sidoni...
(Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;) No JFB commentary on this verse.
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...
Sirion. — ( Sion ,Deut.448.) Sirion, or Shirion, and Shenir, are thought to have similar meanings. But the Targum inteprets Shenir as the “rock of snow.” Shirion, according to Gesenius, means “glit...
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...
the Inheritance of Reuben, Gad and Manasseh Deuteronomy 3:1-22 Sihon's defeat, described in the previous chapter, compelled his ally Og to take the field and oppose the further advance of Israe...
This victory was considered so important (as no doubt it was) that we find the church celebrating it in a song of praise in one Psalm, and echoing to the same again in another. See Psalms 125:5 , an...
Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion ,.... Which name it has in Psalms 29:6 a name the inhabitants of Sidon gave it, but for what reason it is not easy to say; however, that it was well known to...
Sirion Elsewhere called mount Gilead, and Lebanon, and here Shenir, and Sirion, which several names were given to this one mountain, partly by several people, and partly in regard of several tops a...
OG, KING OF BASHAN, DEFEATED (vs.1-11) The history of Og's defeat is in Numbers 21:33-35 . Moses recounts this. Og and his people came out against Israel to battle, just as the ungodly would opp...
Sihon and Og Subdued. B. C. 1451. 1 Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and O...
Elsewhere called Mount Gilead , and Libanus or Lebanon , and here Shenir, and Sirion , and, by abbreviation, Sion , Deuteronomy 4:48 ; which several names are given to this one mountain, p...
A Description of the Whole Land That Is Captured ( Deuteronomy 3:8-17 ). a They took out of the hands of the two kings of the Amorites in Transjordan the land from Mount Hermon in the north to th...
CRITICAL NOTES .— Conquest of Og . Israel were able to advance to the Jordan after the defeat of Sihon and the conquest of his land. But Og, the Amonitish King, still kept the northern half of Gilea...
Deuteronomy 3:9 . Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion. The LXX, willing to adapt the language of the sacred writings to their own age, say, “Which Hermon the Phœnicians call Sanior.” See notes...
So the Lord our God delivered into our hands Og also, king of Bashan. Mastery of formidable enemies See-- 1. How they got the mastery of Og, a very formidable prince. (1) Very strong, for...
EXPOSITION Deuteronomy 3:1-5 CONQUEST OF OG , KING OF BASHAN . The Amorites had wrested from Moab a portion of the territory taken by the Moabites and the Edomites from th...
The Overthrow of King Og of Bashan
1 Chronicles 5:23 ; Deuteronomy 4:48 ; Deuteronomy 4:49 ; Ezekiel 27:5 ; Psalms 133:3 ; Psalms 29:6 ; Psalms 89:12 ; Song of Solomon 4:8
Turning Backward Deuteronomy 2:1-37 and Deuteronomy 3:1-29 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Last week we closed with God's refusal to permit the Children of Israel to go into the land of Canaan. They...
Sirion — Elsewhere called Mount Gilead, and Lebanon, and here Shenir, and Sirion, which several names are given to this one mountain partly by several people, and partly in regard of several tops a...