2 Chronicles 20:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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And (the children of) mount Seir. — The Maonites are here so called apparently, and thus identified as an Edomite people. (See on 2 Chronicles 20:1.)

Whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade. — See the respective prohibitions (Deuteronomy 2:4; Deuteronomy 2:9; Deuteronomy 2:19.) Comp. also (Numbers 20:14-21) the king of Edom’s refusal of a passage through his territory (Judges 11:15, seq.) These tribes were recognised as the kindred of Israel, as being sons of Esau and sons of Lot. (The Syriac has “mount Gebel,” i.e., Gebâl, the name of a tribe living in the northern part of mount Seir, Psalms 73:8.)

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2 Chronicles 20:10

10 And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;