Deuteronomy 2 · Verse 15

Deuteronomy 2:15

For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
Deuteronomy 2:15, King James Version

Deuteronomy 2:15 in other translations

BSBIndeed, the LORD’s hand was against them, to eliminate them from the camp, until they had all perished.
WEBMoreover the LORD’s hand was against them, to destroy them from the middle of the camp, until they were consumed.
ASVMoreover the hand of Jehovah was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.
YLTand also the hand of Jehovah hath been against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, till they are consumed.
DARBYMoreover the hand of Jehovah was against them to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.
BBEFor the hand of the Lord was against them, working their destruction, till all were dead.
WebsterFor indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.

What does Deuteronomy 2:15 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 2:8-18

8-18. we passed ... through the way of the plain--the Arabah or great valley, from Elath ("trees") (the Ailah of the Greeks and Romans). The site of it is marked by extensive mounds of rubbish. Ezion-geber--now Akaba, both were within the territory of Edom; and after making a circuit of its southeastern boundary, the Israelites reached the border of Moab on the southeast of the Salt Sea. They had been forbidden by…

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 2:8-23

We have the origin of the Moabites, Edomites, and Ammonites. Moses also gives an instance older than any of these; the Caphtorims drove the Avims out of their country. These revolutions show what uncertain things wordly possessions are. It was so of old, and ever will be so. Families decline, and from them estates are transferred to families that increase; so little continuance is there in these things. This is…

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Deuteronomy 2:15 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְגַ֤םve.Gamand alsoH1571
יַד\־yad-[the] hand ofH3027
יְהוָה֙Yah.wehYahwehH3068
הָ֣יְתָהHa.ye.tahit wasH1961
בָּ֔םBamon them
לְהֻמָּ֖םle.hu.Mamto disturb themH2000
מִקֶּ֣רֶבmi.Ke.revfrom [the] midst ofH7130
הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֑הha.ma.cha.Nehthe campH4264
עַ֖ד'aduntilH5704
תֻּמָּֽם\׃tu.Mamwere finished theyH8552

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Deuteronomy 2:15

  • Psalms 106:26

    Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:

  • Psalms 78:33

    Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

  • 1 Samuel 7:13

    So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the coast of Israel: and the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

  • Psalms 90:7-9

    For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

  • Psalms 32:4

    For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

  • 1 Samuel 5:6

    But the hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.

  • 1 Corinthians 10:5

    But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

  • Isaiah 66:14

    And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the Lord shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.

  • 1 Samuel 5:9

    And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the Lord was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.

  • 1 Samuel 5:11

    So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.

  • Judges 2:15

    Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had said, and as the Lord had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.

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Jud 2:15; 1Sa 5:6,9,11; 7:13; Ps 32:4; 78:33; 90:7-9; 106:26
Isa 66:14; 1Co 10:5

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Context

  • Deuteronomy 2:14

    And the space in which we came from Kadesh–barnea, 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.

  • Deuteronomy 2:15

    For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.

  • Deuteronomy 2:16

    So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

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Deuteronomy 2:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y también la mano de Jehová fué sobre ellos para destruirlos de en medio del campo, hasta acabarlos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et la main de l’ Éternel a aussi été contre eux, pour les détruire du milieu du camp, jusqu’à ce qu’ils aient péri.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und auch war die Hand Jehovas wider sie, um sie aus dem Lager zu vertilgen, bis sie aufgerieben waren.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		cujus manus fuit adversum eos, ut interirent de castrorum medio.