Deuteronomy 2 · Verse 3

Deuteronomy 2:3

Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
Deuteronomy 2:3, King James Version

Deuteronomy 2:3 in other translations

BSB“You have been wandering around this hill country long enough; turn to the north
WEB“You have encircled this mountain long enough. Turn northward.
ASVYe have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
YLTEnough to you--is the going round of this mount; turn for yourselves northward.
DARBYYe have gone round this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
BBEYou have been journeying round this mountain long enough: now go to the north;
WebsterYe have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.

What does Deuteronomy 2:3 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 3 Turn you northward - From Mount Seir, in order to get to Canaan. This was not the way they went before, viz., by Kadesh-barnea, but they were to proceed between Edom on the one hand, and Moab and Ammon on the other, so as to enter into Canaan through the land of the Amorites.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 2:1-7

Only a short account of the long stay of Israel in the wilderness is given. God not only chastised them for their murmuring and unbelief, but prepared them for Canaan; by humbling them for sin, teaching them to mortify their lusts, to follow God, and to comfort themselves in him. Though Israel may be long kept waiting for deliverance and enlargement, it will come at last. Before God brought Israel to destroy their…

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Deuteronomy 2:3 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.

רַב\־rav-[is] enoughH7227
לָכֶ֕םla.Khemfor you
סֹ֖בsogoing roundH5437
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הָהָ֣רha.Harthe hill countryH2022
הַזֶּ֑הha.Zeh<the> thisH2088
פְּנ֥וּpe.NuturnH6437
לָכֶ֖םla.Khem<for> yourselves
צָפֹֽנָה\׃tza.Fo.nahnorth -wardH6828

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

Cross references for Deuteronomy 2:3

  • Deuteronomy 1:6

    The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount:

  • 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.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
long enough.
7,14; 1:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Deuteronomy 2:2

    And the Lord spake unto me, saying,

  • Deuteronomy 2:3

    Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.

  • Deuteronomy 2:4

    And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:

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Deuteronomy 2:3 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Harto habéis rodeado este monte; volveos al aquilón.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Vous avez assez tourné autour de cette montagne; dirigez-vous vers le nord.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Lange genug habt ihr dieses Gebirge umzogen; wendet euch gegen Norden.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Sufficit vobis circuire montem istum: ite contra aquilonem: