Deuteronomy 3:8 - Forerunner Commentary

Deuteronomy 3:8

6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king ^aof Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.

7 But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities we took as booty for ourselves.

8 “And at that time we took the ^aland from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were on this side of the Jordan, from the River Arnon to Mount ^bHermon

9 (the Sidonians call ^aHermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir),

10 ^aall the cities of the plain, all Gilead, and ^ball Bashan, as far as Salcah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

11 ^a“For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of ^bthe giants. Indeed his bedstead was an iron bedstead. (Is it not in ^cRabbah of the people of Ammon?) Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the standard cubit.

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Deuteronomy 3:8-9

Two of the names in that verse are used for the same general geographic area, but given different names in other places. I am pretty sure you are familiar with those other names, but you are not familiar with Shenir and Hermon all that much.

Here is one place that has three names. You are subject to this at any time in the Bible. Any one of those three names might be used: Hermon, Sirion, or Shenir. So that is a very clear statement of what I am talking about here. You have to be aware that God allows the authors to use different names. Anybody who has done any kind of studying into geography ought to understand that this is very common. Every ethnic group of people on earth does this, because languages change, things and events occur within nations, and because of that event they will change the name of whatever it was where that event took place because of that event. The same place it was called before by a different name, but the name became changed.

Excerpted from Eden, The Garden, and the Two Trees (Part One) by John W. Ritenbaugh

Deuteronomy 3:1-11

Again, God is showing Him controlling events according to His term, only this time Israel believed Him and went forward in the strength of their faith, and the battle was theirs because God backed them.

And so as things went against Sihon with Israel, the same occurred in the battle against Og of Bashan.

Excerpted from Do You See God in Deuteronomy? by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)

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