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Deuteronomy 2:30-32
New English Translation
Deuteronomy 2:30-32
New English Translation
30 But King Sihon of Heshbon was unwilling to allow us to pass near him because the Lord our[a] God had made him obstinate[b] and stubborn[c] so that he might deliver him over to you[d] this very day. 31 The Lord said to me, “Look! I have already begun to give over Sihon and his land to you. Start right now to take his land as your possession.” 32 When Sihon and all his troops[e] emerged to encounter us in battle at Jahaz,[f]
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- Deuteronomy 2:30 tc The translation follows the LXX in reading the first person pronoun. The MT, followed by many English versions, has a second person masculine singular pronoun, “your.”
- Deuteronomy 2:30 tn Heb “hardened his spirit” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NIV “made his spirit stubborn.”
- Deuteronomy 2:30 tn Heb “made his heart obstinate” (so KJV, NASB); NRSV “made his heart defiant.”
- Deuteronomy 2:30 tn Heb “into your hand.”
- Deuteronomy 2:32 tn Heb “people.”
- Deuteronomy 2:32 sn Jahaz. This is probably Khirbet el-Medeiyineh. See J. Dearman, “The Levitical Cities of Reuben and Moabite Toponymy,” BASOR 276 (1984): 55-57.
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