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John Gill's Exposition on Deuteronomy 2:14
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, etc.] The space of time; or, “the days” f26; the number of them: until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; that is, from the time that the spies were sent and searched the land, and brought a report of it; for they were sent from Kadeshbarnea, (<043208>Numbers 32:8) unto the passage of the Israelites over Zered, were thirty eight years; so long they had been travelling in the wilderness, after they were come to the borders of the land: until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host; all that were twenty years old and upwards, and fit to go out to war upon occasion, when the people were first numbered after they came out of Egypt; all that generation was now consumed within the above space of time, excepting two, Caleb and Joshua; as the Lord sware unto them; (<041421>Numbers 14:21,23,30).
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