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Deuteronomy 2 Bible study: You have lacked nothing
Before the LORD said, "I have given into your hand Sihon" (2:24), he told Israel three times he had given land to others: Mount Seir to Esau, Ar and Ammon's land to Lot's children (2:5, 2:9, 2:19). Israel was to pay for its food and water (2:6), and Moses could say of forty years in the wilderness, "You have lacked nothing" (2:7).
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“For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has known your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years, the LORD your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.”
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“In Deuteronomy 2, the LORD told Israel to buy food and water from the children of Esau with money.”
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What's really going on
"I have given", three times, to others
In this chapter the LORD says three times that he has already given land to other peoples. Of Esau's children: "I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession" (2:5). Of Moab: "I will not give you any of his land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession" (2:9). Of Ammon: "I will not give you any of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession, because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession" (2:19). Esau is Jacob's brother (Genesis 25:26), and "Esau is Edom" (Genesis 36:8); Moab and Ammon come from Lot's two sons (Genesis 19:37-38). Joshua later gives the LORD's words the same way: "I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it" (Joshua 24:4). Only after these three, in this chapter, does the LORD say it of Israel: "Behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land" (2:24).
Where it leads to Jesus
"Did you lack anything?"
Deuteronomy 2:7leads toLuke 22:35
Moses tells Israel, "These forty years, the LORD your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing" (2:7). At the Passover meal (Luke 22:15), Jesus asked his disciples, "When I sent you out without purse, bag, and sandals, did you lack anything?" They said, "Nothing" (Luke 22:35). Luke doesn't cite Deuteronomy 2, so this is a reading. Some hear the same care in both: a journey made at God's word, looked back on, with nothing lacking. Others note that the settings differ: Israel was to pay money for food and water (2:6), and Jesus' question leads straight into a change, "But now, whoever has a purse, let him take it" (Luke 22:36), so they read the two as sharing a theme without one pointing to the other.
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- Thirty-eight years in one verse
- "Don’t contend", then "contend"
- "You have lacked nothing"
- The peoples who lived there before
- "Who shall hear the report of you"
- 17 questions as you read
- 11 more Hebrew words
- A short check at the end
- Your notes, saved as you go
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The Hebrew word behind it
יְרֻשָּׁהyerushahsay ye-roosh-SHAH
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "possession, inheritance". Strong's: "something occupied; a conquest; also a patrimony", from the verb yarash, "possess" (2:24). It is this chapter's refrain, six times in four verses: Mount Seir given "to Esau for a possession" (2:5), Moab's land and Ar, "for a possession" twice (2:9), "the land of his possession" (2:12), and Ammon's land, twice (2:19). The word comes 14 times in the Hebrew Bible; seven are in Deuteronomy, and six of those are in this chapter. The seventh is Moses' word to the tribes east of the Jordan: "Then you shall each return to his own possession, which I have given you" (3:20).
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Deuteronomy 2 Bible study questions
- 1Moses said, "You have lacked nothing" (2:7), at the end of forty hard years. Looking at your own life honestly, what have you gone without, and what have you never lacked?
- 2The LORD told Israel not to fight their brothers for land he had not given them (2:4-5). Where are you tempted to fight for something that was never given to you?
- 3Moses sent "words of peace" (2:26) to a king who would refuse them. Who needs words of peace from you this week, whatever they do with them?
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