Ulangan 2:9

2:9 Then the Lord said to me, “Do not harass Moab and provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land as your territory. This is because I have given Ar ¹  to the descendants of Lot ²  as their possession.

Ulangan 7:8

7:8 Rather it is because of his ³  love ⁴  for you and his faithfulness to the promise ⁵  he solemnly vowed ⁶  to your ancestors ⁷  that the Lord brought you out with great power, ⁸  redeeming ⁹  you from the place of slavery, from the power ¹⁰  of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Ulangan 9:23

9:23 And when he ¹¹  sent you from Kadesh-Barnea and told you, “Go up and possess the land I have given you,” you rebelled against the Lord your God ¹²  and would neither believe nor obey him.

Ulangan 10:1

The Opportunity to Begin Again

10:1 At that same time the Lord said to me, “Carve out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and come up the mountain to me; also make for yourself a wooden ark. ¹³ 

Ulangan 26:14

26:14 I have not eaten anything when I was in mourning, or removed any of it while ceremonially unclean, or offered any of it to the dead; ¹⁴  I have obeyed you ¹⁵  and have done everything you have commanded me.

¹ sn Ar was a Moabite city on the Arnon River east of the Dead Sea. It is mentioned elsewhere in the “Book of the Wars of Yahweh” (Num 21:15; cf. 21:28; Isa 15:1). Here it is synonymous with the whole land of Moab.

² sn The descendants of Lot. Following the destruction of the cities of the plain, Sodom and Gomorrah, as God’s judgment, Lot fathered two sons by his two daughters, namely, Moab and Ammon (Gen 19:30-38). Thus, these descendants of Lot in and around Ar were the Moabites.

³ tn Heb “the Lord’s.” See note on “He” in 7:6.

⁴ tn For the verb אָהַב (’ahav, “to love”) as a term of choice or election, see note on the word “loved” in Deut 4:37.

⁵ tn Heb “oath.” This is a reference to the promises of the so-called “Abrahamic Covenant” (cf. Gen 15:13-16).

⁶ tn Heb “swore on oath.”

⁷ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 12, 13).

⁸ tn Heb “by a strong hand” (NAB similar); NLT “with such amazing power.”

⁹ sn Redeeming you from the place of slavery. The Hebrew verb translated “redeeming” (from the root פָּדָה, padah) has the idea of redemption by the payment of a ransom. The initial symbol of this was the Passover lamb, offered by Israel to the Lord as ransom in exchange for deliverance from bondage and death (Exod 12:1-14). Later, the firstborn sons of Israel, represented by the Levites, became the ransom (Num 3:11-13). These were all types of the redemption effected by the death of Christ who described his atoning work as “a ransom for many” (Matt 20:28; cf. 1 Pet 1:18).

¹⁰ tn Heb “hand” (so KJV, NRSV), a metaphor for power or domination.

¹¹ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 9:3.

¹² tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord your God,” that is, against the commandment that he had spoken.

¹³ tn Or “chest” (so NIV, CEV); NLT “sacred chest”; TEV “wooden box.” This chest was made of acacia wood; it is later known as the ark of the covenant.

¹⁴ sn These practices suggest overtones of pagan ritual, all of which the confessor denies having undertaken. In Canaan they were connected with fertility practices associated with harvest time. See E. H. Merrill, Deuteronomy (NAC), 335-36.

¹⁵ tn Heb “the Lord my God.” See note on “he” in 26:2.