Deuteronomy 3:15

3:15 I gave Gilead to Machir.¹

Deuteronomy 22:16

22:16 The young woman’s father must say to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man and he has rejected² her.

Deuteronomy 30:15

30:15 “Look! I have set before you today life and prosperity on the one hand, and death and disaster on the other.

Deuteronomy 3:12

Distribution of the Transjordanian Allotments

3:12 This is the land we brought under our control at that time: The territory extending from Aroer³ by the Wadi Arnon and half the Gilead hill country with its cities I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites.⁴

Deuteronomy 3:16

3:16 To the Reubenites and Gadites I allocated the territory extending from Gilead as far as Wadi Arnon (the exact middle of the wadi was a boundary) all the way to the Wadi Jabbok, the Ammonite border.

Deuteronomy 3:19

3:19 But your wives, children, and livestock (of which I know you have many) may remain in the cities I have given you.

Deuteronomy 1:8

1:8 Look! I have already given the land to you.⁵ Go, occupy the territory that I,⁶ the Lord, promised⁷ to give to your ancestors⁸ Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants.”⁹

Deuteronomy 2:5

2:5 Do not be hostile toward them, because I am not giving you any of their land, not even a footprint, for I have given Mount Seir¹⁰ as an inheritance for Esau.

Deuteronomy 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 Ar¹¹ to the descendants of Lot¹² as their possession.

Deuteronomy 2:24

2:24 Get up, make your way across Wadi Arnon. Look! I have already delivered over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon,¹³ and his land. Go ahead! Take it! Engage him in war!

Deuteronomy 3:2

3:2 The Lord, however, said to me, “Don’t be afraid of him because I have already given him, his whole army,¹⁴ and his land to you. You will do to him exactly what you did to King Sihon of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon.”

Deuteronomy 3:13

3:13 The rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh.¹⁵ (All the region of Argob,¹⁶ that is, all Bashan, is called the land of Rephaim.

Deuteronomy 3:20

3:20 You must fight¹⁷ until the Lord gives your countrymen victory¹⁸ as he did you and they take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving them on the other side of the Jordan River. Then each of you may return to his own territory that I have given you.”

Deuteronomy 9:23

9:23 And when he¹⁹ sent you from Kadesh-Barnea and told you, “Go up and possess the land I have given you,” you rebelled against the Lord your God²⁰ and would neither believe nor obey him.

Deuteronomy 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;²¹ I have obeyed you²² and have done everything you have commanded me.

Deuteronomy 30:1

The Results of Covenant Reaffirmation

30:1 “When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the curses²³ I have set before you, you will reflect upon them²⁴ in all the nations where the Lord your God has banished you.

Deuteronomy 30:19

30:19 Today I invoke heaven and earth as a witness against you that I have set life and death, blessing and curse, before you. Therefore choose life so that you and your descendants may live!

¹sn Machir was the name of another descendant of Manasseh (cf. Num 32:41; 1 Chr 7:14-19). Eastern Manasseh was thus divided between the Jairites and the Machirites.

²tn Heb “hated.” See note on the word “other” in Deut 21:15.

³tn The words “the territory extending” are not in the Hebrew text; they are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁴sn Reubenites and Gadites. By the time of Moses’ address the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh had already been granted permission to settle in the Transjordan, provided they helped the other tribes subdue the occupants of Canaan (cf. Num 32:28-42).

⁴tn Heb “I have placed before you the land.”

⁵tn Heb “the Lord.” Since the Lord is speaking, it is preferable for clarity to supply the first person pronoun in the translation.

⁶tn Heb “swore” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT). This refers to God’s promise, made by solemn oath, to give the patriarchs the land.

⁷tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 11, 21, 35).

⁸tn Heb “their seed after them.”

⁵sn Mount Seir is synonymous with Edom.

⁶sn 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.

⁷sn 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.

⁷sn Heshbon is the name of a prominent site (now Tell Hesba„n, about 7.5 mi [12 km] south southwest of Amman, Jordan). Sihon made it his capital after having driven Moab from the area and forced them south to the Arnon (Num 21:26-30). Heshbon is also mentioned in Deut 1:4.

⁸tn Heb “people.”

⁹sn Half the tribe of Manasseh. The tribe of Manasseh split into clans, with half opting to settle in Bashan and the other half in Canaan (cf. Num 32:39-42; Josh 17:1-13).

¹⁰sn Argob. See note on this term in v. 4.

¹⁰tn The words “you must fight” are not present in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.

¹¹tn Heb “gives your brothers rest.”

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

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

¹²sn 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.

¹³tn Heb “the Lord my God.” See note on “he” in 26:2.

¹³tn Heb “the blessing and the curse.”

¹⁴tn Heb “and you bring (them) back to your heart.”