Study 2 From The Book of
Deuteronomy is: Deuteronomy 2
1.
What do we learn from this
chapter of the sovereignty of God over the nation? Cf. 32:8; Acts 17:26.
2.
Why were Edom, Moab and
Ammon spared on this occasion, whereas the Amorites were exterminated? Note
verses 4’ 5; 9’ 19; and cf. am. 1:11-2:3.
3.
What do verses 24 and 31
teach about the relationship between divine grace and human faith? Cf. Eph.
2:8.
Notes
- Verse
1. ‘Many days’: nearly thirty-eight years; cf. verse 14.
- Verses
4-8. This is not the same incident as that of Nu. 20:14-21, but a later
instruction when Israel had reached the eastern border of Edom.
- Verses
10-12 and 20-23 are parenthetical notes on ancient history.
- Verse
30. A judicial hardening, i.e., to
punish one already opposed to God.
- Verse
34. “Utterly destroyed’: devoted to destruction’. i.e., under God’s curse.
