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the Week of Proper 14 / Ordinary 19
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申命记 2:23

還有亞衛人,原先住在迦薩附近的各村莊裡,有從迦斐託出來的迦斐託人把他們消滅了,住在他們那裡。)

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Avites;   Caphtor;   Caphtorim;   Gaza;   Hazerim;   Philistines;   Thompson Chain Reference - Gaza;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Philistines, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ar;   Avim, or Avites;   Caphtorim;   Gaza or Azzah;   Hazerim;   Philistines;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Crete;   Philistia, philistines;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Avim;   Caphtor;   Gaza;   Hazerim;   Phenicia;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Caphtor;   Gaza;   Joppa;   Philistia;   Tent;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Avim;   Azzah;   Caphtor;   Esau;   Gaza;   Hazerim;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Avvim;   Caphtor;   Hazerim;   Philistines;   Zuzim;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Avim, Avites ;   Caphtor ;   Caphtorim ;   Deuteronomy, Book of;   Gaza ;   Hazerim ;   Philistines ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Caphtor;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Avims;   Division of the Earth;   Hivites;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Avims;   Avvim;   Azzah;   Caphtor;   Crete;   Deuteronomy;   Hazerim;   Philistines;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Avim;   Azzah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Avvites, Avva, Avvim;   Caphtor;   Cappadocia;   Giants;   Philistines;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
从 迦 斐 托 出 来 的 迦 斐 托 人 将 先 前 住 在 乡 村 直 到 迦 萨 的 亚 卫 人 除 灭 , 接 着 居 住 。 )

Contextual Overview

8 So we passed by our relatives, the descendants of Esau who lived in Edom. We turned off the Jordan Valley road that comes from the towns of Elath and Ezion Geber and traveled along the desert road to Moab. 9 Then the Lord said to me, "Don't bother the people of Moab. Don't go to war against them, because I will not give you any of their land as your own; I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their own." 10 (The Emites, who lived in Ar before, were strong people, and there were many of them. They were very tall, like the Anakites. 11 The Emites were thought to be Rephaites, like the Anakites, but the Moabite people called them Emites. 12 The Horites also lived in Edom before, but the descendants of Esau forced them out and destroyed them, taking their place as Israel did in the land the Lord gave them as their own.) 13 And the Lord said to me, "Now get up and cross the Zered Valley." So we crossed the valley. 14 It had been thirty-eight years from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, all the fighting men from that time had died, as the Lord had promised would happen. 15 The Lord continued to work against them to remove them from the camp until they were all dead. 16 When the last of those fighting men had died, 17 the Lord said to me,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the Avims: Joshua 13:3, Avites

Azzah: 1 Kings 4:24, Jeremiah 25:20, Zephaniah 2:4, Zechariah 9:5, Gaza

the Caphtorims which came: Genesis 10:14, Jeremiah 47:4, Amos 9:7, Acts 17:26

Reciprocal: Numbers 12:16 - Hazeroth 1 Chronicles 1:12 - Caphthorim

Cross-References

Genesis 2:8
Then the Lord God planted a garden in the east, in a place called Eden, and put the man he had formed into it.
Genesis 2:9
The Lord God caused every beautiful tree and every tree that was good for food to grow out of the ground. In the middle of the garden, God put the tree that gives life and also the tree that gives the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 29:14
Then Laban said, "You are my own flesh and blood." Jacob stayed there a month.
Judges 9:2
"Ask the leaders of Shechem, ‘Is it better for the seventy sons of Gideon to rule over you or for one man to rule?' Remember, I am your relative."
2 Samuel 5:1
Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said to him, "Look, we are your own family.
2 Samuel 19:13
And say to Amasa, ‘You are part of my own family. May God punish me terribly if I don't make you commander of the army in Joab's place!'"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Avim, which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah,.... The same with the Avites, who appear to have inhabited some part of the land of the Philistines, in which Azzah or Gaza was, which was one of the five lordships of the Philistines, Joshua 13:3. The word Hazerim signifies courts, and a learned man e interprets it of tents or huts placed in a square or circular form, so as to have an area in the middle; and in such the Avim may be supposed to dwell, while in Palestine, as far as Gaza:

the Caphtorim, which came from out of Caphtor, destroyed them; according to the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, and the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions, these were Cappadocians, that came out of Cappadocia; but it seems manifest that they were originally of Egypt, see Genesis 10:14 and Bochart f thinks they went from thence into that part of Cappadocia that was near Colchis; but things not answering their expectations, they returned, and drove out the Avim from their country:

and dwelt in their stead; Genesis 10:14- : Genesis 10:14- :. Though it seems as if they were not utterly destroyed, but some escaped into Assyria, and settled there, where was a place called Ava from them; and from whence they were sent by the king of Assyria to repeople the cities of Samaria, after the captivity of the ten tribes; see 2 Kings 17:24. Now these several instances are observed to encourage the children of Israel to hope and believe that they should be able to dispossess the Canaanites, and inherit their land; such dispossessions having been very frequent, when it was the will of God they should take place.

e Clayton's Chronology of the Hebrew Bible, p. 65. f Phaleg. l. 4. c. 32. col. 291, 292.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These verses, like Deuteronomy 2:10-12, are in all likelihood an addition made by a later reviser.

Deuteronomy 2:20

Zamzummims - A giant race usually identified with the Zuzims of Genesis 14:5.

Deuteronomy 2:23

The Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah - Read (Gaza, of which Azzah is the Hebrew form. “Hazerim” is not strictly a proper name, but means “villages,” or “enclosures,” probably such as are still common in the East. The Avims are no doubt identical with the Avites of Joshua 13:3, and were doubtless a scattered remnant of a people conquered by the Caphtorim (Genesis 10:14 note) and living in their “enclosures” in the neighborhood of Gerar. The word, which means “ruins,” seems itself expressive of their fallen state.


 
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