Deuteronomy 1: Devorim
Recalling the Past, Some Gentile Ethnic Identifications, Esau/Edom, Canaanites
We are now beginning the
Book of Deuteronomy which in Hebrew is called
Sefer
(Book of) Devorim.
This week's portion is also called is called "Devorim"
meaning "words" because of the
expresion "the words which
Moses spake"
in the first verse.
The book Sefer
(Book of) Devorim
is also known as Mishneh
Torah which could be translated as meaning "The Second Torah".
Devorim
is built around repetitions in summarized form of events and commandments that
have already begin along with the insertion of new information and some new
commandments. The new commandments in this book include (Levirate marriage, the
punishment for making an Evil Report about one's wife, divorce laws, false
witnesses, etc (Nachmanides).
This week's portion includes the first
part of the Book of Deuteronomy (verses 1:1 to 3:22). The whole Book of
Deuteronomy is also called "Devorim"
in Hebrew.
[Deuteronomy 1:1] THESE BE THE WORDS WHICH MOSES SPAKE UNTO ALL ISRAEL ON THIS
SIDE JORDAN IN THE WILDERNESS, IN THE PLAIN OVER AGAINST THE RED SEA, BETWEEN
PARAN, AND TOPHEL, AND LABAN, AND HAZEROTH, AND DIZAHAB.
[Deuteronomy 1:2] (THERE ARE ELEVEN DAYS' JOURNEY FROM HOREB BY THE WAY OF MOUNT
SEIR UNTO KADESHBARNEA.)
[Deuteronomy 1:3] AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE FORTIETH YEAR, IN THE ELEVENTH
MONTH, ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH, THAT MOSES SPAKE UNTO THE CHILDREN OF
ISRAEL, ACCORDING UNTO ALL THAT THE LORD HAD GIVEN HIM IN COMMANDMENT UNTO
THEM;
[Deuteronomy 1:4] AFTER HE HAD SLAIN SIHON THE KING OF THE AMORITES, WHICH DWELT
IN HESHBON, AND OG THE KING OF BASHAN, WHICH DWELT AT ASTAROTH IN EDREI:
HESHBON
in Hebrew means "reckoning" or thought.
EDREI
in Aramaic denotes the "forearm" or power of action. (Chidushi
HaRim).
Moses had to overcome the negative forces in thought and action before the Land
could be conquered.
This account is a literal one and meant to be taken into literally. At the same
time all of the above names have meanings and can be taken as symbolic of forces
and the whole thing can ALSO be understood on an allegorical mystical or
philosophical level.
These mystical-spiritual inbterpretations do not contradict the simple lieral meaning(which is what we concentrate upon) but add to it and complement our understanding of it.
[Deuteronomy 1:5] ON THIS SIDE JORDAN, IN THE LAND OF MOAB, BEGAN MOSES TO
DECLARE THIS LAW, SAYING,
[Deuteronomy 1:6] THE LORD OUR GOD SPAKE UNTO US IN HOREB, SAYING, YE HAVE DWELT
LONG ENOUGH IN THIS MOUNT:
"Horeb" is another name for Mount Sinai
in Hebrew. The Israelites received the Torah on Mount Sinai.
[Deuteronomy 1:7] TURN YOU, AND TAKE YOUR JOURNEY, AND GO TO THE MOUNT OF THE
AMORITES, AND UNTO ALL THE PLACES NIGH THEREUNTO, IN THE PLAIN, IN THE HILLS,
AND IN THE VALE, AND IN THE SOUTH, AND BY THE SEA SIDE, TO THE LAND OF THE
CANAANITES, AND UNTO LEBANON, UNTO THE GREAT RIVER, THE RIVER EUPHRATES.
All of Lebanon, all of Syria, right up
to the Euphrates River belongs to Israel.
http://www.britam.org/Questions/QuesLand.html
[Deuteronomy 1:8] BEHOLD, I HAVE SET THE LAND BEFORE YOU: GO IN
AND POSSESS THE LAND WHICH THE LORD SWARE UNTO YOUR FATHERS, ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND
JACOB, TO GIVE UNTO THEM AND TO THEIR SEED AFTER THEM.
To their seed after them forever, as an
inalienable possession.
[Deuteronomy 1:9] AND I SPAKE UNTO YOU AT THAT TIME, SAYING, I AM NOT ABLE TO
BEAR YOU MYSELF ALONE:
[Deuteronomy 1:10] THE LORD YOUR GOD HATH MULTIPLIED YOU, AND, BEHOLD, YE ARE
THIS DAY AS THE STARS OF HEAVEN FOR MULTITUDE.
At that time they numbered 600,000 plus
men between the ages of 20 and 60 plus women and children and elder. This was a
population of at least 3 million. There is also an opinion that every tribe
except Levi practiced polygamy at that time and this would have meant a much
larger number.
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[Deuteronomy 1:11] (THE LORD GOD OF YOUR FATHERS MAKE YOU A THOUSAND TIMES SO
MANY MORE AS YE ARE, AND BLESS YOU, AS HE HATH PROMISED YOU!)
Colbert ("Bert") Bryan first pointed out to us that it was prophesied that the number of Israelites as it then was
would multiplied a thousand times over. They were then ca. 3 million so that would mean ca. 3000 million!
At present we do not know exactly how many the descendants of Israel meaning the Ten Tribes , Jews, and descendants of Jews who are not aware of it, number
but it could be a great many and in the past we have tentatively suggested several hundred million!
[Deuteronomy 1:12] HOW CAN I MYSELF ALONE BEAR YOUR CUMBRANCE, AND YOUR BURDEN,
AND YOUR STRIFE?
The Hebrews were a quarrelsome
squabbling people: Everyone standing on his own rights and engaging in
litigation. All this was on the shoulders of Moses who took every case to heart.
[Deuteronomy 1:13] TAKE YOU WISE MEN, AND UNDERSTANDING, AND KNOWN AMONG YOUR
TRIBES, AND I WILL MAKE THEM RULERS OVER YOU.
Delegate authority.
[Deuteronomy 1:14] AND YE ANSWERED ME, AND SAID, THE THING WHICH THOU HAST
SPOKEN IS GOOD FOR US TO DO.
[Deuteronomy 1:15] SO I TOOK THE CHIEF OF YOUR TRIBES, WISE MEN, AND KNOWN, AND
MADE THEM HEADS OVER YOU, CAPTAINS OVER THOUSANDS, AND CAPTAINS OVER HUNDREDS,
AND CAPTAINS OVER FIFTIES, AND CAPTAINS OVER TENS, AND OFFICERS AMONG YOUR
TRIBES.
The ancient pagan Anglo-Saxons (who
conquered England and settled there) also divided themselves into tens, fifties,
hundreds, and thousands.
I personally feel a sympathy for the
Anglo-Saxons. John Hulley, a fellow historian and personal friend of mine, however has
claimed that the Celts, Vikings, and Normans who also all settled in Britain
were far more important. Recently studies have strengthened the case of Hulley and have tended to claim that most people of
Britain descend from the "Celticised" natives and that the Anglo-Saxons were a
small minority who conquered the land and imposed their language. The claim is
that the Belgae
who had settled in southeast England in Celtic times had already introduced a
Germanicization
of language and culture before the Angles and Saxons came. There may be
something in this but I doubt it. The new Anglo-Saxon patterns of settlement,
culture, and customs were too different and too widespread not to imply
colonization of the conquered land by large numbers.
[Deuteronomy 1:16] AND I CHARGED YOUR JUDGES AT THAT TIME, SAYING, HEAR THE
CAUSES BETWEEN YOUR BRETHREN, AND JUDGE RIGHTEOUSLY BETWEEN EVERY MAN AND HIS
BROTHER, AND THE STRANGER THAT IS WITH HIM.
The "STRANGER" is to be respected and
treated equally. This does not necessarily mean that the land is to be turned
over to masses of newcomers of entirely different origin and values. The
STRANGER was an exception.
[Deuteronomy 1:17] YE SHALL NOT RESPECT PERSONS IN JUDGMENT; BUT YE SHALL HEAR
THE SMALL AS WELL AS THE GREAT; YE SHALL NOT BE AFRAID OF THE FACE OF MAN; FOR
THE JUDGMENT IS GOD'S: AND THE CAUSE THAT IS TOO HARD FOR YOU, BRING IT UNTO
ME, AND I WILL HEAR IT.
Everyone was to be equal before the Law.
This is what Moses taught. It was always there in the Bible. Not until the
French and American Revolutions did this principle become widely accepted
amongst civilized peoples. It is interesting that the French and American
Revolutions began a rethinking about man and government and human rights. One
was began by descendants of Reuben the natural first-born and the other by
descendants of Joseph who received the rights of the first-born instead of
Reuben.
[Deuteronomy 1:18] AND I COMMANDED YOU AT THAT TIME ALL THE THINGS WHICH YE
SHOULD DO.
They were commanded then to do these
things forever. In principle the Law was given for all time. The Ten Tribes may
for now be considered technically "Gentiles" and not obligated by the Law but
this will change in the future.
REMEMBER YE THE LAW OF MOSES MY SERVANT, WHICH I COMMANDED UNTO HIM IN
HOREB
FOR ALL ISRAEL, WITH THE STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS [Malachi 4:4].
[Deuteronomy 1:19] AND WHEN WE DEPARTED FROM HOREB, WE WENT THROUGH ALL THAT
GREAT AND TERRIBLE WILDERNESS, WHICH YE SAW BY THE WAY OF THE MOUNTAIN OF THE
AMORITES, AS THE LORD OUR GOD COMMANDED US; AND WE CAME TO KADESHBARNEA.
[Deuteronomy 1:20] AND I SAID UNTO YOU, YE ARE COME UNTO THE MOUNTAIN OF THE
AMORITES, WHICH THE LORD OUR GOD DOTH GIVE UNTO US.
In the Bible the Amorites are largely
linked with the region east of the Jordan River. Amorites were also found west
of the Jordan. The whole region of the Land of Israel was known as "Amuru"
or land of the Amorites to Foreigners even after the Israelites conquered and
settled the Land. Israelites were also referred to as "Amorites" by foreigners.
The Ten Tribes were exiled and became associated with the Cimmerians and
Scythians. The King of the Cimmerians was later referred to by the Assyrians as
"King of Amurru".
This indicates a connection with Israel. We discussed this at length in our book
"Lost Israelite Identity".
http://www.britam.org/Identity.html
"Brit-Am" were the ones who
first published this information. King Solomon said: Let a stranger praise you
and not your own mouth.
LET ANOTHER MAN PRAISE THEE, AND NOT
THINE
OWN MOUTH; A STRANGER, AND NOT
THINE OWN LIPS [Proverbs
27:2].
[Deuteronomy 1:21] BEHOLD, THE LORD THY GOD HATH SET THE LAND BEFORE THEE: GO UP
AND POSSESS IT, AS THE LORD GOD OF THY FATHERS HATH SAID UNTO THEE; FEAR NOT,
NEITHER BE DISCOURAGED.
Do not fear. We are commanded to conquer
and settle the whole of the Land of Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates.
Ephraimites
who wish to live in the Land of Israel should consider taking over regions not
being settled by Judah such as Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan.
The Return of Ephraim
http://britam.org/USAMatsor.html
Zechariah 10:10 Ephraim
taking control of Lebanon and Gilead meaning Lebanon and Syria and settling in
them!
Micah 7:12 Exiles returning from
Matsor (Kurdistan in Northern
(Iraq) and Assyria.
Micah 7:14 Exiles to settle in
Bashan (Northern Syria) and
Gilead (southern Syria and Jordan).
It may be worth pointing out that the UK (dominated by Ephraim) was beeen traditionally the protector of Jordan.
On several occasions the UK in the past intervened on behalf of Jordan to the point of threatening intervention against the State of Israel.
On the one hand such attitudes against the Jews of Judah reflect treachery against the Israelite nation and a dastardly
streak of non-Israelite tendencies. On the other hand it may also to some degree reflect an instinctive jealousy and some kind of recognition that
the region east of the Jordan may ultimately belong to them.
Britain helped the Jewish settlement in Palestine which lead to the State of Israel. Britain also helped Israel on many occasions.
The possession of the Atom Bomb by Israel is in part thanks to British connivance.
Both Britain and Israel prefer to downplay the fact of British assistance and in stead stress periods of hostility between each other that also existed
and must be owned up to, e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Mandate_of_Syria
In the 1940s, Britain secretly advocated the creation of a Greater Syrian state that would secure Britain preferential
status in military, economic and cultural matters, in return for putting a complete halt to Jewish ambition in Palestine.
France and the United states opposed British hegemony in the region, which eventually lead to the creation of Israel.[1]
[1] https://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/spages/950373.html
Similarly in Biblical Times Reuben was located in Gilead and Bashan. We identifiy Reuben as part of the French and in the recent past France had strong interests in Syria and Lebanon.
France once ruled over Syria (1918-1943). France still has a strong interest in the Middle East. For a good time France was
very pro-Israel and helped Israel arm itself and develop economically. In recent years (and especially at present)
however France has become pro-Arab.
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[Deuteronomy 1:22] AND YE CAME NEAR UNTO ME EVERY ONE OF YOU, AND SAID, WE WILL
SEND MEN BEFORE US, AND THEY SHALL SEARCH US OUT THE LAND, AND BRING US WORD
AGAIN BY WHAT WAY WE MUST GO UP, AND INTO WHAT CITIES WE SHALL COME.
[Deuteronomy 1:23] AND THE SAYING PLEASED ME WELL: AND I TOOK TWELVE MEN OF YOU,
ONE OF A TRIBE:
[Deuteronomy 1:24] AND THEY TURNED AND WENT UP INTO THE MOUNTAIN, AND CAME UNTO
THE VALLEY OF ESHCOL, AND SEARCHED IT OUT.
[Deuteronomy 1:25] AND THEY TOOK OF THE FRUIT OF THE LAND IN THEIR HANDS, AND
BROUGHT IT DOWN UNTO US, AND BROUGHT US WORD AGAIN, AND SAID, IT IS A GOOD LAND
WHICH THE LORD OUR GOD DOTH GIVE US.
[Deuteronomy 1:26] NOTWITHSTANDING YE WOULD NOT GO UP, BUT REBELLED AGAINST THE
COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD YOUR GOD:
[Deuteronomy 1:27] AND YE MURMURED IN YOUR TENTS, AND SAID, BECAUSE THE LORD
HATED US, HE HATH BROUGHT US FORTH OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, TO DELIVER US INTO
THE HAND OF THE AMORITES, TO DESTROY US.
[Deuteronomy 1:28] WHITHER SHALL WE GO UP? OUR BRETHREN HAVE DISCOURAGED OUR
HEART, SAYING, THE PEOPLE IS GREATER AND TALLER THAN WE; THE CITIES ARE GREAT
AND WALLED UP TO HEAVEN; AND MOREOVER WE HAVE SEEN THE SONS OF THE ANAKIMS
THERE.
There were giants in the land who built
mighty fortified cities.
[Deuteronomy 1:29] THEN I SAID UNTO YOU, DREAD NOT, NEITHER BE AFRAID OF THEM.
[Deuteronomy 1:30] THE LORD YOUR GOD WHICH GOETH BEFORE YOU, HE SHALL FIGHT FOR
YOU, ACCORDING TO ALL THAT HE DID FOR YOU IN EGYPT BEFORE YOUR EYES;
[Deuteronomy 1:31] AND IN THE WILDERNESS, WHERE THOU HAST SEEN HOW THAT THE LORD
THY GOD BARE THEE, AS A MAN DOTH BEAR HIS SON, IN ALL THE WAY THAT YE WENT,
UNTIL YE CAME INTO THIS PLACE.
God still bears us as a father bears his
son.
[Deuteronomy 1:32] YET IN THIS THING YE DID NOT BELIEVE THE LORD YOUR GOD,
[Deuteronomy 1:33] WHO WENT IN THE WAY BEFORE YOU, TO SEARCH YOU OUT A PLACE TO
PITCH YOUR TENTS IN, IN FIRE BY NIGHT, TO SHEW YOU BY WHAT WAY YE SHOULD GO, AND
IN A CLOUD BY DAY.
[Deuteronomy 1:34] AND THE LORD HEARD THE VOICE OF YOUR WORDS, AND WAS WROTH,
AND SWARE, SAYING,
[Deuteronomy 1:35] SURELY THERE SHALL NOT ONE OF THESE MEN OF THIS EVIL
GENERATION SEE THAT GOOD LAND, WHICH I SWARE TO GIVE UNTO YOUR FATHERS.
This whole affair of the spies is
repeated here (says the Sefat
Emet)
since the sins of one generation must be atoned for by another.
The spies brought back a bad report about the Land on the 9th day of the Month
of Av. On this day the first and second Temples were destroyed.
We are commanded to make spiritual and physical efforts to rebuild the Temple.
Every good deed we perform is one more step towards rebuilding the Temple.
Similarly our forefathers (in Judah and Joseph) split away from each other. It
is our duty to attempt to rectify that action.
[Deuteronomy 1:36] SAVE CALEB THE SON OF JEPHUNNEH; HE SHALL SEE IT, AND TO HIM
WILL I GIVE THE LAND THAT HE HATH TRODDEN UPON, AND TO HIS CHILDREN, BECAUSE HE
HATH WHOLLY FOLLOWED THE LORD.
[Deuteronomy 1:37] ALSO THE LORD WAS ANGRY WITH ME FOR YOUR SAKES, SAYING, THOU
ALSO SHALT NOT GO IN THITHER.
[Deuteronomy 1:38] BUT JOSHUA THE SON OF NUN, WHICH STANDETH BEFORE THEE, HE
SHALL GO IN THITHER: ENCOURAGE HIM: FOR HE SHALL CAUSE ISRAEL TO INHERIT IT.
Calev
was from Judah, Joshua from Ephraim.
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[Deuteronomy 1:39] MOREOVER YOUR LITTLE ONES, WHICH YE SAID SHOULD BE A PREY,
AND YOUR CHILDREN, WHICH IN THAT DAY HAD NO KNOWLEDGE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL,
THEY SHALL GO IN THITHER, AND UNTO THEM WILL I GIVE IT, AND THEY SHALL POSSESS
IT.
[Deuteronomy 1:40] BUT AS FOR YOU, TURN YOU, AND TAKE YOUR JOURNEY INTO THE
WILDERNESS BY THE WAY OF THE RED SEA.
[Deuteronomy 1:41] THEN YE ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO ME, WE HAVE SINNED AGAINST THE
LORD, WE WILL GO UP AND FIGHT, ACCORDING TO ALL THAT THE LORD OUR GOD COMMANDED
US. AND WHEN YE HAD GIRDED ON EVERY MAN HIS WEAPONS OF WAR, YE WERE READY TO GO
UP INTO THE HILL.
[Deuteronomy 1:42] AND THE LORD SAID UNTO ME, SAY UNTO THEM. GO NOT UP, NEITHER
FIGHT; FOR I AM NOT AMONG YOU; LEST YE BE SMITTEN BEFORE YOUR ENEMIES.
[Deuteronomy 1:43] SO I SPAKE UNTO YOU; AND YE WOULD NOT HEAR, BUT REBELLED
AGAINST THE COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD, AND WENT PRESUMPTUOUSLY UP INTO THE HILL.
[Deuteronomy 1:44] AND THE AMORITES, WHICH DWELT IN THAT MOUNTAIN, CAME OUT
AGAINST YOU, AND CHASED YOU, AS BEES DO, AND DESTROYED YOU IN SEIR, EVEN UNTO
HORMAH.
If they had have listened wasps or
wasp-like insects would have driven out their enemies. Because they did not
listen their enemies chased them like bees.
So too we should always be careful to do the will of the Almighty and not let
any apparent success of our won deceive us.
[Deuteronomy 1:45] AND YE RETURNED AND WEPT BEFORE THE LORD; BUT THE LORD WOULD
NOT HEARKEN TO YOUR VOICE, NOR GIVE EAR UNTO YOU.
[Deuteronomy 1:46] SO YE ABODE IN KADESH MANY DAYS, ACCORDING UNTO THE DAYS THAT
YE ABODE THERE.
[Deuteronomy 2:1] THEN WE TURNED, AND TOOK OUR JOURNEY INTO THE WILDERNESS BY
THE WAY OF THE RED SEA, AS THE LORD SPAKE UNTO ME: AND WE COMPASSED MOUNT SEIR
MANY DAYS.
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[Deuteronomy 2:2] AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO ME, SAYING,
[Deuteronomy 2:3] YE HAVE COMPASSED THIS MOUNTAIN LONG ENOUGH: TURN YOU
NORTHWARD.
[Deuteronomy 2:4] AND COMMAND THOU THE PEOPLE, SAYING, YE ARE TO PASS THROUGH
THE COAST OF YOUR BRETHREN THE CHILDREN OF ESAU, WHICH DWELL IN SEIR; AND THEY
SHALL BE AFRAID OF YOU: TAKE YE GOOD HEED UNTO YOURSELVES THEREFORE:
[Deuteronomy 2:5] MEDDLE NOT WITH THEM; FOR I WILL NOT GIVE YOU OF THEIR LAND,
NO, NOT SO MUCH AS A FOOT BREADTH; BECAUSE I HAVE GIVEN MOUNT SEIR UNTO ESAU
FOR A POSSESSION.
Afghanistan
We consider the Afghans-Pathans
to possibly be an offshoot of Esau along with descendants of
Kedar,
Ishmael, and others.
They should be left alone as much as possible.
The Israelites were commanded not to meddle with Edom when they were about to
enter the Land of Canaan. This only applied at that time
and only under specific circumstances. Nevertheless the principle can teach us
something:
[Deuteronomy 2:5] MEDDLE NOT WITH
THEM; FOR I WILL NOT GIVE YOU OF THEIR LAND, NO, NOT SO MUCH AS A FOOT BREADTH;
BECAUSE I HAVE GIVEN MOUNT SEIR
UNTO ESAU FOR A POSSESSION.
We suggest that this should be
the US-UK policy regarding the Afghan-Pathans
at present.
Have them once again ban the growing of the poppy seed, turn over or expel all
Al-Quaeda
and other international terrorists
and then leave them alone. Let them wipe each other out or do whatever else they
wish to.
Historically invaders of their land have not had much success.
We would suggest that if anything it is
more important to take control of Pakistan than Afghanistan. Concerning
Afghanistan itself, we should endeavor to come to terms with them, stop Poppy
seed cultivation, stop international terrorist links, leave the country.
The USA entered Afghanistan after 9/11. It did so however by using the Northern
Aliance.
This consisted of Tajiks
and others who represented the majority of the population and who for centuries
had been oppressed by the Afghan-Pathan
rulers.
The Afghan-Pathans
formed the Taliban super extremist Moslems. The Taliban had abolished the
growing of poppy from which is produced much of the world supply of opium and
heroin.
After the Taliban had been deposed, corrupt warlords took over, re-introduced
the growing of poppy seed, the country began falling apart, the Taliban began
making a come-back, and US forces got sucked into the morass.
It now seems unlikely that the Taliban left to their own devices would succeed
in once again taking control of the country since it has lost some support
amongst the Afghans-Pathans,
and the Tajiks
and other minorities have grown stronger.
http://britam.org/Questions/QuesAfghanistan.html
http://britam.org/Questions/QuesOtherClaims.html
If Afghanistan is indeed a
minor offshoot of Edom it is only a small part of the Power of Esau that
controls the ruling elites of non-Israelite Europe as well as Japan and
elsewhere in Asia.
For more on Esau/Edom see:
http://www.britam.org/Questions/QuesEdom.html
The Midrash About Jacob and Esau in the Future
Midrash,
Devorim
Rabah
1;20:
#Rabbi
Shmuel
bar Nachman
said: When Esau met together with
Yaacov,
Esau said, 'Yaacov
my brother, let us go forward together in this world.
[In Genesis it says AND HE [Esau] SAID,
LET US TAKE OUR JOURNEY, AND LET US GO, AND I WILL GO BEFORE THEE [Genesis
33:12]. The KJ translates it as Esau saying I WILL GO BEFORE THEE. The Hebrew,
Ve-aylca-ce-negdaca,
may preferably be understood to mean, I WILL GO ALONGSIDE YOU. This is how the
Sages understood it and what the
Midrash is referring to. Esau
offered to progress parallel with and in tandem to
Yaacov.]
Yaacov
replied:
LET MY LORD, I PRAY THEE, PASS OVER BEFORE HIS SERVANT [Genesis 33:14]:
[See the Brit-Am Bible
Commentary to this passage.]
http://britam.org/Genesis/Gen32to36VaYishlach.html
Take your portion in the
world first AND I WILL LEAD ON SOFTLY ACCORDING to the Work that is before me
[The KJ translates this phrase AS THE
CATTLE THAT GOETH
BEFORE ME but this translation is mistaken or at least it is not as the Sages
understood it].
What does this
mean?
He said, I have first to give rise to
HANANIAH,
MISHAEL,
AND AZARIAH
[Daniel 1:6], CHILDREN IN WHOM WAS NO BLEMISH [Daniel 1:4].
Alternately [i.e. another explanation],
He said, I have first to give rise to the King Messiah, of whom it is written,
FOR TO US A CHILD IS BORN, TO US A SON IS GIVEN [Isaiah 9:6]. UNTIL I COME UNTO
MY LORD UNTO SEIR
[Genesis 33:14].
# Said Rabbi
Shmuel
bar Nachman:
We have gone through the entire Bible and not found that Jacob stood with Esau
in Seir.
What does the expression "UNTIL I COME UNTO MY LORD UNTO
SEIR"
mean? When will he fulfill it and go to Esau?
Yaacov
said unto Esau: I must first give rise to Judges and
Saviours
who will take revenge from that person [Esau], as it says:
AND SAVIOURS
SHALL COME UP ON MOUNT ZION TO JUDGE THE MOUNT OF ESAU; AND THE KINGDOM SHALL BE
THE LORD'S [Obadiah 1:21].
Israel said to God Almighty: Master of the Universe! How long will be subjected
under his domain [i.e. the domain of Esau]?
God said unto them, Until the day will come of which it is written,
THERE SHALL COME A STAR OUT OF JACOB AND A
SCEPTRE
SHALL RISE OUT OF ISRAEL [Numbers 24:17].
A flaming star will come out of
Yaacov
and burn up the dry chaff of Esau, as it says,
AND THE HOUSE OF JACOB SHALL BE A FIRE AND THE HOUSE OF JOSEPH A FLAME AND THE
HOUSE OF ESAU FOR STUBBLE (Obadiah 1:18).
The Holy One (i.e. God) said,
At that time I will appear in my Royalty and will reign over them as it says,
AND SAVIOURS
SHALL COME UP ON MOUNT ZION TO JUDGE THE MOUNT OF ESAU; AND THE KINGDOM SHALL BE
THE LORD'S [Obadiah 1:21].##
[Deuteronomy 2:6] YE SHALL BUY MEAT OF THEM FOR MONEY, THAT YE MAY EAT; AND YE
SHALL ALSO BUY WATER OF THEM FOR MONEY, THAT YE MAY DRINK.
[Deuteronomy 2:7] FOR THE LORD THY GOD HATH BLESSED THEE IN ALL THE WORKS OF THY
HAND: HE KNOWETH THY WALKING THROUGH THIS GREAT WILDERNESS: THESE FORTY YEARS
THE LORD THY GOD HATH BEEN WITH THEE; THOU HAST LACKED NOTHING.
[Deuteronomy 2:8] AND WHEN WE PASSED BY FROM OUR BRETHREN THE CHILDREN OF ESAU,
WHICH DWELT IN SEIR, THROUGH THE WAY OF THE PLAIN FROM ELATH, AND FROM
EZIONGABER, WE TURNED AND PASSED BY THE WAY OF THE WILDERNESS OF
MOAB.
[Deuteronomy 2:9] AND THE LORD SAID UNTO ME, DISTRESS NOT THE MOABITES, NEITHER
CONTEND WITH THEM IN BATTLE: FOR I WILL NOT GIVE THEE OF THEIR LAND FOR A
POSSESSION; BECAUSE I HAVE GIVEN AR UNTO THE CHILDREN OF LOT FOR A
POSSESSION.
[Deuteronomy 2:10] THE EMIMS DWELT THEREIN IN TIMES PAST, A PEOPLE GREAT, AND
MANY, AND TALL, AS THE ANAKIMS;
[Deuteronomy 2:11] WHICH ALSO WERE ACCOUNTED GIANTS, AS THE ANAKIMS; BUT THE
MOABITES CALLED THEM EMIMS.
[Deuteronomy 2:12] THE HORIMS ALSO DWELT IN SEIR BEFORETIME; BUT THE CHILDREN OF
ESAU SUCCEEDED THEM, WHEN THEY HAD DESTROYED THEM FROM BEFORE THEM, AND DWELT IN
THEIR STEAD; AS ISRAEL DID UNTO THE LAND OF HIS POSSESSION, WHICH THE LORD GAVE
UNTO THEM.
[Deuteronomy 2:13] NOW RISE UP, SAID I, AND GET YOU OVER THE BROOK ZERED. AND WE
WENT OVER THE BROOK ZERED.
[Deuteronomy 2:14] AND THE SPACE IN WHICH WE CAME FROM KADESHBARNEA, UNTIL WE
WERE COME OVER THE BROOK ZERED, WAS THIRTY AND EIGHT YEARS; UNTIL ALL THE
GENERATION OF THE MEN OF WAR WERE WASTED OUT FROM AMONG THE HOST, AS THE LORD
SWARE UNTO THEM.
[Deuteronomy 2:15] FOR INDEED THE HAND OF THE LORD WAS AGAINST THEM, TO DESTROY
THEM FROM AMONG THE HOST, UNTIL THEY WERE CONSUMED.
[Deuteronomy 2:16] SO IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN ALL THE MEN OF WAR WERE CONSUMED AND
DEAD FROM AMONG THE PEOPLE,
[Deuteronomy 2:17] THAT THE LORD SPAKE UNTO ME, SAYING,
[Deuteronomy 2:18] THOU ART TO PASS OVER THROUGH AR, THE COAST OF MOAB, THIS
DAY:
[Deuteronomy 2:19] AND WHEN THOU COMEST NIGH OVER AGAINST THE CHILDREN OF AMMON,
DISTRESS THEM NOT, NOR MEDDLE WITH THEM: FOR I WILL NOT GIVE THEE OF THE LAND
OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON ANY POSSESSION; BECAUSE I HAVE GIVEN IT UNTO THE
CHILDREN OF LOT FOR A POSSESSION.
[Deuteronomy 2:20] (THAT ALSO WAS ACCOUNTED A LAND OF GIANTS: GIANTS DWELT
THEREIN IN OLD TIME; AND THE AMMONITES CALL THEM ZAMZUMMIMS;
[Deuteronomy 2:21] A PEOPLE GREAT, AND MANY, AND TALL, AS THE ANAKIMS; BUT THE
LORD DESTROYED THEM BEFORE THEM; AND THEY SUCCEEDED THEM, AND DWELT IN THEIR
STEAD:
[Deuteronomy 2:22] AS HE DID TO THE CHILDREN OF ESAU, WHICH DWELT IN SEIR, WHEN
HE DESTROYED THE HORIMS FROM BEFORE THEM; AND THEY SUCCEEDED THEM, AND DWELT IN
THEIR STEAD EVEN UNTO THIS DAY:
[Deuteronomy 2:23] AND THE AVIMS WHICH DWELT IN HAZERIM, EVEN UNTO AZZAH, THE
CAPHTORIMS, WHICH CAME FORTH OUT OF CAPHTOR, DESTROYED THEM, AND DWELT IN THEIR
STEAD.)
CAPHTORIMS
were apparently part of the Philistines.
Nachmanides
(Ramban)
equates them with the Hivi,
Chori
(Horites)
and Rephaim
as well as part of the later Philistines.
Avims
in Hebrew is Avi
in the singular and Avim
in the plural.
Nachmanides
points out that, "Names retain their meaning while switching their sounds". For
example Zerach
(ZERAH
from the Tribe of Simeon, Numbers 26:13) is also referred to as
Tsochar
(transliterated as ZOHAR,
Exodus 6:15). Zerach
and Tsochar
both connote Shining Light.
[Deuteronomy 2:24] RISE YE UP, TAKE YOUR JOURNEY, AND PASS OVER THE RIVER ARNON:
BEHOLD, I HAVE GIVEN INTO THINE HAND SIHON THE AMORITE, KING OF HESHBON, AND HIS
LAND: BEGIN TO POSSESS IT, AND CONTEND WITH HIM IN BATTLE.
[Deuteronomy 2:25] THIS DAY WILL I BEGIN TO PUT THE DREAD OF THEE AND THE FEAR
OF THEE UPON THE NATIONS THAT ARE UNDER THE WHOLE HEAVEN, WHO SHALL HEAR REPORT
OF THEE, AND SHALL TREMBLE, AND BE IN ANGUISH BECAUSE OF THEE.
[Deuteronomy 2:26] AND I SENT MESSENGERS OUT OF THE WILDERNESS OF KEDEMOTH UNTO
SIHON KING OF HESHBON WITH WORDS OF PEACE, SAYING,
[Deuteronomy 2:27] LET ME PASS THROUGH THY LAND: I WILL GO ALONG BY THE HIGH
WAY, I WILL NEITHER TURN UNTO THE RIGHT HAND NOR TO THE LEFT.
[Deuteronomy 2:28] THOU SHALT SELL ME MEAT FOR MONEY, THAT I MAY EAT; AND GIVE
ME WATER FOR MONEY, THAT I MAY DRINK: ONLY I WILL PASS THROUGH ON MY FEET;
[Deuteronomy 2:29] (AS THE CHILDREN OF ESAU WHICH DWELL IN SEIR, AND THE
MOABITES WHICH DWELL IN AR, DID UNTO ME;) UNTIL I SHALL PASS OVER JORDAN INTO
THE LAND WHICH THE LORD OUR GOD GIVETH US.
[Deuteronomy 2:30] BUT SIHON KING OF HESHBON WOULD NOT LET US PASS BY HIM: FOR
THE LORD THY GOD HARDENED HIS SPIRIT, AND MADE HIS HEART OBSTINATE, THAT HE
MIGHT DELIVER HIM INTO THY HAND, AS APPEARETH THIS DAY.
s.6
[Deuteronomy 2:31] AND THE LORD SAID UNTO ME, BEHOLD, I HAVE BEGUN TO GIVE SIHON
AND HIS LAND BEFORE THEE: BEGIN TO POSSESS, THAT THOU MAYEST INHERIT HIS LAND.
[Deuteronomy 2:32] THEN SIHON CAME OUT AGAINST US, HE AND ALL HIS PEOPLE, TO
FIGHT AT JAHAZ.
[Deuteronomy 2:33] AND THE LORD OUR GOD DELIVERED HIM BEFORE US; AND WE SMOTE
HIM, AND HIS SONS, AND ALL HIS PEOPLE.
[Deuteronomy 2:34] AND WE TOOK ALL HIS CITIES AT THAT TIME, AND UTTERLY
DESTROYED THE MEN, AND THE WOMEN, AND THE LITTLE ONES, OF EVERY CITY, WE LEFT
NONE TO REMAIN:
[Deuteronomy 2:35] ONLY THE CATTLE WE TOOK FOR A PREY UNTO OURSELVES, AND THE
SPOIL OF THE CITIES WHICH WE TOOK.
[Deuteronomy 2:36] FROM AROER, WHICH IS BY THE BRINK OF THE RIVER OF ARNON, AND
FROM THE CITY THAT IS BY THE RIVER, EVEN UNTO GILEAD, THERE WAS NOT ONE CITY TOO
STRONG FOR US: THE LORD OUR GOD DELIVERED ALL UNTO US:
[Deuteronomy 2:37] ONLY UNTO THE LAND OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON THOU CAMEST NOT,
NOR UNTO ANY PLACE OF THE RIVER JABBOK, NOR UNTO THE CITIES IN THE MOUNTAINS,
NOR UNTO WHATSOEVER THE LORD OUR GOD FORBAD US.
[Deuteronomy 3:1] THEN WE TURNED, AND WENT UP THE WAY TO BASHAN: AND OG THE KING
OF BASHAN CAME OUT AGAINST US, HE AND ALL HIS PEOPLE, TO BATTLE AT EDREI.
[Deuteronomy 3:2] AND THE LORD SAID UNTO ME, FEAR HIM NOT: FOR I WILL DELIVER
HIM, AND ALL HIS PEOPLE, AND HIS LAND, INTO THY HAND; AND THOU SHALT DO UNTO HIM
AS THOU DIDST UNTO SIHON KING OF THE AMORITES, WHICH DWELT AT HESHBON.
[Deuteronomy 3:3] SO THE LORD OUR GOD DELIVERED INTO OUR HANDS OG ALSO, THE KING
OF BASHAN, AND ALL HIS PEOPLE: AND WE SMOTE HIM UNTIL NONE WAS LEFT TO HIM
REMAINING.
[Deuteronomy 3:4] AND WE TOOK ALL HIS CITIES AT THAT TIME, THERE WAS NOT A CITY
WHICH WE TOOK NOT FROM THEM, THREESCORE CITIES, ALL THE REGION OF ARGOB, THE
KINGDOM OF OG IN BASHAN.
[Deuteronomy 3:5] ALL THESE CITIES WERE FENCED WITH HIGH WALLS, GATES, AND BARS;
BESIDE UNWALLED TOWNS A GREAT MANY.
[Deuteronomy 3:6] AND WE UTTERLY DESTROYED THEM, AS WE DID UNTO SIHON KING OF
HESHBON, UTTERLY DESTROYING THE MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN, OF EVERY CITY.
[Deuteronomy 3:7] BUT ALL THE CATTLE, AND THE SPOIL OF THE CITIES, WE TOOK FOR A
PREY TO OURSELVES.
[Deuteronomy 3:8] AND WE TOOK AT THAT TIME OUT OF THE HAND OF THE TWO KINGS OF
THE AMORITES THE LAND THAT WAS ON THIS SIDE JORDAN, FROM THE RIVER OF ARNON
UNTO MOUNT HERMON;
[Deuteronomy 3:9] (WHICH HERMON THE SIDONIANS CALL SIRION; AND THE AMORITES CALL
IT SHENIR;)
Rashi:
#Shenir.
Means SNOW in the language of
Ashkenaz [Germany] and in the
language of Canaan [Slavic]#.
Iben
Ezra (on Obadiah) says that Canaanites fleeing from Joshua settled in Germany.
In Rabbinical Writings the Slavic peoples of Bohemia (Czechia)
and later the Slavs in general were referred to as Canaanites. A Canaanite
presence in Europe should be looked into. The Bronze Age implements and art work
of the Balkans and of Scandinavia is almost identical to that of the Ancient
Hittite and other Canaanite peoples. The same would apply to North Germany.
The Rise of Bronze Age Society by
Kristian
Kristiansen and Thomas B. Larson (UK, 2007) provides hundreds of illustrated
examples of such similarities. We attribute the parallelisms to the migrations
of Israelites but other explanations are possible.
On the other hand,
Different sources indicate that Canaanites settled in Africa and that the name
Ghana (Guinea) is itself derived from an Egyptian pronunciation (Ghanan)
of the term Canaan.
[Deuteronomy 3:10] ALL THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN, AND ALL GILEAD, AND ALL BASHAN,
UNTO SALCHAH AND EDREI, CITIES OF THE KINGDOM OF OG IN BASHAN.
[Deuteronomy 3:11] FOR ONLY OG KING OF BASHAN REMAINED OF THE REMNANT OF GIANTS;
BEHOLD HIS BEDSTEAD WAS A BEDSTEAD OF IRON; IS IT NOT IN RABBATH OF THE
CHILDREN OF AMMON? NINE CUBITS WAS THE LENGTH THEREOF, AND FOUR CUBITS THE
BREADTH OF IT, AFTER THE CUBIT OF A MAN.
[Deuteronomy 3:12] AND THIS LAND, WHICH WE POSSESSED AT THAT TIME, FROM AROER,
WHICH IS BY THE RIVER ARNON, AND HALF MOUNT GILEAD, AND THE CITIES THEREOF, GAVE
I UNTO THE REUBENITES AND TO THE GADITES.
[Deuteronomy 3:13] AND THE REST OF GILEAD, AND ALL BASHAN, BEING THE KINGDOM OF
OG, GAVE I UNTO THE HALF TRIBE OF MANASSEH; ALL THE REGION OF ARGOB, WITH ALL
BASHAN, WHICH WAS CALLED THE LAND OF GIANTS.
[Deuteronomy 3:14] JAIR THE SON OF MANASSEH TOOK ALL THE COUNTRY OF ARGOB UNTO
THE COASTS OF GESHURI AND MAACHATHI; AND CALLED THEM AFTER HIS OWN NAME,
BASHANHAVOTHJAIR, UNTO THIS DAY.
Jair
is Yair.
This person fathered an important clan. They made conquests up to the Euphrates
and beyond it and were referred to in Mesopotamian records as the
IARI.
Later they became an element in Celtic Britain and gave their name to places in
Ireland and Scotland. For examples see "Lost Israelite Identity".
http://www.britam.org/Identity.html
and "The Tribes"
http://britam.org/the-Tribes.html
BASHANHAVOTHJAIR
or BASHAN-HAVOTH-
JAIR
meaning BASHAN-(the
area of Bashan)-
HAVOTH-
(villages of) -JAIR.
See also:
HEBREW CELTIC NAMESAKES
http://britam.org/namesakes.html
scroll down to:
Hebrew Celtic Namesakes # 3
YAIR
of Judah, Manasseh, Scotland, and Ireland all in One!
s.7
[Deuteronomy 3:15] AND I GAVE GILEAD UNTO MACHIR.
Where was Gilead?
We know it was east of the Jordan and that to its north was the
Bashan.
Apparently the application of both the terms Gilead and
Bashan
could move with time.
In Aramaic Bashan
became Bathan
and we find Bathan
Regio
(Kingdom of Bashan)
and Bathanaei
(People of Bashan)
on the Maps of Ptolemy (as illustrated in our work The Tribes p.105) in the far
north of Israel close the junction of the
Chabor
(Khabur)
and Euphrates Rivers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khabur_River
#The
Khabur
Valley, which now has about four million acres (16,000 km?) of farmland, is
Syria's main wheat-cultivation area. The northeastern part is also the center
for Syria's oil production.#
South of
Bashan
was Gilead.
There was Gilead of
Machir-Manasheh and Gilead of
Reuben.
Mair
Arzi
(Yad
Le Mair
Arzi,
Tel Aviv, 1988, pp.15-16) locates Mount Gilead in an area referred to as EL
GALLAD
between Palmyra and Homs
(based on an official French Map of the
levant
coordinates 345485) on the banks of the Euphrates. He also quotes Binyamin of
Toledo who located it northeast of Aleppo in
Syria.These
identifications seem to far to the north but the People of
Yair
(IAARI,
etc) from Machir
of Manasseh according to Mesopotamian (Assyrian and Babylonian etc) reports were
to be found in this area.
[Deuteronomy 3:16] AND UNTO THE REUBENITES AND UNTO THE GADITES I GAVE FROM
GILEAD EVEN UNTO THE RIVER ARNON HALF THE VALLEY, AND THE BORDER EVEN UNTO THE
RIVER JABBOK, WHICH IS THE BORDER OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON;
[Deuteronomy 3:17] THE PLAIN ALSO, AND JORDAN, AND THE COAST THEREOF, FROM
CHINNERETH EVEN UNTO THE SEA OF THE PLAIN, EVEN THE SALT SEA, UNDER
ASHDOTHPISGAH EASTWARD.
[Deuteronomy 3:18] AND I COMMANDED YOU AT THAT TIME, SAYING, THE LORD YOUR GOD
HATH GIVEN YOU THIS LAND TO POSSESS IT: YE SHALL PASS OVER ARMED BEFORE YOUR
BRETHREN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, ALL THAT ARE MEET FOR THE WAR.
[Deuteronomy 3:19] BUT YOUR WIVES, AND YOUR LITTLE ONES, AND YOUR CATTLE, (FOR I
KNOW THAT YE HAVE MUCH CATTLE,) SHALL ABIDE IN YOUR CITIES WHICH I HAVE GIVEN
YOU;
[Deuteronomy 3:20] UNTIL THE LORD HAVE GIVEN REST UNTO YOUR BRETHREN, AS WELL AS
UNTO YOU, AND UNTIL THEY ALSO POSSESS THE LAND WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD HATH
GIVEN THEM BEYOND JORDAN: AND THEN SHALL YE RETURN EVERY MAN UNTO HIS
POSSESSION, WHICH I HAVE GIVEN YOU.
[Deuteronomy 3:21] AND I COMMANDED JOSHUA AT THAT TIME, SAYING, THINE EYES HAVE
SEEN ALL THAT THE LORD YOUR GOD HATH DONE UNTO THESE TWO KINGS: SO SHALL THE
LORD DO UNTO ALL THE KINGDOMS WHITHER THOU PASSEST.
[Deuteronomy 3:22] YE SHALL NOT FEAR THEM: FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD HE SHALL FIGHT
FOR YOU.
http://www.britam.org/isaiah/Isaiah1to5.html
Haftara - Isaiah (Yeshayahu) 1:1-27
Isaiah begins his prophecy (1:1) from
the viewpoint of (a) Judah and Jerusalem. The People of Israel are Children of
the Almighty but they do not act like it but are a sinful nation (1:4). They are
physically and ecologically suffering for their sins (1:7). Alien foreigners are
taking over (1:7). If God did not have mercy upon us we would be destroyed
altogether (1:10). Your prayers and worship will not be accepted unless you act
righteously (1:12-16) meaning especially the practice of social justice with
protection and care for the vulnerable (1:17). If we repent God will forgive us
and show us favor (1:18-19) but if not violence will overtake us (1:20).
Violence, fraud and graft are among our major offences (1:21-23). This will
change. The "bad eggs" among us will be removed (1:24-25, 28).
Righteous rulers (judges) and counselors will come forth and show us the way to
redemption (1:26-27).
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