Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 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.
6. Ye shall purchase ye shall buy ] Heb. shabar, literally to deal in grain (Gen 41:57, etc.), but also victuals (Gen 42:7), and karah, to buy, only here Hos 3:2 and in Job. JE, Num 20:19: if we drink of thy water, I and my cattle, then I will give the price thereof. To-day nomad Arabs, who winter in the warm ‘Arabah, seek to cross Mt Se‘r with their cattle by one or other of several passes to summer pastures on the E. plateau and the wilderness of Moab. The passes are easily defended by the peasants of the Mt, who seek to prevent them; yet they are glad when the nomads travel on the edge of the desert, for then they can barter with them (Musil, Edom, ii. 15). Where there are no brooks but only cisterns or easily guarded springs, the peasant possessors of these will refuse to sell even small draughts to one or two passing travellers, as the writer has more than once experienced; cp. Musil, Moab, 132. It is conceivable how water would be still more jealously guarded from a large caravan or host, with appetites sufficient to exhaust the cisterns. It is implied in Deu 2:29 that Edom agreed to supply food and water.
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Buy meat of them; for though the manna did yet rain upon them, they were not forbidden to buy other meats when they had opportunity, but only were forbidden greedily to hunger after them when they could not obtain them.
Buy water of them; for water in those parts was scarce, and therefore private persons did severally dig pits for their particular use. See Gen 26:18; Num 21:18.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
Ver. 6 Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat,…. That is, if they would, as Aben Ezra observes; for though they had manna daily, yet if they would they might buy other food when they had an opportunity, as they would now have of Edom; but then they were not to take it by force or stealth, but pay for it, which they were able to do. The same writer observes, that some read the words with an interrogation, “shall ye buy meat?” no, there is no need of it; for the Lord had blessed them with a sufficiency of it:
and ye shall also buy water of them for money; that ye may drink; which was usual in those hot countries; [See comments on Nu 20:19] or dig water y that is, pay for digging of wells for water, or buy water out of wells dug in the land of Edom. Jarchi says in maritime places they express buying by this word, and so it is used in the Arabic language;
[See comments on Ho 3:2].
y “fodietis”, Montanus.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(6) Ye shall buy meat . . . and . . . water.Comp. Gen. 14:23, Lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich, and Deu. 15:1, I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
6. Buy water The Hebrew word used implies purchasing permission to dig for water.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Deu 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.
Ver. 6. Buy meat of them for money. ] “Money answereth all things,” saith Solomon. Ecc 10:19 Money is the monarch of the world, saith another, and bears most mastery. But that covetous Caliph of Babylon, taken by Haalon, brother to Mango the great Cham of Tartary, and commanded to eat his fill of that great wealth that he had heaped up together, found ere he died, that one mouthful of meat was more worth than a whole houseful of money. a
a Turk. Hist., fol. 113.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
meat. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (App-6) for all kinds of food.
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Deu 2:28, Deu 2:29, Num 20:19, Mat 7:12, Rom 12:17, 2Th 3:7, 2Th 3:8
Reciprocal: Deu 2:27 – General
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Deu 2:6. Buy meat of them for money For though the manna did yet rain upon them, they were not forbidden to buy other meats when they had opportunity, but only were forbidden greedily to hunger after them when they could not obtain them. Buy water For water in those parts was scarce, and therefore private persons did severally dig pits for their particular use.