What Does Deuteronomy 2:9 Mean in the King James?
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.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The word for “possession” also carries the sense of dispossessing, so this inheritance is bounded by what must remain another people’s.
THE MEANING
The reader can be near something that is not theirs to take. The verse holds gift and limit together: one people’s possession is named alongside another people’s boundary.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that proximity or power turns another person’s inheritance into an available possession.
THE ROOT
יְרֻשָּׁה
yerushah
GROWS FROM
ירש
yarash
To take possession or inherit; in some forms, to dispossess.
English “possession” sounds like a static thing, but its root also names the act of taking possession or dispossessing. The verse places restraint inside the language of inheritance itself: one people’s receiving does not erase another people’s holding.
ALSO GROWS
yarash: To inherit, take possession, or dispossess.
יָרַשׁ
The same root can name receiving land and driving another out, revealing the boundary carried within this inheritance.
morashah: An inheritance or possession received.
מוֹרָשָׁה
This related noun shows inheritance as something allotted to be held, not simply something seized because it is nearby.
THE PATTERN
An inheritance comes with boundaries that protect what has been given to others.
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.Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;THE THREAD
And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.The Hebrew word translated “inherit” here comes from the same root, ירש (yarash), as “possession” in Deuteronomy 2:9. Together, the verses show land as something given to be inherited, with its boundaries held in view.
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