Deuteronomy 2:16
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New International Version (©2011)
Now when the last of these fighting men among the people had died,

New Living Translation (©2007)
"When all the men of fighting age had died,

English Standard Version (©2001)
“So as soon as all the men of war had perished and were dead from among the people,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"So it came about when all the men of war had finally perished from among the people,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
When all the fighting men had died among the people,

International Standard Version (©2012)
"And so all the soldiers among the people died.

NET Bible (©2006)
So it was that after all the military men had been eliminated from the community,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When the last of these soldiers had died,

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
So it came to pass, when all the men of war were perished and dead from among the people,

American King James Version
So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

American Standard Version
So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And after all the fighting men were dead,

Darby Bible Translation
And it came to pass when all the men of war were consumed, having died off from among the people,

English Revised Version
So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

Webster's Bible Translation
So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

World English Bible
So it happened, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

Young's Literal Translation
'And it cometh to pass, when all the men of battle have finished dying from the midst of the people,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

2:8-23 We have the origin of the Moabites, Edomites, and Ammonites. Moses also gives an instance older than any of these; the Caphtorims drove the Avims out of their country. These revolutions show what uncertain things wordly possessions are. It was so of old, and ever will be so. Families decline, and from them estates are transferred to families that increase; so little continuance is there in these things. This is recorded to encourage the children of Israel. If the providence of God has done this for Moabites and Ammonites, much more would his promise do it for Israel, his peculiar people. Cautions are given not to meddle with Moabites and Ammonites. Even wicked men must not be wronged. God gives and preserves outward blessings to wicked men; these are not the best things, he has better in store for his own children.

Pulpit Commentary

Verses 16-19. - The generation that sinned having quite died out, the people were now to cross the border of Moab and advance to the conquest of the Promised Land. To the east of Moab was the country of the Ammonites; these, also, the Israelites were to leave unassailed, for the Lord had given to them their land for a possession (cf. ver. 9).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed,.... By wasting diseases and judgments of one kind or another:

and dead from among the people; the rising and surviving generation.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

16. all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people—The outbreak at Kadesh on the false report of the spies had been the occasion of the fatal decree by which God doomed the whole grown-up population to die in the wilderness [Nu 14:29]; but that outbreak only filled up the measure of their iniquities. For that generation, though not universally abandoned to heathenish and idolatrous practices, yet had all along displayed a fearful amount of ungodliness in the desert, which this history only hints at obscurely, but which is expressly asserted elsewhere (Eze 20:25, 26; Am 5:25, 27; Ac 7:42, 43).

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Wanderings in the Wilderness
…15For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed. 16So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people, 17That the LORD spoke to me, saying, …

Deuteronomy 2:14 Thirty-eight years passed from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.
Deuteronomy 2:17 the LORD said to me,