Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 2:12

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 .

Of whom see Gen. 14. 6. and 36. 2[illegible: 1+ letters].

Obj. God had not yet given it unto them. Answ. 1. The past tense is here put for the future, will gi[illegible: 1+ letters], after the manner of the Prophets. 2. Things are oft said to be done when they are onely resolved▪ or decreed, or attempted to be done, in which sence Reuben is said to [illegible: 1 word] Joseph, Gen. 37. 21. Balak to fight against Israel, Ios. 24. 9. Abraham to have offered his son, Heb. 11. 17. 3. God may well be said to have given it, not onely because he had purposed and promised to give it, but also because he was now about to give it, and had already given them some part of it, and that as an earnest of the whole. 4. This may be particularly understood of that part of [illegible: 1 word] possession which was beyond [illegible: 1 word], which God had actually given to them, that is, to some of them▪ for even the land of [illegible: 1 word] on this side Iordan was not given to all of them, but onely to some of the tribes.

Marginal references: Gen. [illegible: 1+ letters]. 2[illegible: 1+ letters].; Heb. [illegible: 1 word] ▪ [illegible: 1 word].; Or, [illegible: 1 word].