The Pulpit Commentary on Deuteronomy 3:18-20

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Moses reminds the two and a half tribes of the conditions on which they had received the possessions they had desired beyond Jordan (see Numbers 32:20-32). All that are meet for the war; literally, all the sons of might ( בְּנֵי חַיִל), i.e. not all who were men of war or of age to go to war, but men specially powerful and fitted for warlike enterprise. Until the Lord hath given rest auto your brethren (corer. Exodus 33:14).

Deuteronomy 3:21, Deuteronomy 3:22

Joshua appointed as Moses' successor in the leadership.

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