Deuteronomy 2:33
וַֽיִּתְּנֵהוּ יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵינוּ לְפָנֵינוּ וַנַּךְ אֹתוֹ וְאֶת־בָּנָיו וְאֶת־כָּל־עַמּֽוֹ׃
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וַֽיִּתְּנֵ֛הוּ יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ לְפָנֵ֑ינוּ וַנַּ֥ךְ אֹת֛וֹ וְאֶת־בָּנָ֖יו וְאֶת־כָּל־עַמּֽוֹ׃
καὶ παρέδωκεν αὐτὸν Κύριος ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶν πρὸ προσώπου ἡμῶν, καὶ ἐπάταξεν αὐτὸν καὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ κα πάντα τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ·
Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0
Latin (Vulgate)
Et tradidit eum Dominus Deus noster nobis: percussimusque eum cum filiis suis et omni populo suo.
El Señor, nuestro Dios, lo entregó ante nosotros, y lo derrotamos a él, a sus hijos y a todo su pueblo.
Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)
Mas Jehová nuestro Dios lo entregó delante de nosotros; y herimos á él y á sus hijos, y á todo su pueblo.
And the LORD our God delivered him over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and his whole army.
✦ What the text says
Summary
The verse reports that Yehovah handed over an enemy king before the Israelites, and that they struck him down along with his sons and all his people. It is the culmination of the narrative of confrontation described in the surrounding verses.
Key words
- yi.te.Ne.hu ("he delivered up him", H5414G) — qal narrative verb with 3ms pronominal suffix "him"; the subject follows (Yehovah), producing "and he delivered him up."
- Yah.weh ("Yehovah", H3068G) — the divine name, subject of the verb of delivering.
- 'e.lo.Hei.nu ("God of us", H0430G) — plural construct noun with 1st plural suffix, "our God," in apposition to Yehovah.
- le.fa.Nei.nu ("to the face of us", H6440G) — construct noun "face" with preposition and 1st plural suffix, idiomatically "before us."
- Nakh ("we struck down", H5221) — hiphil narrative verb, causative form, 1st plural subject, "and we struck down."
What the text says
The verse opens with a narrative vav construction, va-yi.te.Ne.hu ("and he delivered up him"), where the object suffix "him" is attached directly to the verb before the subject Yah.weh ("Yehovah", H3068G) is named. This is a common Hebrew word order where the pronominal object precedes explicit identification of the subject, which follows as Yah.weh 'e.lo.Hei.nu ("Yehovah our God"). The phrase le.fa.Nei.nu ("before us", H6440G) uses the construct noun "face" with a possessive suffix, an idiom meaning "in front of us" or "before us," describing the manner in which the enemy was delivered.
The second clause, va.Nakh 'o.To ("and we struck down him"), uses the hiphil (causative) stem of the verb for "to strike," with a 1st person plural narrative form, continuing the sequence of action. The direct object marker 'et (H0853) appears three times, marking three objects in series: 'oto ("him"), 'et-banav ("his sons", H1121A with 3ms suffix), and 'et-kol-'ammo ("all his people", H5971A with 3ms suffix, under the construct chain "all of his people"). Each object is joined by the conjunction ve ("and", H9002), producing a list structure: the king, his sons, and all his people are named as the objects struck down.
Differences between versions
The LXX renders 'ammo ("his people", H5971A) with λαὸν ("people"), matching the Hebrew sense of a general populace, while the BSB translates this same word as "his whole army," narrowing the scope to a military force rather than "people" in general. The Vulgate's nobis ("to us") for le.fa.Nei.nu ("before us", H6440G) shifts the idiom slightly, rendering it as "delivered to us" rather than preserving the spatial sense of "before our face" found in the Hebrew.
This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.