Deuteronomy 2:30

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30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Jehovah thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as at this day.


Commentary on this verse  

By Alexander Payne

Verse 30. But self-love, which reigns supreme in the natural mind before regeneration, will not suffer the regenerate thus to proceed unmolested on their heavenly journey; for it is diametrically opposed both in will and opinion to all good and truth from the Lord, and refuses all agreement with spiritual things, and must therefore be entirely overcome and conquered in the state to which the soul has now arrived.