John Gill Commentary Deuteronomy 2:16

"So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people," — Deuteronomy 2:16 (ASV)

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

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