Deuteronomy 02 Moses speaks of the Edomites, Moabites, and Ammonites.

Deuteronomy 02

Moses speaks of the Edomites, Moabites, and Ammonites.

1 And we turned and walked into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea, as Jehovah had said unto me, and we compassed the mountain of Seir many days.

2 And the LORD spake unto me, saying,

3 Surely ye have compassed this mountain: turn ye northward.

4 And command the people, saying, Ye shall pass over the border of your brethren the sons of Esau, which dwell in Seir: and they shall be afraid of you; but keep yourselves well.

5 Do not entertain them with them, for I will not give you of their land, not even the foot of the sole of a foot; for to Esau I have given the mountain of Seir for an inheritance.

6 And ye shall buy of them for money, and food to eat: and also water to drink of them shall ye buy for money.

7 For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hands; he knoweth that thou walkest through this great wilderness: these forty years the Lord thy God was with thee, thou didst not lack.

8 And we passed over by our brethren the sons of Esau, which dwell in Seir, from the way of the plain of Elath and Ezion-geber, and turned and passed over the way of the wilderness of Moab.

9 And Jehovah said to me, Do not trouble Moab, and do not strive with them in battle, for I will not give you an inheritance from their land; because I have given Ar the sons of Lot for an inheritance.

10 (The emeus formerly dwell therein: a people great and numerous, and tall as the giants;

11 These were also numbered by giants like the Elya: and the Moabites called them Emes.

12 Before the Horites also they dwelt in Seir; but the sons of Esau threw them out, and destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their place, as Israel did unto the land of their inheritance, which the LORD had given them.

13 Arise now, and pass over the brook Zeredde: and we pass over the brook Zered.

14 And the days that we journeyed from Kadesh-barnea until we passed over the river Zeredim were thirty-eight years, until all that generation of the men of war was consumed out of the midst of the camp, as Jehovah sware unto them.

15 And the hand of Jehovah was against them, to destroy them in the midst of the camp until they were consumed.

16 And it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed by death in the midst of the camp.

17 The Lord spoke to me, saying,

18 You shall pass through Ar into the borders of Moab;

19 And he shall come before the children of Ammon: and do not trouble them, and do not quarrel with them: for I will not give you an inheritance out of the land of the children of Ammon, because I have inherited the children of Lot.

20 [This one also was numbered by the land of giants; Giants dwelt therein, and the Ammonites called them Zanzumeus:

21 A great people, great and great, like the giants: and the LORD destroyed them from before them, and they cast him out, and dwelt in his place;

22 As he did to the sons of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, from whom he destroyed the Horites; and they cast them out, and dwelt in their place unto this day;

23 And the Kohathites, which went forth from Caphtor, destroyed the Avites, which dwelt in Hazerim unto Gaza, and dwelt in their place.

24 Arise, go and pass over the brook of Arnon; behold, I have given Sihon, the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: and he hath taken possession of it, and hast disputed with them in battle.

25 In this day I will begin to bring terror and fear before the peoples under all heaven: those who hear his fame will tremble before you and be distressed.

26 Then I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

27 Let me pass through your land: I will go by the highway alone; I will not turn to the right or the left.

28 The food that I eat, you will sell me for money, and you will give me for money water that drinks: so let me go on foot;

29 As the sons of Esau, who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, have done to me; until I pass over Jordan, the land which the Lord our God will give us.

30 And Sihon the king of Heshbon would not suffer us to pass through him, because the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and hardened his heart to give it into thine hand, as it is this day.

31 And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give thee to Sihon, and his land before thee: therefore begin to possess it, that thou mayest inherit its land.

32 And Sihon went out against us, he and all his people, to the battle, to Jahaz:

33 And the LORD our God delivered him before us, and smote him, and his sons, and all his people.

34 And at that time we took all the cities, and destroyed all cities, men, and women and children: we left no man.

35 We took the cattle for ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we had taken.

36 From Aroer, which is on the border of the brook of Arnon, and the city that is by the brook, even unto Gilead, there was no city left of us: for all this the Lord our God hath delivered before us.

37 Only the land of the children of Ammon came not to the edge of the brook Jabbok, nor to the cities of the mountain, nor any thing which Jehovah our God had forbidden to us.