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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Deuteronomy 2 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/deuteronomy/2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/deuteronomy/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Deuteronomy 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../deuteronomy/1.htm" title="Deuteronomy 1">◄</a> Deuteronomy 2 <a href="../deuteronomy/3.htm" title="Deuteronomy 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/deuteronomy/2.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Wanderings in the Wilderness</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then we turned back and set out toward the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or the Sea of Reeds">a</a></sup></span> as the <span class="name">Lord</span> had directed me. For a long time we made our way around the hill country of Seir.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Then the <span class="name">Lord</span> said to me, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“You have made your way around this hill country long enough; now turn north. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Give the people these orders: ‘You are about to pass through the territory of your relatives the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, but be very careful. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Do not provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, not even enough to put your foot on. I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as his own. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>You are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.’ ”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. These forty years the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God has been with you, and you have not lacked anything.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So we went on past our relatives the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned from the Arabah road, which comes up from Elath and Ezion Geber, and traveled along the desert road of Moab.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then the <span class="name">Lord</span> said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any part of their land. I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>(The Emites used to live there—a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Like the Anakites, they too were considered Rephaites, but the Moabites called them Emites. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land the <span class="name">Lord</span> gave them as their possession.)</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the <span class="name">Lord</span> said, “Now get up and cross the Zered Valley.” So we crossed the valley.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Thirty-eight years passed from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the <span class="name">Lord</span> had sworn to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span>’s hand was against them until he had completely eliminated them from the camp.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Now when the last of these fighting men among the people had died, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>the <span class="name">Lord</span> said to me, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“Today you are to pass by the region of Moab at Ar. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>When you come to the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them to war, for I will not give you possession of any land belonging to the Ammonites. I have given it as a possession to the descendants of Lot.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>(That too was considered a land of the Rephaites, who used to live there; but the Ammonites called them Zamzummites. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>They were a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites. The <span class="name">Lord</span> destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> had done the same for the descendants of Esau, who lived in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And as for the Avvites who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorites coming out from Caphtor <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, Crete">b</a></sup></span> destroyed them and settled in their place.)</p> <p class="sectionhead">Defeat of Sihon King of Heshbon</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>“Set out now and cross the Arnon Gorge. See, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his country. Begin to take possession of it and engage him in battle. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>This very day I will begin to put the terror and fear of you on all the nations under heaven. They will hear reports of you and will tremble and be in anguish because of you.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>From the Desert of Kedemoth I sent messengers to Sihon king of Heshbon offering peace and saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>“Let us pass through your country. We will stay on the main road; we will not turn aside to the right or to the left. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Sell us food to eat and water to drink for their price in silver. Only let us pass through on foot— <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>as the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, did for us—until we cross the Jordan into the land the <span class="name">Lord</span> our God is giving us.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>But Sihon king of Heshbon refused to let us pass through. For the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to give him into your hands, as he has now done.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span> said to me, “See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his country over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>When Sihon and all his army came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>the <span class="name">Lord</span> our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, together with his sons and his whole army. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>At that time we took all his towns and completely destroyed <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the LORD, often by totally destroying them.">c</a></sup></span> them—men, women and children. We left no survivors. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>But the livestock and the plunder from the towns we had captured we carried off for ourselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the gorge, even as far as Gilead, not one town was too strong for us. The <span class="name">Lord</span> our God gave us all of them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/2-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>But in accordance with the command of the <span class="name">Lord</span> our God, you did not encroach on any of the land of the Ammonites, neither the land along the course of the Jabbok nor that around the towns in the hills.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>the Sea of Reeds</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">23</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, Crete</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">34</span> <span class="footnotebot">The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the <span class="name">Lord</span>, often by totally destroying them.</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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