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They will be afraid of you, so you must be very careful. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Do not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even a footprint, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as his possession. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/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.’” <A name="8"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing. <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So we passed by our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned away from the Arabah road, which comes up from Elath and Ezion-geber, and traveled along the road of the Wilderness of Moab. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then the LORD said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.” <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>(The Emites used to live there, a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The 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 that the LORD gave them as their possession.) <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“Now arise and cross over the Brook of Zered.” <p class="reg"> So we crossed over the Brook of Zered. <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Indeed, the LORD’s hand was against them, to eliminate them from the camp, until they had all perished. <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Now when all the fighting men among the people had died, <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>the LORD said to me, <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“Today you are going to cross the border of Moab at Ar. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But when you get close to the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the Ammonites. I have given it to the descendants of Lot as their possession.” <A name="21"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>(That too was regarded as the land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummites. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>They were a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites. But the LORD destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place, <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>just as He had done 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. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, were destroyed by the Caphtorites, who came out of Caphtor<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> and settled in their place.) <A name="25"></a><p class="hdg">The Defeat of Sihon<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../numbers/21.htm#21">Numbers 21:21–30</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>“Arise, set out, and cross the Arnon Valley. See, I have delivered into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession of it and engage him in battle. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>This very day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon all the nations under heaven. They will hear the reports of you and tremble in anguish because of you.” <A name="27"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>So from the Wilderness of Kedemoth I sent messengers with an offer of peace to Sihon king of Heshbon, saying, <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>“Let us pass through your land; we will stay on the main road. We will not turn to the right or to the left. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>You can sell us food to eat and water to drink in exchange for silver. Only let us pass through on foot, <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>just 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 that the LORD our God is giving us.” <A name="31"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as is the case this day. <A name="32"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Then the LORD said to me, “See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his land over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land.” <A name="33"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>So Sihon and his whole army came out for battle against us at Jahaz. <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And the LORD our God delivered him over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and his whole army. <A name="35"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>At that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors. <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>We carried off for ourselves only the livestock and the plunder from the cities we captured. <A name="37"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/2-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>But you did not go near the land of the Ammonites, or the land along the banks of the Jabbok River, or the cities of the hill country, or any place that the LORD our God had forbidden.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>the Sea of Reeds</i><br><span class="fnverse">23</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> That is, Crete<br><span class="fnverse">34</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Forms of the Hebrew <i>cherem</i> refer to the giving over of things or persons to the LORD, either by destroying them or by giving them as an offering.<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Standard Bible (BSB)</a> printed 2016, 2020, 2022, 2025 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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