Deuteronomy Chapter 2
2:1 | Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many ![]() |
2:2 | And the LORD spake unto me, saying, |
2:3 | Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward. |
2:4 | And command thou the people, saying, Ye [are] to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore: |
2:5 | Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a ![]() |
2:6 | Ye shall buy ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
2:7 | For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God [hath been] with thee; thou hast lacked nothing. |
2:8 | And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. |
2:9 | And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land [for] a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot [for] a possession. |
2:10 | The Emims dwelt therein in ![]() |
2:11 | Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims. |
2:12 | The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as ![]() |
2:13 | Now rise up, [said I], and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered. |
2:14 | And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, [was] thirty and eight years; until all the ![]() |
2:15 | For ![]() |
2:16 | So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people, |
2:17 | That the LORD spake unto me, saying, |
2:18 | Thou ![]() ![]() |
2:19 | And [when] thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon [any] possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot [for] a possession. |
2:20 | (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old ![]() |
2:21 | A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead: |
2:22 | As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this ![]() |
2:23 | And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, [even] unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.) |
2:24 | Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, ![]() |
2:25 | This ![]() |
2:26 | And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon ![]() |
2:27 | Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left. |
2:28 | Thou shalt sell me ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
2:29 | (As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us. |
2:30 | But Sihon ![]() ![]() ![]() |
2:31 | And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land. |
2:32 | Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz. |
2:33 | And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people. |
2:34 | And we took all his cities at that ![]() |
2:35 | Only the ![]() |
2:36 | From Aroer, which [is] by the brink of the river of Arnon, and [from] the city that [is] by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us: |
2:37 | Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, [nor] unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us. |