Deuteronomy 2

1Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Yahweh spoke to me; and we encircled Mount Seir many days.Cross-references: Num 14:25 · Num 21:4 · Deut 1:2 · Deut 1:40 · Judg 11:18

2Yahweh spoke to me, saying,

3“You have encircled this mountain long enough. Turn northward.Cross-references: Deut 1:6 · Deut 2:7 · Deut 2:14

4Command the people, saying, ‘You are to pass through the border of your brothers, the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Therefore be careful.Cross-references: Ex 15:15 · Num 20:14 · Num 22:3 · Num 24:14 · Deut 23:7 · Obad 1:10 · +5 more

5Don’t contend with them; for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.Cross-references: Gen 36:8 · Deut 32:8 · Josh 24:4 · 2Chr 20:10 · Jer 27:5 · Dan 4:25 · +3 more

6You shall purchase food from them for money, that you may eat. You shall also buy water from them for money, that you may drink.’”Cross-references: Num 20:19 · Deut 2:28 · Matt 7:12 · Rom 12:17 · 2Thess 3:7

7For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has known your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years, Yahweh your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.Cross-references: Gen 12:2 · Gen 24:35 · Gen 26:12 · Gen 30:27 · Gen 39:5 · Deut 8:2 · +8 more

8So we passed by from our brothers, the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.Cross-references: Num 20:20 · Num 33:35 · Deut 1:1 · Judg 11:18 · 1Ki 9:26 · 2Ki 14:22 · +1 more

9Yahweh said to me, “Don’t bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you any of his land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.”Cross-references: Gen 19:36 · Num 21:15 · Num 21:28 · Num 22:4 · Deut 2:5 · Deut 2:18 · +4 more

10(The Emim lived there before, a great and numerous people, and tall as the Anakim.Cross-references: Gen 14:5 · Num 13:22 · Deut 2:11

11These also are considered to be Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.Cross-references: Gen 14:5 · Num 13:22 · Num 13:28 · Num 13:33 · Deut 1:28 · Deut 9:2

12The Horites also lived in Seir in the past, but the children of Esau succeeded them. They destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place, as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.)Cross-references: Gen 14:6 · Gen 36:20 · Num 21:21 · Deut 2:22 · Deut 2:32 · 1Chr 1:38

13“Now rise up and cross over the brook Zered.” We went over the brook Zered.Cross-references: Num 13:23 · Num 21:12

14The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea until we had come over the brook Zered were thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the middle of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them.Cross-references: Num 13:26 · Num 14:28 · Num 26:64 · Num 32:11 · Deut 1:2 · Deut 1:19 · +10 more

15Moreover Yahweh’s hand was against them, to destroy them from the middle of the camp, until they were consumed.Cross-references: Judg 2:15 · 1Sam 5:6 · 1Sam 5:9 · 1Sam 5:11 · 1Sam 7:13 · Ps 32:4 · +5 more

16So, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

17Yahweh spoke to me, saying,

18“You are to pass over Ar, the border of Moab, today.Cross-references: Num 21:15 · Num 21:23 · Isa 15:1

19When you come near the border of the children of Ammon, don’t bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you any of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession, because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.”Cross-references: Gen 19:36 · Deut 2:5 · Deut 2:9 · Judg 11:13 · 2Chr 20:10

20(That also is considered a land of Rephaim. Rephaim lived there in the past, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,Cross-references: Gen 14:5

21a great people, many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Yahweh destroyed them from before Israel, and they succeeded them, and lived in their place,Cross-references: Deut 1:28 · Deut 2:10 · Deut 2:22 · Deut 3:11 · Judg 11:24 · Jer 27:7 · +1 more

22as he did for the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day.Cross-references: Gen 14:6 · Gen 36:8 · Gen 36:20 · Deut 2:12 · 1Chr 1:38

23Then the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza: the Caphtorim, who came out of Caphtor, destroyed them and lived in their place.)Cross-references: Gen 10:14 · Josh 13:3 · 1Ki 4:24 · Jer 25:20 · Jer 47:4 · Amos 9:7 · +3 more

24“Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon. Behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.Cross-references: Num 21:13 · Deut 2:36 · Josh 6:16 · Judg 11:18 · 2Chr 36:23 · Ezra 1:2 · +4 more

25Today I will begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.”Cross-references: Ex 15:14 · Ex 23:27 · Deut 11:25 · Deut 28:10 · Josh 2:9 · Josh 9:24 · +4 more

26I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,Cross-references: Deut 20:10 · Josh 13:18 · Josh 21:37 · Esth 9:30 · Matt 10:12 · Luke 10:5 · +1 more

27“Let me pass through your land. I will go along by the highway. I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left.Cross-references: Num 21:21 · Deut 2:6 · Judg 11:19

28You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink. Just let me pass through on my feet,Cross-references: Num 20:19

29as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me, until I pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us.”Cross-references: Ex 20:12 · Num 20:18 · Deut 2:9 · Deut 4:1 · Deut 4:21 · Deut 4:40 · +6 more

30But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as it is today.Cross-references: Ex 4:21 · Ex 11:10 · Num 21:23 · Josh 11:19 · Judg 11:20 · Isa 48:4 · +1 more

31Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before you. Begin to possess, that you may inherit his land.”Cross-references: Deut 1:8 · Deut 2:24

32Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz.Cross-references: Num 21:23 · Judg 11:20 · Neh 9:22 · Ps 120:7 · Ps 135:11 · Ps 136:19

33Yahweh our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, his sons, and all his people.Cross-references: Gen 14:20 · Num 21:24 · Deut 3:2 · Deut 7:2 · Deut 20:16 · Deut 29:7 · +4 more

34We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. We left no one remaining.Cross-references: Lev 27:28 · Num 21:2 · Deut 3:6 · Deut 7:2 · Deut 7:26 · Deut 20:16 · +6 more

35Only the livestock we took for plunder for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities which we had taken.Cross-references: Num 31:9 · Deut 20:14 · Josh 8:27

36From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. Yahweh our God delivered up all before us.Cross-references: Deut 3:12 · Deut 4:48 · Josh 1:5 · Josh 12:2 · Josh 13:9 · Josh 13:16 · +5 more

37Only to the land of the children of Ammon you didn’t come near: all the banks of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill country, and wherever Yahweh our God forbade us.Cross-references: Gen 32:22 · Num 21:24 · Deut 2:5 · Deut 2:9 · Deut 2:19 · Deut 3:16 · +2 more