The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Deuteronomy 02
1 Then 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.
2 Yahweh spoke to me, saying,
3 “You have encircled this mountain long
enough. Turn northward.
4 Command 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.
5 Don’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.
6 You shall purchase food from them for
money, that you may eat. You shall also
buy water from them for money, that you
may drink.’ ”
7 For 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.
8 So we passed by from our brothers, the
children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from
the way ofthe Arabah from Elath and from
Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the
way of the wilderness of Moab.
9 Yahweh said to me, “Don’t bother
Moab, neither contend withthem inbattle;
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.”
10 (The Emim lived there before, a great
and numerous people, and tall as the
Anakim.
11 These also are considered to be
Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites
call them Emim.
12 The 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.)
13 “Now rise up and cross over the brook
Zered.” We went over the brook Zered.
14 The 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.
15 Moreover Yahweh’s hand was against
them, to destroy them from the middle of
the camp, until they were consumed.
16 So, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
17 Yahweh spoke to me, saying,
18 “You are to pass over Ar, the border of
Moab, today.
19 When 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.”
20 (That also is considered a land of
Rephaim. Rephaim lived there in the past,
but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,
21 a great people, many, and tall, as the
Anakim; but Yahweh destroyed them from
before Israel, and they succeeded them,
and lived in their place,
22 as 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.
23 Then the Avvim, who lived in villages
as far as Gaza: the Caphtorim, who came
out of Caphtor, destroyed them and lived
in their place.)
24 “Rise up, take your journey, and pass
over the valley of the Arnon. Behold, I
have giveninto yourhand Sihonthe Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to
possess it, and contend with him in battle.
25 Today 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.”
26 I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemothto Sihonking ofHeshbon
with words of peace, saying,
27 “Let me pass through your land. I will
go along by the highway. I willturn neither
to the right hand nor to the left.
28 You 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,
29 as 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.”
30 But 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.
31 Yahweh 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.”
32 Then Sihon came out against us, he
and all his people, to battle at Jahaz.
33 Yahweh our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, his sons, and
all his people.
34 We 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.
35 Only the livestock we took for plunder
for ourselves, with the plunder ofthe cities
which we had taken.
36 From 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.
37 Only 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.