Deuteronomy 2:16-25

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¹⁶ When the last of those fighting men had died, ¹⁷ the Lord said to me, ¹⁸ “Today you will pass by Ar, on the border of Moab. ¹⁹ When you come near the ·people [^Lsons; descendants] of Ammon, don’t ·bother [harrass] them or go to war against them, because I will not give you any of their land as your own. I have given it to the ·descendants [sons] of Lot for their own.”

²⁰ (That land was also thought to be a land of the ·Rephaites [or Rephaim; 2:11], because those people used to live there, but the Ammonites called them Zamzummites. ²¹ They were strong people, and there were many of them; they were very tall, like the Anakites. The Lord destroyed the Zamzummites, and the Ammonites forced them out of the land and took their place. ²² The Lord did the same thing for the ·descendants [sons] of Esau, who lived in ·Edom [^LSeir; 1:44], when he destroyed the Horites. ·The Edomites [^LThey] forced them out of the land and took their place, and they live there to this day. ²³ The ·Cretan people [^LCaphtorim; ^Cbetter known as Philistines] came from ·Crete [^LCaphtor] and destroyed the Avvites, who lived in towns all the way to Gaza; the ·Cretans [^LCaphtorim] destroyed them and took their place.)

Fighting the Amorites

²⁴ The Lord said, “Get up and cross the Arnon ·Ravine [Wadi]. See, I am ·giving you the power to defeat [^Lputting in your hand] Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and I am giving you his land [Num. 21:21–32]. So fight against him and begin taking his land. ²⁵ Today I will begin to make all the people ·in the world [^Lunder heaven] afraid of you. When they hear reports about you, they will shake with fear, and they will be terrified of you.”