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Deuteronomy 2
Legacy Standard Bible

Wanderings in the Wilderness

2 “(A)Then we turned and set out for the wilderness by the way to the [a]Red Sea, as Yahweh spoke to me, and circled (B)Mount Seir for many days. 2 And Yahweh spoke to me, saying, 3 ‘You have circled this mountain long enough. Now turn north, 4 (C)and command the people, saying, “You are going to pass through the (D)territory of your brothers the sons of Esau who live in Seir; and (E)they will be afraid of you. So be very careful; 5 do not [b]provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, even as little as a [c]footstep (F)because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession. 6 You shall buy food from them with money so that you may eat, and you shall also bargain with them for water with money so that you may drink. 7 For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand; He has known your [d]wanderings through this (G)great wilderness. These (H)forty years Yahweh your God has been with you; you have not lacked a thing.”’

8 “So we passed beyond our brothers the sons of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the (I)Arabah road, away from Elath and (J)from Ezion-geber. And we turned and passed through by the way of the wilderness of Moab. 9 Then Yahweh said to me, ‘Do not harass Moab, nor provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of [e]their land as a possession because I have given (K)Ar to (L)the sons of Lot as a possession.’ 10 (The (M)Emim lived there formerly, a people as great, numerous, and tall as the Anakim. 11 Like the Anakim, they are also regarded as (N)Rephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim. 12 (O)Now the Horites formerly lived in Seir, but the sons of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their place, (P)just as Israel would do to the land of [f]their possession which Yahweh gave to them.) 13 ‘Now arise and cross over the [g]brook Zered yourselves.’ So we crossed over the [h]brook Zered. 14 Now the [i]time that it took for us to come from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the [j]brook Zered was (Q)thirty-eight years, until (R)all the generation of the men of war came to an end from within the camp, as (S)Yahweh had sworn to them. 15 (T)Moreover the hand of Yahweh was against them, to bring them into confusion from within the camp until they all came to an end.

16 “So it happened when (U)all the men of war had come to an end in death from among the people, 17 that Yahweh spoke to me, saying, 18 ‘Today you are about to cross over (V)Ar, the border of Moab. 19 And you will come opposite the (W)sons of Ammon. Do not harass them nor provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the sons of Ammon as a possession because I have given it to (X)the sons of Lot as a possession.’ 20 (It is also regarded as the land of the (Y)Rephaim, for Rephaim formerly lived in it, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummin, 21 a people as great, numerous, and tall as the Anakim, but Yahweh destroyed them before them. And they dispossessed them and settled in their place, 22 just as He did for the sons of Esau, who (Z)live in Seir, when He destroyed (AA)the Horites from before them; they dispossessed them and settled in their place even to this day. 23 And the (AB)Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the [k](AC)Caphtorim who came from [l](AD)Caphtor, destroyed them and lived in their place.) 24 ‘Arise, set out, and pass through the [m](AE)valley of Arnon. Look! I have given Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land into your hand; begin to take possession and provoke him to battle. 25 This day I will begin to put (AF)the dread and fear of you [n]upon the peoples [o]everywhere under the heavens, who, when they hear the report of you, (AG)will tremble and be in anguish because of you.’

26 “(AH)So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying, 27 ‘Let me pass through your land, I will [p]go only on the highway; I will not turn aside to the right or to the left. 28 You will sell me food for money so that I may eat, and give me water for money so that I may drink; (AI)only let me pass through on [q]foot, 29 just as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in (AJ)Ar did for me, until I cross over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God is giving to us.’ 30 But (AK)Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass [r]through his land, for (AL)Yahweh your God stiffened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, in order to give him over into your hand, as he is today. 31 And Yahweh said to me, ‘See, I have begun to give Sihon and his land [s]over to you. Begin to possess, so that you may fully possess his land.’

32 “Then Sihon [t]with all his people came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz. 33 (AM)But Yahweh our God gave him [u]over to us, and we (AN)struck him down with his sons and all his people. 34 So we captured all his cities at that time and [v](AO)devoted to destruction [w]the men, women, and little ones of every city. We left no survivor remaining. 35 We took (AP)only the animals as our plunder and the spoil of the cities which we had captured. 36 From (AQ)Aroer which is on the edge of the [x]valley of Arnon and from the city which is in the [y]valley, even to Gilead, there was not a town that was too high for us; Yahweh our God gave all [z]over to us. 37 (AR)Only you did not go near to the land of the sons of Ammon, all along the [aa]river (AS)Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever Yahweh our God had commanded us.

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 2:1 Lit Sea of Reeds
  2. Deuteronomy 2:5 Or engage in strife with
  3. Deuteronomy 2:5 Lit treading of a sole of a foot
  4. Deuteronomy 2:7 Lit goings
  5. Deuteronomy 2:9 Lit his
  6. Deuteronomy 2:12 Lit his
  7. Deuteronomy 2:13 Or wadi
  8. Deuteronomy 2:13 Or wadi
  9. Deuteronomy 2:14 Lit days in which we went
  10. Deuteronomy 2:14 Or wadi
  11. Deuteronomy 2:23 Possibly ancestors to the Philistines, cf. Gen 10:14; Jer 47:4
  12. Deuteronomy 2:23 Possibly Crete
  13. Deuteronomy 2:24 Or wadi
  14. Deuteronomy 2:25 Lit in front of
  15. Deuteronomy 2:25 Lit under all the heavens
  16. Deuteronomy 2:27 Lit go by the way
  17. Deuteronomy 2:28 Lit my feet
  18. Deuteronomy 2:30 Lit by him
  19. Deuteronomy 2:31 Lit before you
  20. Deuteronomy 2:32 Lit he and
  21. Deuteronomy 2:33 Lit before us
  22. Deuteronomy 2:34 Or put them under the ban
  23. Deuteronomy 2:34 Lit every city of men...
  24. Deuteronomy 2:36 Or wadi
  25. Deuteronomy 2:36 Or wadi
  26. Deuteronomy 2:36 Lit before us
  27. Deuteronomy 2:37 Or wadi
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Deuteronomy 2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

2 1 “we journeyed back into the wilderness, in the direction of the Red Sea,[a] as the Lord had told me, and skirted Mount Seir for many days.(A) 2 Then the Lord said to me, 3 ‘You have been skirting this hill country long enough. Head north, 4 and charge the people as follows: “You are about to pass through the territory of your kindred, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, so be very careful(B) 5 not to engage in battle with them, for I will not give you even so much as a foot’s length of their land, since I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.(C) 6 You shall purchase food from them for money, so that you may eat, and you shall also buy water from them for money, so that you may drink. 7 Surely the Lord your God has blessed you in all your undertakings; he knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.” ’(D) 8 So we passed by our kin, the descendants of Esau who live in Seir, leaving behind the route of the Arabah and leaving behind Elath and Ezion-geber.

“When we had headed out along the route of the wilderness of Moab,(E) 9 the Lord said to me, ‘Do not harass Moab or engage them in battle, for I will not give you any of its land as a possession, since I have given Ar as a possession to the descendants of Lot.’(F) 10 (The Emim—a large and numerous people, as tall as the Anakim—had formerly inhabited it.(G) 11 Like the Anakim, they are usually reckoned as Rephaim, though the Moabites call them Emim. 12 Moreover, the Horim had formerly inhabited Seir, but the descendants of Esau dispossessed them, destroying them and settling in their place, as Israel has done in the land that the Lord gave them as a possession.)(H) 13 ‘Now then, proceed to cross over the Wadi Zered.’

“So we crossed over the Wadi Zered. 14 And the length of time we had traveled from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, until the entire generation of warriors had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn concerning them.(I) 15 Indeed, the Lord’s own hand was against them, to root them out from the camp, until all had perished.(J)

16 “Just as soon as all the warriors had died off from among the people, 17 the Lord spoke to me, saying, 18 ‘Today you are going to cross the boundary of Moab at Ar. 19 When you approach the frontier of the Ammonites, do not harass them or engage them in battle, for I will not give the land of the Ammonites to you as a possession, because I have given it to the descendants of Lot.’(K) 20 (It also is usually reckoned as a land of Rephaim. Rephaim formerly inhabited it, though the Ammonites call them Zamzummim, 21 a strong and numerous people, as tall as the Anakim. But the Lord destroyed them from before the Ammonites[b] so that they could dispossess them and settle in their place.(L) 22 He did the same for the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, by destroying the Horites before them so that they could dispossess them and settle in their place even to this day.(M) 23 As for the Avvim, who had lived in settlements in the vicinity of Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and settled in their place.)(N) 24 ‘Proceed on your journey and cross the Wadi Arnon. See, I have handed over to you King Sihon the Amorite of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession by engaging him in battle.(O) 25 This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the peoples everywhere under heaven; when they hear report of you, they will tremble and be in anguish because of you.’(P)

Defeat of King Sihon

26 “So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to King Sihon of Heshbon with the following terms of peace:(Q) 27 ‘If you let me pass through your land, I will travel only along the road; I will turn aside neither to the right nor to the left.(R) 28 You shall sell me food for money, so that I may eat, and supply me water for money, so that I may drink. Only allow me to pass through on foot(S)— 29 just as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir have done for me and likewise the Moabites who live in Ar—until I cross the Jordan into the land that the Lord our God is giving us.’ 30 But King Sihon of Heshbon was not willing to let us pass through, for the Lord your God had hardened his spirit and made his heart defiant in order to hand him over to you, as he has now done.(T)

31 “The Lord said to me, ‘See, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin now to take possession of his land.’(U) 32 So when Sihon came out against us, he and all his people for battle at Jahaz,(V) 33 the Lord our God gave him over to us, and we struck him down, along with his offspring and all his people. 34 At that time we captured all his towns, and in each town we utterly destroyed men, women, and children. We left not a single survivor.(W) 35 Only the livestock we kept as spoil for ourselves, as well as the plunder of the towns that we had captured. 36 From Aroer on the edge of the Wadi Arnon (including the town that is in the wadi itself) as far as Gilead, there was no citadel too high for us. The Lord our God gave everything to us.(X) 37 You did not encroach, however, on the land of the Ammonites, avoiding the whole upper region of the Wadi Jabbok as well as the towns of the hill country, just as[c] the Lord our God had charged.(Y)

Footnotes

  1. 2.1 Or Sea of Reeds
  2. 2.21 Heb before them
  3. 2.37 Gk Tg: Heb and all
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