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DeuteronomyWEB
Deuteronomy 2:1WEB
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.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 2:2WEB
Yahweh spoke to me, saying,
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 2:3WEB
“You have encircled this mountain long enough. Turn northward.
Deuteronomy 2:4WEB
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.
Deuteronomy 2:5WEB
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.
Deuteronomy 2:6WEB
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.’”
Deuteronomy 2:7WEB
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.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 2:8WEB
So 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.
Deuteronomy 2:9WEB
Yahweh 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.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 2:10WEB
(The Emim lived there before, a great and numerous people, and tall as the Anakim.
Deuteronomy 2:11WEB
These also are considered to be Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
Deuteronomy 2:12WEB
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.)
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 2:13WEB
“Now rise up and cross over the brook Zered.” We went over the brook Zered.
Deuteronomy 2:14WEB
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.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 2:15WEB
Moreover Yahweh’s hand was against them, to destroy them from the middle of the camp, until they were consumed.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 2:16WEB
So, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
Deuteronomy 2:17WEB
Yahweh spoke to me, saying,
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 2:18WEB
“You are to pass over Ar, the border of Moab, today.
Deuteronomy 2:19WEB
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.”
Deuteronomy 2:20WEB
(That also is considered a land of Rephaim. Rephaim lived there in the past, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,
Deuteronomy 2:21WEB
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,
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 2:22WEB
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.
Deuteronomy 2:23WEB
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.)
Deuteronomy 2:24WEB
“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.
Deuteronomy 2:25WEB
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.”
Deuteronomy 2:26WEB
I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
Deuteronomy 2:27WEB
“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.
Deuteronomy 2:28WEB
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,
Deuteronomy 2:29WEB
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.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 2:30WEB
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.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 2:31WEB
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.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 2:32WEB
Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz.
Deuteronomy 2:33WEB
Yahweh our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, his sons, and all his people.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 2:34WEB
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.
Deuteronomy 2:35WEB
Only the livestock we took for plunder for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities which we had taken.
Deuteronomy 2:36WEB
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.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Deuteronomy 2:37WEB
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.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.