Deuteronomy 2:10 - Prayer Tents

2we finally turned and went into the desert, on the road to the Gulf of Aqaba, as the LORD had commanded, and we spent a long time wandering about in the hill country of Edom.H6437H5265H4057H1870H5488H3220H3068H1696H5437H2022H8165H7227H3117 2"Then the LORD told meH3068H559H559 3that we had spent enough time wandering about in those hills and that we should go north.H5437H2022H7227H6437H6828 4He told me to give you the following instructions 'You are about to go through the hill country of Edom, the territory of your distant relatives, the descendants of Esau. They will be afraid of you,H6680H5971H559H5674H1366H251H1121H6215H3427H8165H3372H3966H8104 5but you must not start a war with them, because I am not going to give you so much as a square foot of their land. I have given Edom to Esau's descendants.H1624H5414H776H7272H4096H3709H5414H2022H8165H6215H3425 6You may buy food and water from them.'H7666H400H3701H398H3739H4325H3701H8354 7"Remember how the LORD your God has blessed you in everything that you have done. He has taken care of you as you wandered through this vast desert. He has been with you these forty years, and you have had everything you needed.H3068H430H1288H4639H3027H3045H3212H1419H4057H705H8141H3068H430H2637H1697 8"So we moved on and left the road that goes from the towns of Elath and Eziongeber to the Dead Sea, and we turned northeast toward Moab.H5674H251H1121H6215H3427H8165H1870H6160H359H6100H6437H5674H1870H4057H4124 9The LORD said to me, 'Don't trouble the people of Moab, the descendants of Lot, or start a war against them. I have given them the city of Ar, and I am not going to give you any of their land.' "H3068H559H6696H4124H1624H4421H5414H776H3425H5414H6144H1121H3876H3425 10(A mighty race of giants called the Emim used to live in Ar. They were as tall as the Anakim, another race of giants.H368H3427H6440H5971H1419H7227H7311H6062 11Like the Anakim they were also known as Rephaim; but the Moabites called them Emim.H1992H2803H7497H6062H4125H7121H368 12The Horites used to live in Edom, but the descendants of Esau chased them out, destroyed their nation, and settled there themselves, just as the Israelites later chased their enemies out of the land that the LORD gave them.)H2752H3427H8165H6440H1121H6215H3423H8045H6440H3427H3478H6213H776H3425H3068H5414 13"Then we crossed the Zered River as the LORD told us to do.H6965H5674H5158H2218H5674H5158H2218 14This was thirty-eight years after we had left Kadesh Barnea. All the fighting men of that generation had died, as the LORD had said they would.H3117H1980H6947H5674H5158H2218H7970H8083H8141H1755H582H4421H8552H7130H4264H3068H7650 15The LORD kept on opposing them until he had destroyed them all.H3027H3068H2000H7130H4264H8552 16"After they had all died,H582H4421H8552H4191H7130H5971 17the LORD said to us,H3068H1696H559 18'Today you are to pass through the territory of Moab by way of Ar.H5674H6144H1366H4124H3117 19You will then be near the land of the Ammonites, the descendants of Lot. Don't trouble them or start a war against them, because I am not going to give you any of the land that I have given them.' "H7126H4136H1121H5983H6696H1624H5414H776H1121H5983H3425H5414H1121H3876H3425 20(This territory is also known as the land of the Rephaim, the name of the people who used to live there; the Ammonites called them Zamzummim.H2803H776H7497H7497H3427H6440H5984H7121H2157 21They were as tall as the Anakim. There were many of them, and they were a mighty race. But the LORD destroyed them, so that the Ammonites took over their land and settled there.H5971H1419H7227H7311H6062H3068H8045H6440H3423H3427 22The LORD had done the same thing for the Edomites, the descendants of Esau, who live in the hill country of Edom. He destroyed the Horites, so that the Edomites took over their land and settled there, where they still live.H6213H1121H6215H3427H8165H8045H2752H6440H3423H3427H3117 23The land along the Mediterranean coast had been settled by people from the island of Crete. They had destroyed the Avvim, the original inhabitants, and had taken over all their land as far south as the city of Gaza.)H5761H3427H2699H5804H3732H3318H3731H8045H3427 24"After we had passed through Moab, the LORD told us, 'Now, start out and cross the Arnon River. I am placing in your power Sihon, the Amorite king of Heshbon, along with his land. Attack him, and begin occupying his land.H6965H5265H5674H5158H769H7200H5414H3027H5511H567H4428H2809H776H2490H3423H1624H4421 25From today on I will make people everywhere afraid of you. Everyone will tremble with fear at the mention of your name.'H3117H2490H5414H6343H3374H6440H5971H8064H8085H8088H7264H2342H6440

Israel Defeats King Sihon

26"Then I sent messengers from the desert of Kedemoth to King Sihon of Heshbon with the following offer of peace: 05Dt 2:27 'Let us pass through your country. We will go straight through and not leave the road.H7971H4397H4057H6932H5511H4428H2809H1697H7965H559 28We will pay for the food we eat and the water we drink. All we want to do is to pass through your country,H7666H400H3701H398H5414H4325H3701H8354H5674H7272 29until we cross the Jordan River into the land that the LORD our God is giving us. The descendants of Esau, who live in Edom, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, allowed us to pass through their territory.'H1121H6215H3427H8165H4125H3427H6144H6213H5674H3383H776H3068H430H5414 30"But King Sihon would not let us pass through his country. The LORD your God had made him stubborn and rebellious, so that we could defeat him and take his territory, which we still occupy.H5511H4428H2809H14H5674H3068H430H7185H7307H3824H553H5414H3027H3117 31"Then the LORD said to me, 'Look, I have made King Sihon and his land helpless before you; take his land and occupy it.'H3068H559H7200H2490H5414H5511H776H6440H2490H3423H3423H776 32Sihon came out with all his men to fight us near the town of Jahaz,H5511H3318H7125H5971H4421H3096 33but the LORD our God put him in our power, and we killed him, his sons, and all his men.H3068H430H5414H6440H5221H1121H5971 34At the same time we captured and destroyed every town, and put everyone to death, men, women, and children. We left no survivors.H3920H5892H6256H2763H4962H802H2945H5892H7604H8300 35We took the livestock and plundered the towns.H929H962H7998H5892H3920 36The LORD our God let us capture all the towns from Aroer, on the edge of the Arnon Valley, and the city in the middle of that valley, all the way to Gilead. No town had walls too strong for us.H6177H8193H5158H769H5892H5158H1568H7151H7682H3068H430H5414H6440 37But we did not go near the territory of the Ammonites or to the banks of the Jabbok River or to the towns of the hill country or to any other place where the LORD our God had commanded us not to go.H776H1121H5983H7126H3027H5158H2999H5892H2022H3068H430H6680