2"Then we turned back and headed for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea, as the LORD had told me, and we traveled around the hill country of Seir for many days.H6437H5265H4057H1870H5488H3220H3068H1696H5437H2022H8165H7227H3117 2The LORD then said to me,H3068H559H559 3'You've been traveling around this hill country long enough; turn north.H5437H2022H7227H6437H6828 4Command the people: You are about to travel through the territory of your brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, so you must be very careful.H6680H5971H559H5674H1366H251H1121H6215H3427H8165H3372H3966H8104 5Don't fight with them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even an inch of it, because I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as [his] possession.H1624H5414H776H7272H4096H3709H5414H2022H8165H6215H3425 6You may purchase food from them with silver, so that you may eat, and buy water from them to drink.H7666H400H3701H398H3739H4325H3701H8354 7For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this immense wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you this past 40 years, and you have lacked nothing.'H3068H430H1288H4639H3027H3045H3212H1419H4057H705H8141H3068H430H2637H1697 8"So we bypassed our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. [We turned] away from the Arabah road and from Elath and Ezion-geber. We traveled along the road to the Wilderness of Moab.H5674H251H1121H6215H3427H8165H1870H6160H359H6100H6437H5674H1870H4057H4124 9The LORD said to me, 'Show no hostility toward Moab, and do not provoke them to battle, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession, since I have given Ar as a possession to the descendants of Lot.'"H3068H559H6696H4124H1624H4421H5414H776H3425H5414H6144H1121H3876H3425 10The Emim, a great and numerous people as tall as the Anakim, had previously lived there.H368H3427H6440H5971H1419H7227H7311H6062 11They were also regarded as Rephaim, like the Anakim, though the Moabites called them Emim.H1992H2803H7497H6062H4125H7121H368 12The Horites had previously lived in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out, destroying them completely and settling in their place, just as Israel did in the land of its possession the LORD gave them.H2752H3427H8165H6440H1121H6215H3423H8045H6440H3427H3478H6213H776H3425H3068H5414 13"[The LORD said,] 'Now get up and cross the Zered Valley.' So we crossed the Zered Valley.H6965H5674H5158H2218H5674H5158H2218 14The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley was 38 years until the entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.H3117H1980H6947H5674H5158H2218H7970H8083H8141H1755H582H4421H8552H7130H4264H3068H7650 15Indeed, the LORD's hand was against them, to eliminate them from the camp until they had all perished.H3027H3068H2000H7130H4264H8552 16"When all the fighting men had died among the people,H582H4421H8552H4191H7130H5971 17the LORD spoke to me,H3068H1696H559 18'Today you are going to cross the border of Moab at Ar.H5674H6144H1366H4124H3117 19When you get close to the Ammonites, don't show any hostility to them or fight with them, for I will not give you any of the Ammonites' land as a possession; I have given it as a possession to the descendants of Lot.'"H7126H4136H1121H5983H6696H1624H5414H776H1121H5983H3425H5414H1121H3876H3425 20This too used to be regarded as the land of the Rephaim. The Rephaim lived there previously, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummim,H2803H776H7497H7497H3427H6440H5984H7121H2157 21a great and numerous people, tall as the Anakim. The LORD destroyed the Rephaim at the advance of the Ammonites, so that they drove them out and settled in their place.H5971H1419H7227H7311H6062H3068H8045H6440H3423H3427 22This was just as He had done for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites before them; they drove them out and have lived in their place until now.H6213H1121H6215H3427H8165H8045H2752H6440H3423H3427H3117 23The Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, and settled in their place.H5761H3427H2699H5804H3732H3318H3731H8045H3427 24"[The LORD also said,] 'Get up, move out, and cross the Arnon Valley. See, I have handed Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land over to you. Begin to take possession [of it]; engage him in battle.H6965H5265H5674H5158H769H7200H5414H3027H5511H567H4428H2809H776H2490H3423H1624H4421 25Today I will begin to put the fear and dread of you on the peoples everywhere under heaven. They will hear the report about you, tremble, and be in anguish because of you.'H3117H2490H5414H6343H3374H6440H5971H8064H8085H8088H7264H2342H6440 26"So I sent messengers with an offer of peace to Sihon king of Heshbon from the Wilderness of Kedemoth, saying,H7971H4397H4057H6932H5511H4428H2809H1697H7965H559 27'Let us travel through your land; we will keep strictly to the highway. We will not turn to the right or the left.H5674H776H3212H1870H1870H5493H3225H8040 28You can sell us food in exchange for silver so we may eat, and give us water for silver so we may drink. Only let us travel through on foot,H7666H400H3701H398H5414H4325H3701H8354H5674H7272 29just as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir did for us, and the Moabites who live in Ar, until we cross the Jordan into the land the LORD our God is giving us.'H1121H6215H3427H8165H4125H3427H6144H6213H5674H3383H776H3068H430H5414 30But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us travel through his land, for the LORD your God made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to hand him over to you, as has now taken place.H5511H4428H2809H14H5674H3068H430H7185H7307H3824H553H5414H3027H3117 31"Then the LORD said to me, 'See, I have begun to give Sihon and his land to you. Begin to take possession of it.'H3068H559H7200H2490H5414H5511H776H6440H2490H3423H3423H776 32So Sihon and his whole army came out against us for battle at Jahaz.H5511H3318H7125H5971H4421H3096 33The LORD our God handed him over to us, and we defeated him, his sons, and his whole army.H3068H430H5414H6440H5221H1121H5971 34At that time we captured all his cities and completely destroyed the people of every city, including the women and children. We left no survivors.H3920H5892H6256H2763H4962H802H2945H5892H7604H8300 35We took only the livestock and the spoil from the cities we captured as plunder for ourselves.H929H962H7998H5892H3920 36There was no city that was inaccessible to us, from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead. The LORD our God gave everything to us.H6177H8193H5158H769H5892H5158H1568H7151H7682H3068H430H5414H6440 37But you did not go near the Ammonites' land, all along the bank of the Jabbok River and the cities of the hill country, everything that the LORD our God had commanded.H776H1121H5983H7126H3027H5158H2999H5892H2022H3068H430H6680
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