Deuteronomy 2:30 - Prayer Tents

The Desert Years

2"Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness of the Way of the Red Sea, as the LORD spoke to me, and we skirted Mount Seir for many days.H6437H5265H4057H1870H5488H3220H3068H1696H5437H2022H8165H7227H3117

2"And the LORD spoke to me, saying:H3068H559H559

3'You have skirted this mountain long enough; turn northward.H5437H2022H7227H6437H6828

4'And command the people, saying, "You are about to pass through the territory of your brethren, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Therefore watch yourselves carefully.H6680H5971H559H5674H1366H251H1121H6215H3427H8165H3372H3966H8104

5"Do not meddle with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as one footstep, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.H1624H5414H776H7272H4096H3709H5414H2022H8165H6215H3425

6"You shall buy food from them with money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water from them with money, that you may drink.H7666H400H3701H398H3739H4325H3701H8354

7"For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He knows your trudging through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing."'H3068H430H1288H4639H3027H3045H3212H1419H4057H705H8141H3068H430H2637H1697

8"And when we passed beyond our brethren, the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir, away from the road of the plain, away from Elath and Ezion Geber, we turned and passed by way of the Wilderness of Moab.H5674H251H1121H6215H3427H8165H1870H6160H359H6100H6437H5674H1870H4057H4124

9"Then the LORD said to me, 'Do not harass Moab, nor contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.'"H3068H559H6696H4124H1624H4421H5414H776H3425H5414H6144H1121H3876H3425

10(The Emim had dwelt there in times past, a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anakim.H368H3427H6440H5971H1419H7227H7311H6062

11They were also regarded as giants, like the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim.H1992H2803H7497H6062H4125H7121H368

12The Horites formerly dwelt in Seir, but the descendants of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their place, just as Israel did to the land of their possession which the LORD gave them.)H2752H3427H8165H6440H1121H6215H3423H8045H6440H3427H3478H6213H776H3425H3068H5414

13" 'Now rise and cross over the Valley of the Zered.' So we crossed over the Valley of the Zered.H6965H5674H5158H2218H5674H5158H2218

14"And the time we took to come from Kadesh Barnea until we crossed over the Valley of the Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, just as the LORD had sworn to them.H3117H1980H6947H5674H5158H2218H7970H8083H8141H1755H582H4421H8552H7130H4264H3068H7650

15"For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp until they were consumed.H3027H3068H2000H7130H4264H8552

16"So it was, when all the men of war had finally perished from among the people,H582H4421H8552H4191H7130H5971

17"that the LORD spoke to me, saying:H3068H1696H559

18'This day you are to cross over at Ar, the boundary of Moab.H5674H6144H1366H4124H3117

19'And when you come near the people of Ammon, do not harass them or meddle with them, for I will not give you any of the land of the people of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the descendants of Lot as a possession.'"H7126H4136H1121H5983H6696H1624H5414H776H1121H5983H3425H5414H1121H3876H3425

20(That was also regarded as a land of giants; giants formerly dwelt there. But the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,H2803H776H7497H7497H3427H6440H5984H7121H2157

21a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anakim. But the LORD destroyed them before them, and they dispossessed them and dwelt in their place,H5971H1419H7227H7311H6062H3068H8045H6440H3423H3427

22just as He had done for the descendants of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them. They dispossessed them and dwelt in their place, even to this day.H6213H1121H6215H3427H8165H8045H2752H6440H3423H3427H3117

23And the Avim, who dwelt in villages as far as Gaza—the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and dwelt in their place.)H5761H3427H2699H5804H3732H3318H3731H8045H3427

24" 'Rise, take your journey, and cross over the River Arnon. Look, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to possess it, and engage him in battle.H6965H5265H5674H5158H769H7200H5414H3027H5511H567H4428H2809H776H2490H3423H1624H4421

25'This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the nations under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.'H3117H2490H5414H6343H3374H6440H5971H8064H8085H8088H7264H2342H6440

King Sihon Defeated

26"And I sent messengers from the Wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying,H7971H4397H4057H6932H5511H4428H2809H1697H7965H559

27'Let me pass through your land; I will keep strictly to the road, and I will turn neither to the right nor to the left.H5674H776H3212H1870H1870H5493H3225H8040

28'You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink; only let me pass through on foot,H7666H400H3701H398H5414H4325H3701H8354H5674H7272

29'just as the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir and the Moabites who dwell in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan to the land which the LORD our God is giving us.'H1121H6215H3427H8165H4125H3427H6144H6213H5674H3383H776H3068H430H5414

30"But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as it is this day.H5511H4428H2809H14H5674H3068H430H7185H7307H3824H553H5414H3027H3117

31"And the LORD said to me, 'See, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to possess it, that you may inherit his land.'H3068H559H7200H2490H5414H5511H776H6440H2490H3423H3423H776

32"Then Sihon and all his people came out against us to fight at Jahaz.H5511H3318H7125H5971H4421H3096

33"And the LORD our God delivered him over to us; so we defeated him, his sons, and all his people.H3068H430H5414H6440H5221H1121H5971

34"We took all his cities at that time, and we utterly destroyed the men, women, and little ones of every city; we left none remaining.H3920H5892H6256H2763H4962H802H2945H5892H7604H8300

35"We took only the livestock as plunder for ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we took.H929H962H7998H5892H3920

36"From Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon, and from the city that is in the ravine, as far as Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us; the LORD our God delivered all to us.H6177H8193H5158H769H5892H5158H1568H7151H7682H3068H430H5414H6440

37"Only you did not go near the land of the people of Ammon—anywhere along the River Jabbok, or to the cities of the mountains, or wherever the LORD our God had forbidden us.H776H1121H5983H7126H3027H5158H2999H5892H2022H3068H430H6680