Deuteronomy 2:34 - Prayer Tents

2we journeyed back into the wilderness, in the direction of the Red Sea, as the LORD had told me and skirted Mount Seir for many days.H6437H5265H4057H1870H5488H3220H3068H1696H5437H2022H8165H7227H31172Then the LORD said to me:H3068H559H5593"You have been skirting this hill country long enough. Head north,H5437H2022H7227H6437H68284and 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 carefulH6680H5971H559H5674H1366H251H1121H6215H3427H8165H3372H3966H81045not 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.H1624H5414H776H7272H4096H3709H5414H2022H8165H6215H34256You 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.H7666H400H3701H398H3739H4325H3701H83547Surely 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."H3068H430H1288H4639H3027H3045H3212H1419H4057H705H8141H3068H430H2637H16978So 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,H5674H251H1121H6215H3427H8165H1870H6160H359H6100H6437H5674H1870H4057H41249the 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."H3068H559H6696H4124H1624H4421H5414H776H3425H5414H6144H1121H3876H342510(The Emim—a large and numerous people, as tall as the Anakim—had formerly inhabited it.H368H3427H6440H5971H1419H7227H7311H606211Like the Anakim, they are usually reckoned as Rephaim, though the Moabites call them Emim.H1992H2803H7497H6062H4125H7121H36812Moreover, 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.)H2752H3427H8165H6440H1121H6215H3423H8045H6440H3427H3478H6213H776H3425H3068H541413"Now then, proceed to cross over the Wadi Zered." So we crossed over the Wadi Zered.H6965H5674H5158H2218H5674H5158H221814And 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.H3117H1980H6947H5674H5158H2218H7970H8083H8141H1755H582H4421H8552H7130H4264H3068H765015Indeed, the LORD's own hand was against them, to root them out from the camp, until all had perished.H3027H3068H2000H7130H4264H855216Just as soon as all the warriors had died off from among the people,H582H4421H8552H4191H7130H597117the LORD spoke to me, saying,H3068H1696H55918"Today you are going to cross the boundary of Moab at Ar.H5674H6144H1366H4124H311719When 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."H7126H4136H1121H5983H6696H1624H5414H776H1121H5983H3425H5414H1121H3876H342520(It also is usually reckoned as a land of Rephaim. Rephaim formerly inhabited it, though the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,H2803H776H7497H7497H3427H6440H5984H7121H215721a strong and numerous people, as tall as the Anakim. But the LORD destroyed them from before the Ammonites so that they could dispossess them and settle in their place.H5971H1419H7227H7311H6062H3068H8045H6440H3423H342722He did the same for the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, by destroying the Horim before them so that they could dispossess them and settle in their place even to this day.H6213H1121H6215H3427H8165H8045H2752H6440H3423H3427H311723As 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.)H5761H3427H2699H5804H3732H3318H3731H8045H342724"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.H6965H5265H5674H5158H769H7200H5414H3027H5511H567H4428H2809H776H2490H3423H1624H442125This 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."H3117H2490H5414H6343H3374H6440H5971H8064H8085H8088H7264H2342H6440

Defeat of King Sihon

26So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to King Sihon of Heshbon with the following terms of peace:H7971H4397H4057H6932H5511H4428H2809H1697H7965H55927"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.H5674H776H3212H1870H1870H5493H3225H804028You 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—H7666H400H3701H398H5414H4325H3701H8354H5674H727229just 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."H1121H6215H3427H8165H4125H3427H6144H6213H5674H3383H776H3068H430H541430But 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.H5511H4428H2809H14H5674H3068H430H7185H7307H3824H553H5414H3027H311731The 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."H3068H559H7200H2490H5414H5511H776H6440H2490H3423H3423H77632So when Sihon came out against us, he and all his people for battle at Jahaz,H5511H3318H7125H5971H4421H309633the LORD our God gave him over to us; and we struck him down, along with his offspring and all his people.H3068H430H5414H6440H5221H1121H597134At that time we captured all his towns, and in each town we utterly destroyed men, women, and children. We left not a single survivor.H3920H5892H6256H2763H4962H802H2945H5892H7604H830035Only the livestock we kept as spoil for ourselves, as well as the plunder of the towns that we had captured.H929H962H7998H5892H392036From 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.H6177H8193H5158H769H5892H5158H1568H7151H7682H3068H430H5414H644037You 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 the LORD our God had charged.H776H1121H5983H7126H3027H5158H2999H5892H2022H3068H430H6680