Deuteronomy Chapter 2

Deuteronomy Chapter 2
1 Then we turned, and took our journey
into the wilderness, by the way of the
Red Sea, as the Lord spake unto me: and
we compassed mount Seir a long time.
2 And the Lord spake unto me, saying,
3 Ye have compassed this mountain long
enough: turn you northward. 4 And warn
thou the people, saying, Ye shall go
through the coast of your brethren the
children of Esau, which dwell in Seir,
and they shall be afraid of you: take ye
good heed therefore.
5 Ye shall not provoke them: for I will
not give you of their land so much as a
foot breadth, because I have given mount
Seir unto Esau for a possession. 6 Ye
shall buy meat of them for money to eat,
and ye shall also procure water of them
for money to drink.
7 For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee
in all the works of thine hand: he
knoweth thy walking through this great
wilderness, and the Lord thy God hath
been with thee this forty year, and thou
hast lacked nothing. 8 And when we
were departed from our brethren the
children of Esau which dwelt in Seir,
through the way of the plain, from Elath,
and from Ezion-gaber, we turned and
went by the way of the wilderness of
Moab.
9 Then the Lord said unto me, Thou shalt
not vex Moab, neither provoke them to
battle: for I will not give thee of their
land for a possession, because I have
given Ar unto the children of Lot for a
possession.
10 The Emims dwelt therein in times
past, a people great and many, and tall,
as the Anakims.
11 They also were taken for giants as the
Anakims: whom the Moabites call
Emims.
12 The Horims also dwelt in Seir before
time, whom the children of Esau chased
out and destroyed them before them, and
dwelt in their stead: as Israel shall do
unto the land of his possession, which
the Lord hath given them.
13 Now rise up, said I, and get you over
the river Zered: and we went over the
river Zered.
14 The space also wherein we came
from Kadesh-barnea, until we were
come over the river Zered, was eight and
thirty years, until all the generation of the
men of war were wasted out from among
the host, as the Lord swear unto them.
15 For indeed the hand of the Lord was
against them, to destroy them from
among the host, till they were consumed.
16 So when all the men of war were
consumed and dead from among the
people:
17 Then the Lord spake unto me, saying,
18 Thou shalt go through Ar the coast of
Moab this day:
19 And thou shalt come near over
against the children of Ammon: but shalt
not lay siege unto them, nor move war
against them: for I will not give thee of
the land of the children of Ammon any
possession: for I have given it unto the
children of Lot for a possession.
20 That also was taken for a land of
giants: for giants dwelt therein afore
time, whom the Ammonites called
Zamzummims:
21 A people that was great, and many,
and tall, as the Anakims: but the Lord
destroyed them before them, and they
succeeded them in their inheritance, and
dwelt in their stead:
22 As he did to the children of Esau
which dwell in Seir, when he destroyed
the Horims before them, and they
possessed them, and dwelt in their stead
unto this day.
23 And the Avims which dwelt in
Hazerim even unto Azzah, the
Caphtorims which came out of Caphtor
destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.
24 Rise up therefore, said the Lord:
take your journey, and pass over the
river Arnon: behold, I have given into
thy hand Sihon, the Amorite, king of
Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess
it and provoke him to battle. 25 This day
will I begin to send thy fear and thy
dread, upon all people under the
heavens, which shall hear thy fame, and
shall tremble and quake before thee.
26 Then I sent messengers out of the
wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king
of Heshbon, with words of peace,
saying,
27 Let me pass through thy land: I will
go by the highway: I will neither turn
unto the right hand nor to the left.
28 Thou shalt sell me meat for money,
for to eat, and shalt give me water for
money for to drink: only I will go
through on my foot,
29 (As the children of Esau which dwell
in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in
Ar, did unto me) until I be come over
Jordan, into the land which the Lord our
God giveth us.
30 But Sihon the king of Heshbon would
not let us pass by him: for the Lord thy
God had hardened his spirit, and made
his heart obstinate, because he would
deliver him into thine hand, as
appeareth this day. 31 And the Lord
said unto me, Behold, I have begun to
give Sihon and his land before thee:
begin to possess and inherit his land.
32 Then came out Sihon to meet us,
himself with all his people to fight at
Jahaz.
33 But the Lord our God delivered him
into our power, and we smote him, and
his sons, and all his people.
34 And we took all his cities the same
time, and destroyed every city, men, and
women, and children: we let nothing
remain.
35 Only the cattle we took to ourselves,
and the spoil of the cities which we
took,
36 From Aroer, which is by the bank of
the river of Arnon, and from the city that
is upon the river, even unto Gilead: there
was not one city that escaped us: for the
Lord our God delivered up all before us.
37 Only unto the land of the children of
Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any
place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the
cities in the mountains, nor unto
whatsoever the Lord our God forbade
us.