| 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 many days.
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| 2:2 |
And the LORD spake unto me, saying,
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| 2:3 |
Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you
northward.
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| 2:4 |
And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass
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 unto yourselves therefore:
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| 2:5 |
Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of
their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I
have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.
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| 2:6 |
Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat;
and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye
may drink.
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| 2:7 |
For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the
works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this
great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath
been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
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| 2:8 |
And when we passed by from our brethren the children
of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the
plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and
passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
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| 2:9 |
And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites,
neither contend with them in 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.
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| 2:10 |
The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people
great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
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| 2:11 |
Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but
the Moabites call them Emims.
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| 2:12 |
The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the
children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed
them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as
Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the
LORD gave unto them.
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| 2:13 |
Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered.
And we went over the brook Zered.
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| 2:14 |
And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea,
until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and
eight years; until all the generation of the men of war
were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware
unto them.
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| 2:15 |
For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to
destroy them from among the host, until they were
consumed.
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| 2:16 |
So it came to pass, when all the men of war were
consumed and dead from among the people,
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| 2:17 |
That the LORD spake unto me, saying,
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| 2:18 |
Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab,
this day:
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| 2:19 |
And when thou comest nigh over against the children
of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I
will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon
any possession; because I have given it unto the children
of Lot for a possession.
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| 2:20 |
(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants
dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them
Zamzummims;
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| 2:21 |
A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they
succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:
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| 2:22 |
As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in
Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and
they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto
this day:
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| 2:23 |
And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto
Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor,
destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)
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| 2:24 |
Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the
river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon
the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to
possess it, and contend with him in battle.
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| 2:25 |
This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and
the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the
whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall
tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
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| 2:26 |
And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of
Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace,
saying,
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| 2:27 |
Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the
high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to
the left.
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| 2:28 |
Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat;
and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I
will pass through on my feet;
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| 2:29 |
(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the
Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall
pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God
giveth us.
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| 2:30 |
But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by
him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made
his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy
hand, as appeareth this day.
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| 2:31 |
And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to
give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess,
that thou mayest inherit his land.
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| 2:32 |
Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his
people, to fight at Jahaz.
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| 2:33 |
And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we
smote him, and his sons, and all his people.
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| 2:34 |
And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly
destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of
every city, we left none to remain:
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| 2:35 |
Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves,
and the spoil of the cities which we took.
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| 2:36 |
From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of
Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto
Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the
LORD our God delivered all unto us:
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| 2:37 |
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 forbad us.
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