Deuteronomy 2:8-15 - Journey Past Moab

⁸ And when we were departed from our brethren, the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir by the field way from Elath and Eziongeber, we turned and went the way to the wilderness of Moab. ⁹ Then the LORD said unto me, 'See that thou vex not the Moabites, neither provoke them to battle, for I will not give thee of their land to possess: because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot to possess.'

¹⁰ The Emims dwelt therein in times past; which were a great strong people, and high of stature as the Anakims. ¹¹ Which also were taken for Giants, like as the Anakims: And the Moabites called them Emims. ¹² In like manner the Horites dwelt in Seir, before time: which the children of Esau cast out, and destroyed them before them, and dwelt there in their stead: as Israel did in the land of his possession which the LORD gave them.

¹³ 'Now rise up,' said I, 'and get you over the river Zered.' And we went over the river Zered. ¹⁴ The space in which we came from Kadesh Barnea until we were come over the river Zered was thirty eight years: until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out of the host, as the LORD sware unto them. ¹⁵ For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them out of the host, till they were consumed.