Deuteronomy 2:9-23 - The Land Of Ar

9 "Then the LORD told me, "Don't harass Moab or provoke them to war, because I won't give you any part of their land. I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their property.

10 (The Emites, a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakim, lived there before. 11 Like the Anakim, they were thought of as Rephaim, but the Moabites called them Emites. 12 The Horites used to live in Seir before the descendants of Esau dispossessed them, exterminated them, and settled there instead, just as Israel will do in the land of its possession, which the LORD gave them.)

13 Now get going and cross the Wadi Zered.' And so we crossed the Wadi Zered. 14 Now from the time we left Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Wadi Zered was 38 years. All of that generation, the soldiers in the camp, were destroyed just as the LORD swore they would be. 15 Indeed, the hand of the LORD was against them to root them out from the camp until they were utterly destroyed."

16 "And so all the soldiers among the people died. 17 Then the LORD spoke to me, 18 "Today, you are about to cross the border of Moab at Ar. 19 When you come to the Ammonites, don't harass or provoke them to war, for I won't give any part of Ammonite land to you, since I have given it to the descendants of Lot as their property.

20 ""(Indeed, it was considered Rephaim territory, since the Rephaim used to lived there. The Ammonites called them Zamzummites, 21 a great people, numerous, and tall as the Anakim. But the LORD destroyed the Rephaim, so that the Ammonites dispossessed them and settled there instead. 22 This is what he did for the descendants of Esau who live in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites before them. So they dispossessed them and settled there in their place, where they live to this day. 23 It was the same for the Avvites who lived in villages as far as Gaza. The Caphtorites, who came from Crete, destroyed them and settled there in their place.)


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