Deuteronomy 2:9-23 - The Land Of Ar

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.

16 And as soon as 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 shalt come nigh unto the children of Ammon: see that thou vex them not, nor yet provoke them. For I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon to possess; because I have given it unto the children of Lot to possess.'

20 That also was taken for a land of Giants - and Giants dwelt therein in old time, and the Ammonites called them Zamzummims: 21 a people that was great, many and tall, as the Anakims. But the LORD destroyed them before the Ammonites, and they cast them out and they dwelt there in their stead: 22 as he did for the children of Esau which dwell in Seir; even as he destroyed the Horites before them, and they cast them out and dwell in their stead unto this day. 23 And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim even unto Gaza, the Caphthorims which came out of Caphthor destroyed them and dwelt in their rooms.


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