Deuteronomy 2 - New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB1995)

Wanderings in the Wilderness

2 “^(A)Then we turned and set out for the wilderness by the way to the ^[a]Red Sea, as the Lord spoke to me, and circled ^(B)Mount Seir for many days. ² And the Lord spoke to me, saying, ³ ‘You have circled this mountain long enough. Now turn north, ^{4 (C)}and command the people, saying, “You will pass through the ^(D)territory of your brothers the sons of Esau who live in Seir; and ^(E)they will be afraid of you. So be very careful; ⁵ do not ^[b]provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, even as little as a ^[c]footstep ^(F)because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession. ⁶ You shall buy food from them with money so that you may eat, and you shall also purchase water from them with money so that you may drink. ⁷ For the Lord your God has blessed you in all ^[d]that you have done; He has known your ^[e]wanderings through this ^(G)great wilderness. These ^(H)forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have not lacked a thing.”’

⁸ “So we passed beyond our brothers the sons of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the ^(I)Arabah road, away from Elath and ^(J)from Ezion-geber. And we turned and passed through by the way of the wilderness of Moab. ⁹ Then the Lord said to me, ‘Do not harass Moab, nor provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of ^[f]their land as a possession, because I have given ^(K)Ar to ^(L)the sons of Lot as a possession.’ ¹⁰ (The ^(M)Emim lived there formerly, a people as great, numerous, and tall as the Anakim. ¹¹ Like the Anakim, they are also regarded as ^(N)Rephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim. ^{12 (O)}The Horites formerly lived in Seir, but the sons of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their place, ^(P)just as Israel did to the land of ^[g]their possession which the Lord gave to them.) ¹³ ‘Now arise and cross over the ^[h]brook Zered yourselves.’ So we crossed over the ^[i]brook Zered. ¹⁴ Now the ^[j]time that it took for us to come from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the ^[k]brook Zered was ^(Q)thirty-eight years, until ^(R)all the generation of the men of war perished from within the camp, as ^(S)the Lord had sworn to them. ^{15 (T)}Moreover the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from within the camp until they all perished.

¹⁶ “So it came about when ^(U)all the men of war had finally perished from among the people, ¹⁷ that the Lord spoke to me, saying, ¹⁸ ‘Today you shall cross over ^(V)Ar, the border of Moab. ¹⁹ When you come opposite the ^(W)sons of Ammon, do not harass them nor provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the sons of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to ^(X)the sons of Lot as a possession.’ ²⁰ (It is also regarded as the land of the ^(Y)Rephaim, for Rephaim formerly lived in it, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummin, ²¹ a people as great, numerous, and tall as the Anakim, but the Lord destroyed them before them. And they dispossessed them and settled in their place, ²² just as He did for the sons of Esau, who ^(Z)live in Seir, when He destroyed ^(AA)the Horites from before them; they dispossessed them and settled in their place even to this day. ²³ And the ^(AB)Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the ^[l](AC)Caphtorim who came from ^[m](AD)Caphtor, destroyed them and lived in their place.) ²⁴ ‘Arise, set out, and pass through the ^[n](AE)valley of Arnon. Look! I have given Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land into your hand; begin to take possession and contend with him in battle. ²⁵ This day I will begin to put ^(AF)the dread and fear of you ^[o]upon the peoples ^[p]everywhere under the heavens, who, when they hear the report of you, ^(AG)will tremble and be in anguish because of you.’

²⁶ “^(AH)So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying, ²⁷ ‘Let me pass through your land, I will ^[q]travel only on the highway; I will not turn aside to the right or to the left. ²⁸ You will sell me food for money so that I may eat, and give me water for money so that I may drink, ^(AI)only let me pass through on ^[r]foot, ²⁹ just as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in ^(AJ)Ar did for me, until I cross over the Jordan into the land which the Lord our God is giving to us.’ ³⁰ But ^(AK)Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass ^[s]through his land; for the ^(AL)Lord your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, in order to deliver him into your hand, as he is today. ³¹ The Lord said to me, ‘See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his land ^[t]over to you. Begin to ^[u]occupy, that you may possess his land.’

³² “Then Sihon ^[v]with all his people came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz. ^{33 (AM)}The Lord our God delivered him ^[w]over to us, and we ^[x](AN)defeated him with his sons and all his people. ³⁴ So we captured all his cities at that time and ^[y](AO)utterly destroyed ^[z]the men, women and children of every city. We left no survivor. ³⁵ We took ^(AP)only the animals as our booty and the spoil of the cities which we had captured. ³⁶ From ^(AQ)Aroer which is on the edge of the ^[aa]valley of Arnon and from the city which is in the ^[ab]valley, even to Gilead, there was no city that was too high for us; the Lord our God delivered all ^[ac]over to us. ^{37 (AR)}Only you did not go near to the land of the sons of Ammon, all along the ^[ad]river ^(AS)Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever the Lord our God had commanded us.

Footnotes

1. Deuteronomy 2:1 Lit Sea of Reeds
2. Deuteronomy 2:5 Or engage in strife with
3. Deuteronomy 2:5 Lit treading of a sole of a foot
4. Deuteronomy 2:7 Lit the work of your hand
5. Deuteronomy 2:7 Lit goings
6. Deuteronomy 2:9 Lit his
7. Deuteronomy 2:12 Lit his
8. Deuteronomy 2:13 Or wadi
9. Deuteronomy 2:13 Or wadi
10. Deuteronomy 2:14 Lit days in which we went
11. Deuteronomy 2:14 Or wadi
12. Deuteronomy 2:23 I.e. Philistines
13. Deuteronomy 2:23 I.e. Crete
14. Deuteronomy 2:24 Or wadi
15. Deuteronomy 2:25 Lit in front of
16. Deuteronomy 2:25 Lit under all the heavens
17. Deuteronomy 2:27 Lit go by the way
18. Deuteronomy 2:28 Lit my feet
19. Deuteronomy 2:30 Lit by him
20. Deuteronomy 2:31 Lit before you
21. Deuteronomy 2:31 Lit possess
22. Deuteronomy 2:32 Lit he and
23. Deuteronomy 2:33 Lit before us
24. Deuteronomy 2:33 Lit smote
25. Deuteronomy 2:34 Or put under the ban
26. Deuteronomy 2:34 Lit every city of man...
27. Deuteronomy 2:36 Or wadi
28. Deuteronomy 2:36 Or wadi
29. Deuteronomy 2:36 Lit before us
30. Deuteronomy 2:37 Or wadi

Cross references

1. Deuteronomy 2:1 : Num 21:4
2. Deuteronomy 2:1 : Deut 1:2
3. Deuteronomy 2:4 : Num 20:14-21
4. Deuteronomy 2:4 : Gen 36:8
5. Deuteronomy 2:4 : Ex 15:15, 16
6. Deuteronomy 2:5 : Gen 36:8; Josh 24:4
7. Deuteronomy 2:7 : Deut 1:19
8. Deuteronomy 2:7 : Num 14:33, 34; 32:13; Deut 2:14
9. Deuteronomy 2:8 : Deut 1:1
10. Deuteronomy 2:8 : Num 33:35; 1 Kin 9:26
11. Deuteronomy 2:9 : Num 21:15, 28; Deut 2:18, 29
12. Deuteronomy 2:9 : Gen 19:36, 37
13. Deuteronomy 2:10 : Gen 14:5
14. Deuteronomy 2:11 : Gen 14:5; Deut 2:20
15. Deuteronomy 2:12 : Gen 36:20; Deut 2:22
16. Deuteronomy 2:12 : Num 21:25, 35
17. Deuteronomy 2:14 : Deut 2:7
18. Deuteronomy 2:14 : Num 14:29-35; 26:64, 65; Ps 106:26; 1 Cor 10:5
19. Deuteronomy 2:14 : Deut 1:34, 35
20. Deuteronomy 2:15 : Jude 5
21. Deuteronomy 2:16 : Deut 2:14
22. Deuteronomy 2:18 : Deut 2:9
23. Deuteronomy 2:19 : Gen 19:38
24. Deuteronomy 2:19 : Deut 2:9
25. Deuteronomy 2:20 : Deut 2:11
26. Deuteronomy 2:22 : Gen 36:8; Deut 2:5
27. Deuteronomy 2:22 : Deut 2:12
28. Deuteronomy 2:23 : Josh 13:3
29. Deuteronomy 2:23 : Gen 10:14; 1 Chr 1:12
30. Deuteronomy 2:23 : Jer 47:4; Amos 9:7
31. Deuteronomy 2:24 : Num 21:13, 14; Judg 11:18
32. Deuteronomy 2:25 : Ex 23:27; Deut 11:25; Josh 2:9
33. Deuteronomy 2:25 : Ex 15:14-16
34. Deuteronomy 2:26 : Num 21:21-32; Deut 1:4; Judg 11:19-21
35. Deuteronomy 2:28 : Num 20:19
36. Deuteronomy 2:29 : Deut 2:9
37. Deuteronomy 2:30 : Num 21:23
38. Deuteronomy 2:30 : Ex 4:21; Josh 11:20
39. Deuteronomy 2:33 : Ex 23:31; Deut 7:2
40. Deuteronomy 2:33 : Deut 29:7
41. Deuteronomy 2:34 : Deut 3:6; 7:2
42. Deuteronomy 2:35 : Deut 3:7
43. Deuteronomy 2:36 : Deut 3:12; 4:48; Josh 12:2; 13:9
44. Deuteronomy 2:37 : Deut 2:19
45. Deuteronomy 2:37 : Gen 32:22; Num 21:24; Deut 3:16