Deuteronomy 2:9
7 Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.
8 So we passed by our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned away from the Arabah road, which comes up from Elath and Ezion-geber, and traveled along the road of the Wilderness of Moab.
Then the LORD said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.”
10 (The Emites used to live there, a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites.
11 Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites.
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- BSB
- Then the LORD said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.”
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- The LORD said to me, “Don’t bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you any of his land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.”
- ASV
- And Jehovah said unto me, Vex not Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give thee of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
- DARBY
- And Jehovah said to me, Distress not the Moabites, neither engage with them in battle; for I will not give thee of their land a possession; for unto the children of Lot have I given Ar as a possession.
- BLB
- And YHWH said to me, “Do not harass Moab and do not contend with them in battle, for I will not give to you of their land [as] a possession, because to the sons of Lot I have given Ar [as] a possession.”
- ÅB
- Da sa Herren til meg: Du må ikke angripe moabittene og ikke gi deg i strid med dem; jeg vil ikke gi deg noe av deres land til eiendom, for jeg har gitt Lots barn Ar til eiendom.
- OTB
- Da instruerte Herren meg: "Ikke trakasser Moab eller provoser dem til krig, for jeg vil ikke gi dere noen del av deres land som eiendom, fordi jeg har gitt Ar til etterkommerne av Lot som eiendom."
- B1930
- Da sa Herren til mig: Du må ikke angripe moabittene og ikke gi dig i strid med dem; jeg vil ikke gi dig noget av deres land til eiendom, for jeg har gitt Lots barn Ar til eiendom.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 19:36–37
Thus both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.
Read in contextNumbers 21:15
even the slopes of the wadis that extend to the site of Ar and lie along the border of Moab.”
Read in contextNumbers 21:28
For a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon’s heights.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 2:5
Do not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even a footprint, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as his possession.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 2:29
just as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for us, until we cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD our God is giving us.”
Read in contextPsalms 83:8
Even Assyria has joined them, lending strength to the sons of Lot. Selah
Read in contextNumbers 22:4
So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will devour everything around us, as an ox licks up the grass of the field.” Since Balak son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time,
Read in contextDeuteronomy 2:18–19
“Today you are going to cross the border of Moab at Ar.
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