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6 You shall buy food from them with money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water from them with money, that you may drink.
7 “For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He knows your1 trudging through this great wilderness. aThese forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.” ’  
8 “And when we passed beyond our brethren, the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir, away from the road of the plain, away from aElath and Ezion Geber, we bturned and passed by way of the Wilderness of Moab.  
9 Then the Lord said to me, ‘Do not harass Moab, nor contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession, because I have given aAr to bthe descendants of Lot as a possession.’ ”  
10 a(The Emim had dwelt there in times past, a people as great and numerous and tall as bthe Anakim.  
11 They were also regarded as1 giants, like the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim.  
12 aThe Horites formerly dwelt in Seir, but the descendants of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their1 place, just as Israel did to the land of their possession which the Lord gave them.)  
13 “ ‘Now rise and cross over athe Valley of the Zered.’ So we crossed over the Valley of the Zered.  
14 And the time we took to come afrom Kadesh Barnea until we crossed over the Valley of the Zered was thirty-eight years, buntil all the generation of the men of war1 was consumed from the midst of the camp, cjust as the Lord had sworn to them.  
15 For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp until they1 were consumed.  
16 “So it was, when all the men of war had finally perished from among the people,
17 that the Lord spoke to me, saying:
18 ‘This day you are to cross over at Ar, the boundary of Moab.
19 And when you come near the people of Ammon, do not harass them or meddle with them, for I will not give you any of the land of the people of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to athe descendants of Lot as a possession.’ ”  
20 (That was also regarded as a land of1 giants; giants formerly dwelt there. But the Ammonites call them aZamzummim,  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Deuteronomy 2:8-18

we passed . . . through the way of the plain—the Arabah or great valley, from Elath ("trees") (the Ailah of the Greeks and Romans). The site of it is marked by extensive mounds of rubbish.

Ezion-geber—now Akaba, both were within the territory of Edom; and after making a circuit of its southeastern boundary, the Israelites reached the border of Moab on the southeast of the Salt Sea. They had been forbidden by divine command to molest the Moabites in any way; and this special honor was conferred on that people not on their own account, for they were very wicked, but in virtue of their descent from Lot. (See on Deuteronomy 23:3). Their territory comprised the fine country on the south, and partly on the north of the Arnon. They had won it by their arms from the original inhabitants, the Emims, a race, terrible, as their name imports, for physical power and stature (Genesis 14:5), in like manner as the Edomites had obtained their settlement by the overthrow of the original occupiers of Seir, the Horims (Genesis 14:6), who were troglodytes, or dwellers in caves. Moses alluded to these circumstances to encourage his countrymen to believe that God would much more enable them to expel the wicked and accursed Canaanites. At that time, however, the Moabites, having lost the greater part of their possessions through the usurpations of Sihon, were reduced to the small but fertile region between the Zered and the Arnon.




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