Deuteronomy 2:9
And the Lord said to me, Do not ye quarrel with the Moabites, and do not engage in war with them; for I will not give you of their land for an inheritance, for I have given Ar to the children of Lot to inherit.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
10Formerly the Emim dwelt in it, a great and numerous nation and powerful, like the Anakim.
Cross References
Genesis 19:37And the elder bore a son, and called his name Moab, saying, He is of my father. This is the father of the Moabites to this present day.
Numbers 21:28For a fire has gone forth from Heshbon, 1 A flame from the city of Sihon, 1 And has consumed as far as Moab, 1 And devoured the pillars of Arnon. 1
Deuteronomy 2:5Do not engage in war against them, for I will not give you of their land even enough to set your foot upon, for I have given Mount Seir to the children of Esau as an inheritance.
Deuteronomy 2:29as the sons of Esau did to me, who dwelt in Seir, and the Moabites who dwelt in Ar, until I shall have passed Jordan into the land which the Lord our God gives us.
Judges 11:17And Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, I will pass, if it please thee, by thy land: and the king of Edom complied not: and Israel also sent to the king of Moab, and he did not consent; and Israel sojourned in Kadesh.
Psalms 83:8They shall go from strength to strength: 1 The God of gods shall be seen in Zion. 1
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 2:9-24
8 And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. 9 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. 10 The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;… Read the whole commentary →