Deuteronomy 2:9
And the Lord said to me, Do not you⌃ 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 Aroer to the children of Lot to inherit.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
10Formerly the Ommin lived in it, a great and numerous nation and powerful, like the Enakim.
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 Esebon, a flame from the city of Seon, and has consumed as far as Moab, and devoured the pillars of Arnon.
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 lived in Seir, and the Moabites who lived in Aroer, 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 you, by your land: and the king of Edom + 11:17 Gr. heard not. complied not: and Israel also sent to the king of Moab, and he did not consent; and Israel sojourned in Cades.
Psalms 83:8O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: listen, O God of Jacob. Pause. 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 →