1 Nu 21.4we finally turned and went into the desert, on the road to the Gulf of Aqaba, as the Lordhad commanded, and we spent a long time wandering about in the hill country of Edom.
2 "Then the Lordtold me 3 that we had spent enough time wandering about in those hills and that we should go north. 4 Gn 36.8He told me to give you the following instructions: ‘You are about to go through the hill country of Edom, the territory of your distant relatives, the descendants of Esau. They will be afraid of you, 5 but you must not start a war with them, because I am not going to give you so much as a square foot of their land. I have given Edomto Esau’s descendants. 6 You may buy food and water from them.’
7 "Remember how the Lordyour God has blessed you in everything that you have done. He has taken care of you as you wandered through this vast desert. He has been with you these forty years, and you have had everything you needed.
8 "So we moved on and left the road that goes from the towns of Elathand Eziongeber to the Dead Sea, and we turned northeast toward Moab. 9 Gn 19.37The Lordsaid to me, ‘Don’t trouble the people of Moab, the descendants of Lot, or start a war against them. I have given them the city of Ar, and I am not going to give you any of their land.’"
( 10 A mighty race of giants called the Emim used to live in Ar. They were as tall as the Anakim, another race of giants. 11 Like the Anakim they were also known as Rephaim; but the Moabites called them Emim. 12 The Horites used to live in Edom, but the descendants of Esauchased them out, destroyed their nation, and settled there themselves, just as the Israelites later chased their enemies out of the land that the Lordgave them.)
13 "Then we crossed the ZeredRiver as the Lordtold us to do. 14 Nu 14.28-35This was thirty-eight years after we had left Kadesh Barnea. All the fighting men of that generation had died, as the Lordhad said they would. 15 The Lordkept on opposing them until he had destroyed them all.
16 "After they had all died, 17 the Lordsaid to us, 18 ‘Today you are to pass through the territory of Moabby way of Ar. 19 Gn 19.38You will then be near the land of the Ammonites, the descendants of Lot. Don’t trouble them or start a war against them, because I am not going to give you any of the land that I have given them.’"
( 20 This territory is also known as the land of the Rephaim, the name of the people who used to live there; the Ammonites called them Zamzummim. 21 They were as tall as the Anakim. There were many of them, and they were a mighty race. But the Lorddestroyed them, so that the Ammonites took over their land and settled there. 22 The Lordhad done the same thing for the Edomites, the descendants of Esau, who live in the hill country of Edom. He destroyed the Horites, so that the Edomites took over their land and settled there, where they still live. 23 The land along the Mediterranean coast had been settled by people from the island of Crete. They had destroyed the Avvim, the original inhabitants, and had taken over all their land as far south as the city of Gaza.)
24 "After we had passed through Moab, the Lordtold us, ‘Now, start out and cross the ArnonRiver. I am placing in your power Sihon, the Amorite king of Heshbon, along with his land. Attack him, and begin occupying his land. 25 From today on I will make people everywhere afraid of you. Everyone will tremble with fear at the mention of your name.’
26 "Then I sent messengers from the desert of Kedemothto King Sihonof Heshbonwith the following offer of peace: 27 ‘Let us pass through your country. We will go straight through and not leave the road. 28 We will pay for the food we eat and the water we drink. All we want to do is to pass through your country, 29 until we cross the Jordan Riverinto the land that the Lordour God is giving us. The descendants of Esau, who live in Edom, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, allowed us to pass through their territory.’
30 "But King Sihonwould not let us pass through his country. The Lordyour God had made him stubborn and rebellious, so that we could defeat him and take his territory, which we still occupy.
31 "Then the Lordsaid to me, ‘Look, I have made King Sihon and his land helpless before you; take his land and occupy it.’ 32 Sihoncame out with all his men to fight us near the town of Jahaz, 33 but the Lordour God put him in our power, and we killed him, his sons, and all his men. 34 At the same time we captured and destroyed every town, and put everyone to death, men, women, and children. We left no survivors. 35 We took the livestock and plundered the towns. 36 The Lordour God let us capture all the towns from Aroer, on the edge of the ArnonValley, and the city in the middle of that valley, all the way to Gilead. No town had walls too strong for us. 37 But we did not go near the territory of the Ammonitesor to the banks of the Jabbok Riveror to the towns of the hill country or to any other place where the Lordour God had commanded us not to go.
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Esau
עֵשָֽׂוesauΗσαυĒsau
Esau, son of Isaac and twin of Jacob, sold his birthright to his brother for a meal and was the father of the Edomites (Genesis 25:30).
Elath is a city in the land of Edom, near Ezion-geber, rebuilt for Judah and later recovered for Aram by Rezin king of Aram, who drove out the men of Judah (2 Kings 16:6).
Moab is a land ruled by kings, such as Eglon and Balak, where David asked the king to shelter his parents; fire and punishment are proclaimed against it (Amos 2:2).
Moab is a land ruled by kings, such as Eglon and Balak, where David asked the king to shelter his parents; fire and punishment are proclaimed against it (Amos 2:2).
Lot, Abraham’s nephew, went to live in Sodom and escaped the city’s destruction with his two daughters; his wife looked back and became a pillar of salt (Genesis 19:29).
Moab is a land ruled by kings, such as Eglon and Balak, where David asked the king to shelter his parents; fire and punishment are proclaimed against it (Amos 2:2).
Ammon is the land of the Ammonites, descendants of Ben-Ammi, with Rabbah as its capital. The Ammonites fought against Israel in the days of Jephthah, and Joab laid waste their land while David remained in Jerusalem (1 Chronicles 20:1).
Lot, Abraham’s nephew, went to live in Sodom and escaped the city’s destruction with his two daughters; his wife looked back and became a pillar of salt (Genesis 19:29).
Gaza was a city of the Philistines, where the people surrounded Samson and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate to kill him at dawn (Judges 16:2).
The Valley of the Arnon is the valley whose middle was the border of the region Israel took from the Amorites and gave to the tribes of Reuben and Gad; Aroer stood on its rim (Deuteronomy 3:16).
The Jordan is the river in the middle of which Joshua set up twelve stones, where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant had stood. The boundary of the land went down along the river to the Salt Sea (Joshua 4:9).
Jahaz is the place where Sihon fought against Israel after refusing to let Israel pass through his territory. It was also a city of the tribe of Reuben, beside Bezer (Numbers 21:23).
Aroer was a city by the Arnon River, where the territory given to the tribes of Reuben and Gad began, extending to half the hill country of Gilead, with its towns (Deuteronomy 3:12).
The Valley of the Arnon is the valley whose middle was the border of the region Israel took from the Amorites and gave to the tribes of Reuben and Gad; Aroer stood on its rim (Deuteronomy 3:16).
Gilead is the land Moses gave to Machir of Manasseh and where Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had their own land. Jair, who led Israel, and Elijah came from there (Numbers 32:40).
Ammon is the land of the Ammonites, descendants of Ben-Ammi, with Rabbah as its capital. The Ammonites fought against Israel in the days of Jephthah, and Joab laid waste their land while David remained in Jerusalem (1 Chronicles 20:1).
The Jabbok is a river whose ford Jacob crossed at night with his two wives, two female servants, and eleven sons. It was the border of the Ammonites, and Israel took over the land from the Arnon to the Jabbok (Numbers 21:24).