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7The Lord has helped us and taken care of us during the past 40 years that we have been in this huge desert. We've had everything we needed, and the Lord has blessed us and made us successful in whatever we have done.
8We went past the territory that belonged to our relatives, the descendants of Esau. We followed Arabah Road that starts in the south at Elath and Ezion-Geber, then we turned onto the desert road that leads to Moab.[#2.8 According to Numbers 20.14-21, the king of Edom did not let the Israelites go through his land.]
9The Lord told me, “Don't try to start a war with Moab. Leave them alone, because I gave the land of Ar to them, and I will not let you have any of it.”[#Gn 19.37.; #2.9 One of the main cities of Moab (see Numbers 21.28); sometimes it may have stood for the whole territory of Moab.; #2.9 The Hebrew text has “the descendants of Lot”; the nation of Moab descended from Moab, who was the son of Lot, the nephew of Abraham.]
10Before the Lord gave the Moabites their land, a large and powerful tribe lived there. They were the Emim, and they were as tall as the Anakim.
11The Moabites called them Emim, though others sometimes used the name Rephaim for both the Anakim and the Emim.[#2.10,11 These may refer to a group or groups of very tall people that lived in or near Palestine before the Israelites (see also Numbers 13.33).]
12The Horites used to live in Seir, but the Edomites took over that region. They killed many of the Horites and forced the rest of them to leave, just as Israel did to the people in the land that the Lord gave them.[#2.12 The Hebrew text has “the descendants of Esau,” who became the nation of Edom.]
13When we came to the Zered Gorge along the southern border of Moab, the Lord told us to cross the gorge into Moab, and we did.
14This was 38 years after we left Kadesh-Barnea, and by that time all the men who had been in the army at Kadesh-Barnea had died, just as the Lord had said they would.[#Nu 14.27-35.]
15-16The Lord kept getting rid of them until finally none of them were left.[#2.15,16 Or “sending diseases on.”]
17Then the Lord told me,
18“Moses, now go past the town of Ar and cross Moab's northern border
19into Ammon. But don't start a war with the Ammonites. I gave them their land, and I won't give any of it to Israel.”[#Gn 19.38.; #2.19 The Hebrew text has “descendants of Lot”; the nation of Ammon descended from Benammi, who was the son of Lot, the nephew of Abraham.]
20Before the Ammonites conquered the land that the Lord had given them, some of the Rephaim used to live there, although the Ammonites called them Zamzummim.
21The Zamzummim were a large and powerful tribe and were as tall as the Anakim. But the Lord helped the Ammonites, and they killed many of the Zamzummim and forced the rest to leave. Then the Ammonites settled there.[#2.21 See the note at 2.10,11.]
22The Lord helped them as he had helped the Edomites, who killed many of the Horites in Seir and forced the rest to leave before settling there themselves.[#2.22 See the note at 2.12.]
23A group called the Avvim used to live in villages as far south as Gaza, but the Philistines killed them and settled on their land.[#2.23 The Hebrew text has “the Caphtorim from Caphtor,” probably referring to the Philistines who originally came from Crete.]
24After we went through Ammon, the Lord told us:
26After we had crossed the Arnon and had set up camp in the Kedemoth Desert, I sent messengers to King Sihon of Heshbon, telling him that his nation and ours could be at peace. I said:
30-31But Sihon refused to let us go across his country, because the Lord made him stubborn and eager to fight us. The Lord told me, “I am going to help you defeat Sihon and take his land, so attack him!”
32We met Sihon and his army in battle at Jahaz,
33and the Lord our God helped us defeat them. We killed Sihon, his sons, and everyone else in his army.
34Then we captured and destroyed every town in Sihon's kingdom, killing everyone,
35but keeping the livestock and everything else of value.
36The Lord helped us capture every town from the Arnon River gorge north to the boundary of Gilead, including the town of Aroer on the edge of the gorge and the town in the middle of the gorge.
37However, we stayed away from all the Ammonite towns, both in the hill country and near the Jabbok River, just as the Lord had commanded.