1Then we turned back and headed for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea, as the LORD had instructed me, and for many days we wandered around Mount Seir.

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Numbers 21:4, Numbers 21:4, Numbers 14:25, Deuteronomy 1:40, Numbers 14:25

2At this time the LORD said to me,

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3“You have been wandering around this hill country long enough; turn to the north

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Deuteronomy 1:6, Deuteronomy 1:6, Deuteronomy 2:14, Deuteronomy 2:14, Deuteronomy 2:7

4and command the people: ‘You will pass through the territory of your brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, so you must be very careful.

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Numbers 20:14, Numbers 20:21, Numbers 20:14, Numbers 20:21, Exodus 15:15

5Do not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even a footprint, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as his possession.

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Joshua 24:4, Joshua 24:4, Genesis 36:8, Genesis 36:8, Acts 7:5

6You are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.’”

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Romans 12:17, Numbers 20:19, Deuteronomy 2:28, Deuteronomy 2:29, Matthew 7:12

7Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.

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Nehemiah 9:21, Luke 22:35, Nehemiah 9:21, Luke 22:35, Deuteronomy 8:2

8So we passed by our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned away from the Arabah road, which comes up from Elath and Ezion-geber, and traveled along the road of the Wilderness of Moab.

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1 Kings 9:26, 1 Kings 9:26, 2 Kings 16:6, Judges 11:18, 2 Kings 16:6

9Then the LORD said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.”

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Genesis 19:36, Genesis 19:37, Genesis 19:36, Genesis 19:37, Numbers 21:15

10(The Emites used to live there, a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites.

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Genesis 14:5, Genesis 14:5, Deuteronomy 2:11, Numbers 13:22, Deuteronomy 2:11

11Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites.

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Deuteronomy 9:2, Numbers 13:28, Deuteronomy 1:28, Numbers 13:33, Genesis 14:5

12The Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land that the LORD gave them as their possession.)

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Deuteronomy 2:22, Deuteronomy 2:22, Genesis 14:6, Genesis 14:6, Deuteronomy 2:32

13“Now arise and cross over the Brook of Zered.” So we crossed over the Brook of Zered.

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Numbers 21:12, Numbers 21:12, Numbers 13:23, Numbers 13:23

14The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.

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Numbers 26:64, Numbers 26:65, Numbers 14:28, Numbers 14:35, Numbers 26:64

15Indeed, the LORD’s hand was against them, to eliminate them from the camp, until they had all perished.

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Psalms 106:26, Psalms 106:26, Psalms 90:7, Psalms 90:9, Isaiah 66:14

16Now when all the fighting men among the people had died,

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17the LORD said to me,

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18“Today you are going to cross the border of Moab at Ar.

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Numbers 21:23, Numbers 21:23, Isaiah 15:1, Numbers 21:15, Isaiah 15:1

19But when you get close to the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the Ammonites. I have given it to the descendants of Lot as their possession.”

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Deuteronomy 2:9, Deuteronomy 2:9, Judges 11:13, Judges 11:27, Judges 11:13

20(That too was regarded as the land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.

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Genesis 14:5, Genesis 14:5

21They were a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites. But the LORD destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place,

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Deuteronomy 1:28, Deuteronomy 2:22, Jeremiah 27:7, Jeremiah 27:8, Judges 11:24

22just as He had done for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day.

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Genesis 36:8, Genesis 36:8, Genesis 36:20, Genesis 36:30, Deuteronomy 2:12

23And the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, were destroyed by the Caphtorites, who came out of Caphtor and settled in their place.)

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Genesis 10:14, Joshua 13:3, Genesis 10:14, Joshua 13:3, Amos 9:7

24“Arise, set out, and cross the Arnon Valley. See, I have delivered into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession of it and engage him in battle.

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Judges 11:18, Judges 11:21, Judges 11:18, Judges 11:21, Deuteronomy 2:36

25This very day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon all the nations under heaven. They will hear the reports of you and tremble in anguish because of you.”

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Deuteronomy 11:25, Deuteronomy 11:25, Exodus 15:14, Exodus 15:16, Exodus 15:14

26So from the Wilderness of Kedemoth I sent messengers with an offer of peace to Sihon king of Heshbon, saying,

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Luke 10:10, Luke 10:12, Joshua 13:18, Luke 10:5, Luke 10:6

27“Let us pass through your land; we will stay on the main road. We will not turn to the right or to the left.

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Judges 11:19, Judges 11:19, Numbers 21:21, Numbers 21:23, Deuteronomy 2:6

28You can sell us food to eat and water to drink in exchange for silver. Only let us pass through on foot,

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Numbers 20:19, Numbers 20:19

29just as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for us, until we cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD our God is giving us.”

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Numbers 20:18, Judges 11:17, Judges 11:18, Deuteronomy 23:3, Deuteronomy 23:4

30But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as is the case this day.

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Numbers 21:23, Numbers 21:23, Exodus 4:21, Exodus 4:21, Joshua 11:19

31Then the LORD said to me, “See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his land over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land.”

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Deuteronomy 1:8, Deuteronomy 1:8, Deuteronomy 2:24, Deuteronomy 2:24

32So Sihon and his whole army came out for battle against us at Jahaz.

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Numbers 21:23, Numbers 21:30, Numbers 21:23, Numbers 21:30, Psalms 136:19

33And the LORD our God delivered him over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and his whole army.

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Deuteronomy 7:2, Deuteronomy 7:2, Joshua 21:44, Joshua 21:44, Judges 7:2

34At that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors.

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Deuteronomy 7:2, 1 Samuel 15:3, Deuteronomy 7:2, 1 Samuel 15:3, Deuteronomy 3:6

35We carried off for ourselves only the livestock and the plunder from the cities we captured.

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Numbers 31:9, Numbers 31:11, Deuteronomy 20:14, Joshua 8:27, Numbers 31:9

36From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.

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Joshua 13:9, Joshua 13:9, Deuteronomy 3:12, Deuteronomy 4:48, Deuteronomy 3:12

37But you did not go near the land of the Ammonites, or the land along the banks of the Jabbok River, or the cities of the hill country, or any place that the LORD our God had forbidden.

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Genesis 32:22, Deuteronomy 3:16, Numbers 21:24, Genesis 32:22, Deuteronomy 3:16