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Deuteronomy 2:12 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" The Horites also lived in Seir in the past, but the children of Esau succeeded them. They destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place, as Israel did to the land of his possession, which the LORD gave to them.) "

Deuteronomy 2:12

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10 (The Emim lived there before, a great and numerous people, and tall as the Anakim.

11 These also are considered to be Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.

12 The Horites also lived in Seir in the past, but the children of Esau succeeded them. They destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place, as Israel did to the land of his possession, which the LORD gave to them.)

13 “Now rise up and cross over the brook Zered.” We went over the brook Zered.

14 The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea until we had come over the brook Zered were thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the middle of the camp, as the LORD swore to them.

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Related Verses

Genesis 36:8

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"Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom."

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Genesis 36:21

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"Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs who came of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom."

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Numbers 24:18

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"Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemy, also shall be a possession, while Israel does valiantly."

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Deuteronomy 1:44

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"The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you and chased you as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah."

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2 Chronicles 20:10

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"Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned away from them, and didn’t destroy them;"

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Deuteronomy 2:22

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"as he did for the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day."

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From This Chapter

Deuteronomy 2:1

"Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as the LORD spoke to me; and we encircled Mount Seir many days."

Deuteronomy 2:2

"The LORD spoke to me, saying,"

Deuteronomy 2:3

"“You have encircled this mountain long enough. Turn northward."

Deuteronomy 2:4

"Command the people, saying, ‘You are to pass through the border of your brothers, the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Therefore be careful."

Deuteronomy 2:5

"Don’t contend with them; for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession."

Deuteronomy 2:6

"You shall purchase food from them for money, that you may eat. You shall also buy water from them for money, that you may drink.’”"

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