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Deuteronomy 2:9 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" The LORD said to me, “Don’t bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you any of his land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.” "

Deuteronomy 2:9

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7 For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has known your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years, the LORD your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.

8 So we passed by from our brothers, the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

9 The LORD said to me, “Don’t bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you any of his land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.”

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.

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Zephaniah 2:9

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"Therefore, as I live, says the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them."

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Isaiah 16:4

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"Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortionist is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land."

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Jeremiah 48:15

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"Moab is laid waste, and they have gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter,” says the King, whose name is the LORD of Armies."

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Jeremiah 48:42

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"Moab will be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against the LORD."

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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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Isaiah 16:13

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"This is the word that the LORD spoke concerning Moab in time past."

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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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