And commandthou the people, saying, Ye are to passthrough the coast of yourbrethren the children of Esau, whichdwell in Seir; and theyshall be afraid of you: take ye goodheeduntoyourselvestherefore:
For the LORD thy God hathblessedthee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walkingthroughthisgreatwilderness: thesefortyyears the LORD thy God hathbeenwiththee; thouhastlackednothing.
And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, whichdwelt in Seir, through the way of the plainfromElath, and fromEziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
And the LORDsaidunto me, Distress not the Moabites, neithercontendwiththem in battle: for I will not givethee of theirland for a possession; because I havegiven Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
The Horimsalsodwelt in Seirbeforetime; but the children of Esausucceededthem, whenthey had destroyedthemfrombeforethem, and dwelt in theirstead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORDgaveuntothem.
And the space in which we camefromKadeshbarnea, until we werecomeover the brookZered, was thirty and eightyears; until all the generation of the men of war werewasted out fromamong the host, as the LORDswareuntothem.
And whenthoucomestnighoveragainst the children of Ammon, distressthem not, nor meddlewiththem: for I will not givethee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I havegiven it unto the children of Lot for a possession.
As he did to the children of Esau, whichdwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horimsfrombeforethem; and theysucceededthem, and dwelt in theirsteadevenuntothis day:
Rise ye up, takeyourjourney, and passover the riverArnon: behold, I havegivenintothinehandSihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contendwith him in battle.
This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of theeupon the nationsthat are under the wholeheaven, who shallhearreport of thee, and shalltremble, and be in anguishbecause of thee.
(As the children of Esauwhichdwell in Seir, and the Moabiteswhichdwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shallpassoverJordaninto the landwhich the LORD our God giveth us.
But Sihonking of Heshbonwould not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heartobstinate, that he mightdeliver him into thy hand, as appeareththis day.
FromAroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the citythat is by the river, evenuntoGilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us:
Onlyunto the land of the children of Ammonthoucamest not, nor unto any place of the riverJabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor untowhatsoever the LORD our God forbad us.