Deuteronomy 2 – Studienbibel

1 And we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as Jehovah had said unto me; and we went round mount Seir many days.

2 And Jehovah spoke to me, saying,

3 You have gone round this mountain long enough: turn you northward.

4 And command the people, saying, You are to pass through the border of your brethren the children of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you; and you will be very guarded:

5 attack them not; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot-breadth; for I have given mount Seir as a possession unto Esau.

6 You shall buy of them food for money, that you may eat; and water shall you also buy of them for money, that you may drink;

7 for Jehovah ŷour God has blessed ŷou in all the work of ŷour hand. He has known ŷour walking through this great wilderness: these forty years has Jehovah ŷour God been with ŷou; ŷou have lacked nothing.

8 And we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, who lived in Seir, by the plain, by Elath, and by Ezion-geber, and we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

9 And Jehovah said to me, Distress not the Moabites, neither engage with them in battle; for I will not give ŷou of their land a possession; for unto the children of Lot have I given Ar as a possession.

10 (The Emim lived in it in times past, a people great, and many, and tall as the Anakim.

11 They also are reckoned as giants like the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.

12 And in Seir lived the Horites in times past; and the children of Esau dispossessed them, and destroyed them from before them, and lived in their stead; as Israel did to the land of their possession, which Jehovah gave to them.)

13 Now rise up, and pass over the torrent Zered. And we passed over the torrent Zered.

14 Now the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we had come over the torrent Zered, were thirty-eight years; until the whole generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah had sworn unto them.

15 Moreover the hand of Jehovah was against them to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.

16 And it came to pass when all the men of war were consumed, having died off from among the people,

17 that Jehovah spoke to me, saying,

18 Ŷou are to pass this day over the border of Moab, which is Ar,

19 and come near over against the children of Ammon; ŷou shall not distress them nor attack them; for I will not give ŷou of the land of the children of Ammon a possession; for unto the children of Lot have I given it as a possession.

20 (That also is reckoned a land of giants: giants lived in it in time past, and the Ammonites call them Zamzummim;

21 a people great, and many, and tall as the Anakim; and Jehovah destroyed them before them, and they dispossessed them, and lived in their stead;

22 as he did to the children of Esau, who lived in Seir, from before whom he destroyed the Horites; and they dispossessed them, and lived in their stead, even to this day.

23 And the Avvites who lived in the hamlets as far as Gazah—the Caphtorim, who came out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and lived in their stead.)

24 Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon. Behold, I have given into ŷour hand Sihon the king of Heshbon, the Amorite, and his land: begin, take possession, and engage with him in battle.

25 This day will I begin to put the dread of ŷou and the fear of ŷou upon the peoples under the whole heaven; who will hear report of ŷou, and will tremble, and quake because of ŷou.

26 And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon the king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

27 Let me pass through ŷour land: by the highway alone will I go; I will neither turn to the right hand nor to the left.

28 Ŷou shall sell me food for money that I may eat; and ŷou shall give me water for money that I may drink; I will only pass through on my feet,

29 —as the children of Esau who live in Seir, and the Moabites who live in Ar, did to me,—until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which Jehovah our God gives us.

30 But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Jehovah ŷour God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obdurate, that he might give him into ŷour hand, as it is this day.

31 And Jehovah said to me, Behold, I begin to give Sihon and his land before ŷou: begin, take possession, that ŷou may possess his land.

32 And Sihon came out against us for battle, he and all his people, to Jahaz.

33 But Jehovah our God gave him up before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and his whole people.

34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every city, men, and women, and little ones: we let none escape.

35 Only the cattle we took as booty for ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.

36 From Aroer, which is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the ravine even to Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: Jehovah our God delivered all before us.

37 Only ŷou did not approach the land of the children of Ammon, the whole border of the river Jabbok, nor the cities of the mountain, nor to whatever Jehovah our God had forbidden us.