Deuteronomy 2:9
Then 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.”
And the Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
Note Distress…: or, Use no hostility against Moab
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.”
And Jehovah said unto me, Vex not Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give thee of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Distress not the Moabites
- or, Use no hostility againstMoab.
- Numbers 22:4; Judges 11:17; 2 Chronicles 20:10
- Ar
- Ar was situated south of the Arnon; and was called by the Greek writers Areopolis, and thought by them to be so named because the inhabitants worshipped [Ares,] or Mars. St. Jerome says that it was destroyed by an earthquake when he was an infant. Burckhardt supposes that the ruins of a small castle called Mehatet el Hadj, may be the site of this ancient city.
- Deuteronomy 2:5; Numbers 21:15, 28
- the children
- Deuteronomy 2:19; Genesis 19:36, 37; Psalm 83:8