When you come near the border of the children of Ammon, don’t bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you any of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession, because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Deuteronomy 2:19 in context
Deuteronomy 2:16–22
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So, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
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the LORD spoke to me, saying,
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“You are to pass over Ar, the border of Moab, today.
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When you come near the border of the children of Ammon, don’t bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you any of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession, because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.”
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(That also is considered a land of Rephaim. Rephaim lived there in the past, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,
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a great people, many, and tall, as the Anakim; but the LORD destroyed them from before Israel, and they succeeded them, and lived in their place,
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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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