Deutéronome 2:29-37

29 C'est ce que m'ont accordé les enfants d'Esaü qui habitent en Séir, et les Moabites qui demeurent à Ar. Accorde-le aussi, jusqu'à ce que je passe le Jourdain pour entrer au pays que l'Eternel, notre Dieu, nous donne.

30 Mais Sihon, roi de Hesbon, ne voulut point nous laisser passer chez lui; car l'Eternel, ton Dieu, rendit son esprit inflexible et endurcit son coeur, afin de le livrer entre tes mains, comme tu le vois aujourd'hui.

31 L'Eternel me dit: Vois, je te livre dès maintenant Sihon et son pays.

32 Sihon sortit à notre rencontre, avec tout son peuple, pour nous combattre à Jahats.

33 L'Eternel, notre Dieu, nous le livra, et nous le battîmes, lui et ses fils, et tout son peuple.

34 Nous prîmes alors toutes ses villes, et nous les dévouâmes par interdit, hommes, femmes et petits enfants, sans en laisser échapper un seul.

35 Seulement, nous pillâmes pour nous le bétail et le butin des villes que nous avions prises.

36 Depuis Aroër sur les bords du torrent de l'Arnon, et la ville qui est dans la vallée, jusqu'à Galaad, il n'y eut pas de ville trop forte pour nous: l'Eternel, notre Dieu, nous livra tout.

37 Mais tu n'approchas point du pays des enfants d'Ammon, de tous les bords du torrent de Jabbok, des villes de la montagne, de tous les lieux que l'Eternel, notre Dieu, t'avait défendu d'attaquer.

Deutéronome 2:29-37 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 2

In this chapter Moses goes on with his account of the affairs of the people of Israel, and what befell them, how they turned into the wilderness again; but passes over in silence their travels there, till they came to Mount Self, where having been some time they were bid to depart, De 2:1-3, and were directed not to meddle with the Edomites, or take anything from them, but pay them for what they should have of them, since they lacked not, De 2:4-8, nor to distress the Moabites, of whose country, as formerly inhabited, and also of Edom, some account is given, De 2:9-12, when they were bid to go over the brook Zered, to which from their coming from Kadeshbarnea was the space of thirty eight years, in which time the former generation was consumed, De 2:13-16 and now passing along the borders of Moab, they were ordered not to meddle with nor distress the children of Ammon, of whose land also, and the former inhabitants of it, an account is given, De 2:17-23, then passing over the river Arnon, they are bid to fight with Sihon king of the Amorites, and possess his land, De 2:24,25 to whom they sent messengers, desiring leave to pass through his land, and to furnish them with provisions for their money, as the Edomites and Moabites had done, De 2:26-29 but he refusing, this gave them an opportunity to attack him, in which they succeeded, slew him and his people, and took possession of his country, De 2:30-37.