Deuteronomy 2:19
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What does Deuteronomy 2:19 mean?
And when thou comest nigh over against the children of
Ammon,
&c.] Who dwelt near the Moabites, and were brethren, both
descending from Lot, ( Genesis
19:37 Genesis
19:38 )
distress them not, nor meddle with them:
lay no siege to any of their cities, nor provoke them to war, nor
engage in battle with them:
for I will not give thee of the land of the children of
Ammon any
possession;
that is, any part of it which was now in their hands; otherwise
half their land was given to the tribe of Gad; but then that was
what Sihon king of the Amorites had taken from them, and which
Israel retook from him, and so possessed it not as the land of
the Ammonites, but of the Amorites, one of the seven nations,
whose land they were to inherit; see ( Joshua 13:25
) ( Judges
11:13-23 ) ,
because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a
possession;
the Ammonites were the children of Lot by his second daughter, (
Genesis
19:38 ) .
