Deuteronomy 2:4

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:

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  • Num 20:14-21 : 14 And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us: 15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers: 16 And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border: 17 Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders. 18 And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword. 19 And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing any thing else, go through on my feet. 20 And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand. 21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
  • Exod 15:15 : 15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
  • Deut 23:7 : 7 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.
  • Obad 1:10-13 : 10 For thy violence against thy brother Jac shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever. 11 In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them. 12 But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress. 13 Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;
  • Matt 5:16 : 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
  • Luke 12:15 : 15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
  • Eph 5:15 : 15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
  • Phil 2:15 : 15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
  • Col 4:5 : 5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
  • Num 22:3-4 : 3 And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel. 4 And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.
  • Num 24:14-18 : 14 And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days. 15 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said: 16 He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open: 17 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth. 18 And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly.

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  • Deut 2:5
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    5Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.

  • Deut 2:8-9
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    8And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilrness of Moab.

    9And 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.

  • Deut 2:29
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    29(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.

  • Deut 2:1-3
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    1Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilrness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.

    2And the LORD spake unto me, saying,

    3Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.

  • Gen 32:17-19
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    17And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?

    18Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.

    19And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.

  • Num 20:17-18
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    17Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.

    18And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword.

  • Deut 2:12
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    12The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeed them, when they had stroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.

  • Gen 33:14-15
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    74%

    14Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.

    15And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.

  • Deut 1:29
    73%

    29Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.

  • Deut 2:22
    73%

    22As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he stroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeed them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day:

  • Deut 3:18
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    18And I command you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.

  • Josh 24:4
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    4And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

  • Deut 1:7-8
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    7Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea si, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.

    8Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.

  • Gen 32:8
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    8And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.

  • Exod 34:12
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    12Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:

  • Num 20:20-21
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    20And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.

    21Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.

  • Gen 32:3
    72%

    3And Jacob sent messenrs before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

  • Deut 1:40
    72%

    40But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilrness by the way of the Red sea.

  • Deut 2:18
    72%

    18Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:

  • Gen 36:8
    72%

    8Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.

  • Gen 14:6
    71%

    6And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness.

  • Judg 11:17
    71%

    17Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh.

  • Ezek 35:2
    71%

    2Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,