Deuteronomy 2:5

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Do not be hostile toward them, because I am not giving you any of their land, not even a footprint, for I have given Mount Seir as an inheritance for Esau.

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  • Josh 24:4 : 4 and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I assigned Mount Seir, while Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.
  • Gen 36:8 : 8 So Esau(also known as Edom) lived in the hill country of Seir.
  • Deut 32:8 : 8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided up humankind, he set the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the heavenly assembly.
  • 2 Chr 20:10-12 : 10 Now the Ammonites, Moabites, and men from Mount Seir are coming! When Israel came from the land of Egypt, you did not allow them to invade these lands. They bypassed them and did not destroy them. 11 Look how they are repaying us! They come to drive us out of our allotted land which you assigned to us! 12 Our God, will you not judge them? For we are powerless against this huge army that attacks us! We don’t know what we should do; we look to you for help.”
  • Jer 27:5 : 5 “I made the earth and the people and animals on it by my mighty power and great strength, and I give it to whomever I see fit.
  • Dan 4:25 : 25 You will be driven from human society, and you will live with the wild animals. You will be fed grass like oxen, and you will become damp with the dew of the sky. Seven periods of time will pass by for you, before you understand that the Most High is ruler over human kingdoms and gives them to whomever he wishes.
  • Dan 4:32 : 32 You will be driven from human society, and you will live with the wild animals. You will be fed grass like oxen, and seven periods of time will pass by for you before you understand that the Most High is ruler over human kingdoms and gives them to whomever he wishes.”
  • Acts 7:5 : 5 He did not give any of it to him for an inheritance, not even a foot of ground, yet God promised to give it to him as his possession, and to his descendants after him, even though Abraham as yet had no child.
  • Acts 17:26 : 26 From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 2:4
    83%

    4Instruct these people as follows:‘You are about to cross the border of your relatives the descendants of Esau, who inhabit Seir. They will be afraid of you, so watch yourselves carefully.

  • Deut 2:8-9
    2 verses
    79%

    8So we turned away from our relatives the descendants of Esau, the inhabitants of Seir, turning from the route of the rift valley which comes up from Elat and Ezion Geber, and traveling the way of the wilderness of Moab.

    9Then the LORD said to me,“Do not harass Moab and provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land as your territory. This is because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.

  • Deut 2:27-29
    3 verses
    76%

    27“Let me pass through your land; I will keep strictly to the roadway. I will not turn aside to the right or the left.

    28Sell me food for cash so that I can eat and sell me water to drink. Just allow me to go through on foot,

    29just as the descendants of Esau who live at Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan to the land the LORD our God is giving us.”

  • Deut 2:19
    75%

    19But when you come close to the Ammonites, do not harass or provoke them because I am not giving you any of the Ammonites’ land as your possession; I have already given it to Lot’s descendants as their possession.”

  • Deut 2:12
    75%

    12Previously the Horites lived in Seir but the descendants of Esau dispossessed and destroyed them and settled in their place, just as Israel did to the land it came to possess, the land the LORD gave them.)

  • Josh 24:4
    75%

    4and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I assigned Mount Seir, while Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.

  • Num 20:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17Please let us pass through your country. We will not pass through the fields or through the vineyards, nor will we drink water from any well. We will go by the King’s Highway; we will not turn to the right or the left until we have passed through your region.’”

    18But Edom said to him,“You will not pass through me, or I will come out against you with the sword.”

  • Ezek 35:7
    72%

    7I will turn Mount Seir into a desolate ruin; I will cut off from it the one who passes through or returns.

  • Num 20:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20But he said,“You may not pass through.” Then Edom came out against them with a large and powerful force.

    21So Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border; therefore Israel turned away from him.

  • Num 24:18
    71%

    18Edom will be a possession, Seir, his enemies, will also be a possession; but Israel will act valiantly.

  • Gen 36:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7because they had too many possessions to be able to stay together and the land where they had settled was not able to support them because of their livestock.

    8So Esau(also known as Edom) lived in the hill country of Seir.

  • Deut 2:6
    71%

    6You may purchase food to eat and water to drink from them.

  • Gen 33:9
    71%

    9But Esau said,“I have plenty, my brother. Keep what belongs to you.”

  • Deut 2:22
    71%

    22This is exactly what he did for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir when he destroyed the Horites before them so that they could dispossess them and settle in their area to this very day.

  • Ezek 35:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2“Son of man, turn toward Mount Seir, and prophesy against it.

    3Say to it,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘Look, I am against you, Mount Seir; I will stretch out my hand against you and turn you into a desolate ruin.

  • Josh 1:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3I am handing over to you every place you set foot, as I promised Moses.

    4Your territory will extend from the desert in the south to Lebanon in the north. It will extend all the way to the great River Euphrates in the east(including all of Syria) and all the way to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.

  • Gen 35:12
    70%

    12The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you. To your descendants I will also give this land.”

  • Deut 1:8
    70%

    8Look! I have already given the land to you. Go, occupy the territory that I, the LORD, promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants.”

  • Ezek 35:15
    70%

    15As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so will I deal with you– you will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all of Edom– all of it! Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”

  • Deut 19:14
    70%

    14Laws Concerning Witnesses You must not encroach on your neighbor’s property, which will have been defined in the inheritance you will obtain in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

  • Obad 1:19
    70%

    19The people of the Negev will take possession of Esau’s mountain, and the people of the foothills will take possession of the land of the Philistines. They will also take possession of the territory of Ephraim and the territory of Samaria, and the people of Benjamin will take possession of Gilead.

  • Jer 17:3
    70%

    3and on the mountains and in the fields. I will give your wealth and all your treasures away as plunder. I will give it away as the price for the sins you have committed throughout your land.

  • Deut 9:5
    69%

    5It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness, that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  • Jer 49:10
    69%

    10But I will strip everything away from Esau’s descendants. I will uncover their hiding places so they cannot hide. Their children, relatives, and neighbors will all be destroyed. Not one of them will be left!

  • Exod 23:32
    69%

    32“You must make no covenant with them or with their gods.

  • Acts 7:5
    69%

    5He did not give any of it to him for an inheritance, not even a foot of ground, yet God promised to give it to him as his possession, and to his descendants after him, even though Abraham as yet had no child.

  • Gen 33:15
    69%

    15So Esau said,“Let me leave some of my men with you.”“Why do that?” Jacob replied.“My lord has already been kind enough to me.”

  • Gen 13:17
    69%

    17Get up and walk throughout the land, for I will give it to you.”

  • Deut 32:52
    69%

    52You will see the land before you, but you will not enter the land that I am giving to the Israelites.”

  • Gen 14:6
    69%

    6and the Horites in their hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is near the desert.

  • Josh 22:25
    69%

    25The LORD made the Jordan a boundary between us and you Reubenites and Gadites. You have no right to worship the LORD.’ In this way your descendants might cause our descendants to stop obeying the LORD.