Deuteronomy 2:5

World English Bible (2000)

don't contend with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 24:4 : 4 I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
  • Gen 36:8 : 8 Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.
  • Deut 32:8 : 8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.
  • 2 Chr 20:10-12 : 10 Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and didn't destroy them; 11 behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit. 12 Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us; neither know we what to do, but our eyes are on you."
  • Jer 27:5 : 5 I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me.
  • Dan 4:25 : 25 that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field, and you shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.
  • Dan 4:32 : 32 and you shall be driven from men; and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field; you shall be made to eat grass as oxen; and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.
  • Acts 7:5 : 5 He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child.
  • Acts 17:26 : 26 He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 2:4
    83%

    4 Command the people, saying, 'You are to pass through the border of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take good heed to yourselves therefore;

  • Deut 2:8-9
    2 verses
    79%

    8 So we passed by from our brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

    9 Yahweh said to me, "Don't bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession."

  • Deut 2:27-29
    3 verses
    76%

    27 "Let me pass through your land: I will go along by the highway, I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left.

    28 You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only let me pass through on my feet,

    29 as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us."

  • Deut 2:19
    75%

    19 and when you come near over against the children of Ammon, don't bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession; because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession."

  • Deut 2:12
    75%

    12 The Horites also lived in Seir before, but the children of Esau succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.)

  • Josh 24:4
    75%

    4 I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

  • Num 20:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17 "Please let us pass through your land: we will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go along the king's highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border."

    18 Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you."

  • Ezek 35:7
    72%

    7 Thus will I make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns.

  • Num 20:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20 He said, "You shall not pass through." Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand.

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

  • Num 24:18
    71%

    18 Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemies, also shall be a possession, while Israel does valiantly.

  • Gen 36:7-8
    2 verses
    71%

    7 For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn't bear them because of their livestock.

    8 Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.

  • Deut 2:6
    71%

    6 You shall purchase food of them for money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water of them for money, that you may drink.'"

  • Gen 33:9
    71%

    9 Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours."

  • Deut 2:22
    71%

    22 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:

  • Ezek 35:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2 Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

    3 and tell it, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and an astonishment.

  • Josh 1:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3 I have given you every place that the sole of your foot will tread on, as I told Moses.

    4 From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.

  • Gen 35:12
    70%

    12 The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your seed after you will I give the land."

  • Deut 1:8
    70%

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

  • Ezek 35:15
    70%

    15 As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

  • Deut 19:14
    70%

    14 You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.

  • Obad 1:19
    70%

    19 Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.

  • Jer 17:3
    70%

    3 My mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures for a spoil, [and] your high places, because of sin, throughout all your borders.

  • Deut 9:5
    69%

    5 Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

  • Jer 49:10
    69%

    10 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more.

  • Exod 23:32
    69%

    32 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

  • Acts 7:5
    69%

    5 He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when he still had no child.

  • Gen 33:15
    69%

    15 Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me." He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."

  • Gen 13:17
    69%

    17 Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you."

  • Deut 32:52
    69%

    52 For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel."

  • Gen 14:6
    69%

    6 and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to Elparan, which is by the wilderness.

  • Josh 22:25
    69%

    25 For Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you, you children of Reuben and children of Gad. You have no portion in Yahweh."' So your children might make our children cease from fearing Yahweh.