14. This was 38 years after we had left Kadesh Barnea. All the fighting men of that generation had died, as the Lord had said they would.
15. The Lord kept on opposing them until he had destroyed them all.
16. “After they had all died,
17. the Lord said to us,
18. ‘Today you are to pass through the territory of Moab by way of Ar.
19. You will then be near the land of the Ammonites, the descendants of Lot. Don't trouble them or start a war against them, because I am not going to give you any of the land that I have given them.’ ”
20. (This territory is also known as the land of the Rephaim, the name of the people who used to live there; the Ammonites called them Zamzummim.
21. They were as tall as the Anakim. There were many of them, and they were a mighty race. But the Lord destroyed them, so that the Ammonites took over their land and settled there.
22. The Lord had done the same thing for the Edomites, the descendants of Esau, who live in the hill country of Edom. He destroyed the Horites, so that the Edomites took over their land and settled there, where they still live.
23. The land along the Mediterranean coast had been settled by people from the island of Crete. They had destroyed the Avvim, the original inhabitants, and had taken over all their land as far south as the city of Gaza.)