11. Like the Anakim they were also known as Rephaim; but the Moabites called them Emim.
12. The Horites used to live in Edom, but the descendants of Esau chased them out, destroyed their nation, and settled there themselves, just as the Israelites later chased their enemies out of the land that the Lord gave them.)
13. “Then we crossed the River Zered as the Lord told us to do.
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.