2:16 So it was that after all the military men had been eliminated from the community, 1 2:17 the Lord said to me, 2:18 “Today you are going to cross the border of Moab, that is, of Ar. 2 2:19 But 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 3 as their possession.
2:20 (That also is considered to be a land of the Rephaites. 4 The Rephaites lived there originally; the Ammonites call them Zamzummites. 5
1 tn Heb “and it was when they were eliminated, all the men of war, to die from the midst of the people.”
2 sn Ar. See note on this word in Deut 2:9.
3 sn Lot’s descendants. See note on this phrase in Deut 2:9.
4 sn Rephaites. See note on this word in Deut 2:11.
5 sn Zamzummites. Just as the Moabites called Rephaites by the name Emites, the Ammonites called them Zamzummites (or Zazites; Gen 14:5).