Deuteronomy 2:9
Context2:9 Then 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 1 to the descendants of Lot 2 as their possession.
Deuteronomy 4:5
Context4:5 Look! I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the Lord my God told me to do, so that you might carry them out in 3 the land you are about to enter and possess.
Deuteronomy 24:15
Context24:15 You must pay his wage that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor and his life depends on it. Otherwise he will cry out to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
Deuteronomy 31:2
Context31:2 He said to them, “Today I am a hundred and twenty years old. I am no longer able to get about, 4 and the Lord has said to me, ‘You will not cross the Jordan.’
1 sn Ar was a Moabite city on the Arnon River east of the Dead Sea. It is mentioned elsewhere in the “Book of the Wars of Yahweh” (Num 21:15; cf. 21:28; Isa 15:1). Here it is synonymous with the whole land of Moab.
2 sn The descendants of Lot. Following the destruction of the cities of the plain, Sodom and Gomorrah, as God’s judgment, Lot fathered two sons by his two daughters, namely, Moab and Ammon (Gen 19:30-38). Thus, these descendants of Lot in and around Ar were the Moabites.
3 tn Heb “in the midst of” (so ASV).
4 tn Or “am no longer able to lead you” (NIV, NLT); Heb “am no longer able to go out and come in.”