Deuteronomy chapter 2

vs 10

That's important to know. I know it is. I just don't know why. The Anakites, if you forget, are a race of giant scary people.

vs 11

Uh.... yeah... the concept is simple enough. They called them something different, but considered them the same.

vs 12

And this is the point. The point is not about what the Horites, or the Anakites, or the Emites are like. The point is that Horites lived in Seir, and yet the descendents of Esau drove them out. Emites lived in Ar, but the Moabites drove them out. They both did this for the land that God gave them. Now, the mighty Anakite type people who live in the Promised Land need to be driven out. And they will be - because if God helped Esau and Moab to drive out the ones of their land, why wouldn't he help his special people, Israel?

vs 13

Hooray! God said something, and they did it!

vs 14

God killed them off with the plague of time. They made that decision - they could have died young in battle (or at least risked it), but they were too afraid. But now, in crossing the Zered, they were freeing themselves of that generation.

vs 15

I don't know exactly how he showed this - I mean, he still fed them, clothed them, and kept them safe in the desert (well, more or less - there were plagues and snakes and stuff). Perhaps that is all summarised in this verse?

vs 16

We have well and truly established this.

vs 17

So, whoever did the verse markings for Deuteronomy really thought that "The Lord said" was a verse all on its own. This is the second time.

vs 18

And yes, we've covered this. We've spent about nine verses now covering what was really a tangent. We're finally back to where we started.