Deuteronomy 2:16-23 The Lord Destroyed Them

 16Now when all the fighting men among the people had died, 17the LORD said to me, 18“Today you are going to cross the border of Moab at Ar. 19But when you get close to the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the Ammonites. I have given it to the descendants of Lot as their possession.”

20(That too was regarded as the land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummites. 21They were a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites. But the LORD destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place, 22just as He had done for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day. 23And the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, were destroyed by the Caphtorites, who came out of Caphtorband settled in their place.)

“the LORD destroyed them”

Don’t let those four words slip by, let them sink in! Why would the Lord destroy people, a race? Because they didn’t know Him or removed themselves from Him.

He even did it to the Israelites when they brought other gods into their land. The Bible is full of history and we should learn from it!

“As with the Edomites and the Moabites, the land of the Ammonites was also not for the people of Israel.” (Guzik)

Will the Lord do the same to our country?

Blessings