Deuteronomy 2:9

Deuteronomy 2:9 says, And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.  The people of Israel were to not to disturb the people of Moab, because God had given the land to Lot for a possession.  God did not go back on His word even all those years later, and He still won't now.  Verse ten adds, The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;  Verse eleven continues, Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.  This meant terrible ones, accqording to Matthew Henry.  Moses said that the Emims had dwelt in the land before, and they were considered giants.  Matthew Henry also says they may have been as tall as the Anakims, but even more fierce.  Though they may have been giants to the people of Lot, they weren't to God.  If we see giants before us today, we need to turn them over to God.  Verse twelve concludes, The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.  Moses said that the Horims had dwelt there until the children of Esau destroyed them because God had given them the land, just as He had given a land to Israel.  Verse thirteen states, Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.  Moses said God commanded the people to cross over the brook of Zered, and they obeyed Him.  When God gives us a command, we need to obey Him.  Verse fourteen adds, And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.  Moses said they had been traveling thirty-eight years since they were at Kadeshbarnea until they crossed over the brook of Zered, during which time all those men over twenty had died.  God had said that due to their lack of faith when they first reached the Promised Land that none of adults would enter in.  Again, as He always has and always will, God fulfilled His promise.  Verse fifteen continues, For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.  Moses said that since the hand of the LORD was against them they were destroyed.  They were called God's chosen people, but without faith, they were no better than anyone else.  We may call ourselves Christians, but without putting our faith in JesusChrist, we are doomed to destruction.