Deuteronomy 2:37 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁷ You did not encroach, however, on the land of the Ammonites, avoiding the whole upper region of the Wadi Jabbok as well as the towns of the hill country, just as the Lord our God had charged.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁷ only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁷ Only you did not go near the land of the Ammonites, that is, to any bank of the river Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever the Lord our God had forbidden us.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁷ only to the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not near; all the side of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill-country, and wheresoever Jehovah our God forbade us.

Common English Bible

³⁷ But you didn’t go near the Ammonite lands or hillside cities alongside the Jabbok River, in compliance with all that the LORD our God had commanded.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁷ except the land of the sons of Ammon, which we did not approach, and all that is adjacent to the torrent Jabbok, and the cities in the mountains, and all the places which the Lord our God prohibited to us."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁷ Except the land of the children of Ammon, to which we approached not: and all that border upon the torrent Jeboc: and the cities in the mountains: and all the places which the Lord our God forbade us.

Deuteronomy 2:37 Cross References

Genesis 32:22

The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

Numbers 21:24

Israel put him to the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as to the Ammonites, for the boundary of the Ammonites was strong.

Deuteronomy 2:19

When you approach the frontier of the Ammonites, do not harass them or engage them in battle, for I will not give the land of the Ammonites to you as a possession, because I have given it to the descendants of Lot.’

Deuteronomy 2:5

not to engage in battle with them, for I will not give you even so much as a foot’s length of their land, since I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.

Deuteronomy 2:9

the Lord said to me, ‘Do not harass Moab or engage them in battle, for I will not give you any of its land as a possession, since I have given Ar as a possession to the descendants of Lot.’

Deuteronomy 3:16

And to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the Wadi Arnon, with the middle of the wadi as a boundary, and up to the Jabbok, the wadi being boundary of the Ammonites;

Joshua 12:2

King Sihon of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, and from the middle of the valley as far as the Wadi Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites, that is, half of Gilead,

Judges 11:15

and said to him, “Thus says Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites,

Judges 11:22

They occupied all the territory of the Amorites from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.