The utterance stands within the account of God Himself directing the movements of Israel on their journey. It introduces the divine instruction that they were to pass by the territory of Moab and leave it undisturbed. They were not to seize any of that land for themselves. The reason was that God had given that country to the descendants of Lot as their own possession.
The utterance stands within the account of God Himself directing the movements of Israel on their journey. It introduces the divine instruction that they were to pass by the territory of Moab and leave it undisturbed. They were not to seize any of that land for themselves. The reason was that God had given that country to the descendants of Lot as their own possession.