Deuteronomy 2:16

So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed,.... By wasting diseases and judgments of one kind or another:

and dead from among the people; the rising and surviving generation.

It is observable here that Moses, speaking of the Edomites (Deu 2:8), calls them, "our brethren, the children of Esau." Though they had been unkind to Israel, in refusing them a peaceable passage…

Approach to the -Ammonites and Amorites

The adult generation having died out (Deu 2:16), Jehovah charged Moses that, being about to pass the border or cross the territory of Mo'ab (Deu 2:17 f.) and…