We turned From our direct road, which lay through Edom. Ar The chief city of the Moabites, here put for the whole country which depended upon it. The children of Lot So called to signify that this preservation was not for their sakes, for they were a wicked people, but for Lot's sake, whose memory God yet honoured.
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Deuteronomy 2:8-9
8 And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
9 And the LORD said unto me, Distressb 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.