Deuteronomy 2 in the early church

9 passages quote, allude to, or echo Deuteronomy 2, grouped by verse; passages on the same verse are in date order. Verse text from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). References use the Protestant English Bible's numbering, with a writer's own numbering in brackets where it differs.

Verses: 4 · 9 · 19 · 21 · 22 · 27 · 30 · 33 · 34

Deuteronomy 2:4

and command the people: ‘You will pass through the territory of your brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, so you must be very careful.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 2:4–6	Demonstration 11.9 · Aphrahat	quotation, high confidence	337-345

Deuteronomy 2:9

Then the LORD said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.”
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 2:9	Against Faustus the Manichaean 22.60 · Augustine of Hippo	allusion, high confidence	ca. 398–400

Deuteronomy 2:19

But when you get close to the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the Ammonites. I have given it to the descendants of Lot as their possession.”
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 2:19	Arabic Pentateuch fragment XXI · Hippolytus of Rome	allusion, high confidence	unknown (transmitted in a medieval Arabic catena)

Deuteronomy 2:21

They were a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites. But the LORD destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place,
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 2:21	Arabic Pentateuch fragment XXI · Hippolytus of Rome	allusion, medium confidence	unknown (transmitted in a medieval Arabic catena)

Deuteronomy 2:22

just as He had done for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 2:22	Arabic Pentateuch fragment XXI · Hippolytus of Rome	allusion, medium confidence	unknown (transmitted in a medieval Arabic catena)

Deuteronomy 2:27

“Let us pass through your land; we will stay on the main road. We will not turn to the right or to the left.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 2:27	Panarion (Adversus Haereses), Haer. 1-64 59.12.7 · Epiphanius of Salamis	allusion, medium confidence	374-377

Deuteronomy 2:30

But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as is the case this day.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 2:30	Commentary on John 32.221 · Origen	quotation, high confidence	ca. 230–248

Deuteronomy 2:33

And the LORD our God delivered him over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and his whole army.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 2:33	Arabic Pentateuch fragment XXI · Hippolytus of Rome	allusion, high confidence	unknown (transmitted in a medieval Arabic catena)

Deuteronomy 2:34

At that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors.
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Reference	Passage	Kind	Date
Deut 2:34	Against Celsus 7.19 · Origen	quotation, medium confidence	ca. 248