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From there they journeyed, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that comes out of the border of the Amorites: for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
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God's Precise Boundaries
Commentators explain that Moses is very precise about the location. Israel camped on the side of the Arnon River that the Amorites controlled, not the Moabites. This detail demonstrates Israel's obedience to God's command not to attack Moab and establishes a just cause for the coming conflict with the Amorites.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The Arnon, now the Wady Mojeb, an impetuous torrent, divided the territory which remained to the Moabites from that which the Amorites had wrested …
19th Century
Anglican
On the other side of Arnon. — Better, by the side of the Arnon. (Compare to Deuteronomy 2:24, 26.) The Hebrew word which …
16th Century
Protestant
From thence they removed, and pitched. I will soon add what Moses relates in Deuteronomy respecting the Moabites and Ammonites. Since here…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
From there they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon A river on the border…
We have here the journeys of the children of Israel, until they came to the plains of Moab, from where they passed over the Jordan into Canaan. The…
