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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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Albert Barnes
On Numbers 21:13
18th Century
Theologian
The Arnon, now the Wady Mojeb, an impetuous torrent, divided the territory which remained to the Moabites from that which the Amorites had wrested …
Charles Ellicott
On Numbers 21:13
19th Century
Bishop
On the other side of Arnon. — Better, by the side of the Arnon. (Compare to Deuteronomy 2:24, 26.) The Hebrew word which …
John Calvin
On Numbers 21:13
16th Century
Theologian
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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John Gill
On Numbers 21:13
17th Century
Pastor
From there they removed, and pitched on the other side of
Arnon
A river on the border…
Matthew Henry
On Numbers 21:10–20
17th Century
Minister
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…