Numbers 21:15

The rocks of the torrents were bowed down that they might rest in Ar, and lie down in the borders of the Moabites.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.

In Context

14Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord: As he did in the Red Sea, so will he do in the streams of Amen.

16When they went from that place, the well appeared whereof the Lord said to Moses: Gather the people together, and I will give them water.

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Cross References

Numbers 21:28A fire is gone out of Hesebon, a flame from the city of Sehon, and hath consumed Ar of the Moabites, and the inhabitants of the high places of the Arnon.

Deuteronomy 2:18Thou shalt pass this day the borders of Moab, the city named Ar:

Isaiah 15:1The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, it is silent: because the wall of Moab is destroyed in the night, it is silent.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 21:11-21

The Removal of the Camp. ( b. c. 1452.) 10 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth. 11 And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije-abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising. 12 From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared. 13 From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. 14 Wherefore it is… Read the whole commentary →

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