Deuteronomy 3:9

The Zidonaee call Hermon Sirion, but the Amoraee call it the Mount of Snow:

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

( Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)

In Context

8And we took at that time from the hand of the two kings of the Amoraah, the country on this side of Jordana, from the river of Arnon unto the mountain of Hermon.

10All the cities of the plain, all Gilead, and all Mathnan, unto Salka and Edrehi, cities of the kingdom of Og in Mathnan.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:48From Aroer, upon the bank of the river Arnon to the mountain of Siaon, which is Hermon;

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 3:2-12

Sihon and Og Subdued. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. 2 And the Lord said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon. 3 So the Lord our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was… Read the whole commentary →

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