Numbers 21:13
Then they traveled to the north side of the Arnon River. That area is in the desert next to the land where the Amor people-group lived. The Arnon River is the boundary between Moab and where the Amor people-group lived.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
12From there they traveled to the valley where the Zered riverbed is, and camped there.
Cross References
Numbers 21:14That is why in the book called ‘The Book of the Wars of Yahweh’ it tells about “Waheb town in the Suphah area, and the ravines there; and the Arnon River
Deuteronomy 2:13I also said to the Israeli people, “Then we crossed the Zered Gorge, as Yahweh told us to do.
Deuteronomy 2:24“ After we had gone through the Moab region, Yahweh said to us, ‘Now cross the Arnon River. I will help you to defeat [IDM] the army of Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group, who lives in Heshbon city. So attack their army and start to take their land from them.
Isaiah 16:2The women of Moab will be left alone at the ◄fords of/places where people can walk across► the Arnon River; they will be like [SIM] birds that have been pushed out of their nests.
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 →