The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence:
Numbers 21:15 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition and at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And at the stream of the brooks That goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, And lieth upon the border of Moab. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the slope of the valleys that stretch toward the site of Ar and find support on the border of Moab. American Standard Version (1901) And the slope of the valleys That inclineth toward the dwelling of Ar, And leaneth upon the border of Moab. Common English Bible and the ravines that extend to the settlement of Ar and lie along the border of Moab. Catholic Public Domain Version The stones of the torrents were bent, so that they might rest in Ar and lie back within the borders of the Moabites. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The rocks of the torrents were bowed down that they might rest in Ar: and lie down in the borders of the Moabites. |
The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence:
Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
for there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.
(as the children of Esau which dwell in Se´ir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me:) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the Lord our God giveth us.
And the Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.