Isaiah 16:2

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The women of Moab crossing the River Arnon are like a flock of birds scattered from their nests.

Cross References

2 Kings 3:4

For many years the country of Moab had been controlled by Israel and was forced to pay taxes to the kings of Israel. King Mesha of Moab raised sheep, so he paid the king of Israel one hundred thousand lambs and the wool from one hundred thousand rams.

Proverbs 26:2

A curse you don't deserve will take wings and fly away like a sparrow or a swallow.

Proverbs 27:8

When you are far from home, you feel like a bird without a nest.

Isaiah 13:14

Everyone will run to their homelands, just as hunted deer run, and sheep scatter when they have no shepherd.

Jeremiah 48:20

They will answer, “Moab has been defeated! Weep with us in shame. Tell everyone at the River Arnon that Moab is destroyed.”

Jeremiah 48:46

People of Moab, you worshipped Chemosh, your god, but now you are done for, and your children are prisoners in a foreign country.

Jeremiah 48:9

Spread salt on the ground to kill the crops. Leave its towns in ruins, with no one living there.

Numbers 21:29

You Moabites are done for! Your god Chemosh deserted your people; they were captured, taken away by King Sihon the Amorite.

Deuteronomy 2:36

The LORD helped us capture every town from the gorge of the River Arnon north to the boundary of Gilead, including the town of Aroer on the edge of the gorge and the town in the middle of the gorge.

Deuteronomy 3:12

I gave some of the land and towns we captured to the tribes of Reuben and Gad. Their share started at the gorge of the River Arnon in the south, took in the town of Aroer on the edge of the gorge, and went far enough north to include the southern half of the Gilead region. The northern part of their land went as far east as the upper gorge of the River Jabbok, which formed their border with the Ammonites. I also gave them the eastern side of the valley of the River Jordan, from Lake Galilee south to the Dead Sea below the slopes of Mount Pisgah. I gave the northern half of Gilead and all of the Bashan region to half the tribe of Manasseh. Bashan had belonged to King Og, and the Argob region in Bashan used to be called the Land of the Rephaim. Jair from the Manasseh tribe conquered the Argob region as far west as the kingdoms of Geshur and Maacah. The Israelites even started calling Bashan by the name “Villages of Jair”, and that is still its name. I gave the northern half of Gilead to the Machir clan.

Deuteronomy 3:8

Sihon and Og had ruled Amorite kingdoms east of the River Jordan. Their land stretched from the gorge of the River Arnon in the south to Mount Hermon in the north, and we captured it all.

Joshua 13:16

Their land started in the south at the town in the middle of the valley of the River Arnon, took in the town of Aroer on the northern edge of the valley, and went as far north as the flat lands around Medeba.

Judges 11:18

A little later, the Israelites set out into the desert, going east of Edom and Moab, and camping on the eastern side of the gorge of the River Arnon. The Arnon is the eastern border of Moab, and since the Israelites didn't cross it, they didn't even set foot in Moab.