Isaiah 16:2

God's Word

Moab’s daughters are like fluttering birds, like scattered nestlings, at the shallow crossings of the Arnon River.

Cross References

2 Kings 3:4

King Mesha of Moab raised sheep. ⌞Each year⌟ he had to pay the king of Israel 100,000 male lambs and the wool from 100,000 rams.

Proverbs 26:2

Like a fluttering sparrow, like a darting swallow, so a hastily spoken curse does not come to rest.

Proverbs 27:8

Like a bird wandering from its nest, so is a husband wandering from his home.

Isaiah 13:14

They’ll be like hunted gazelle and like sheep with no one to gather them. Everyone will return to his own people and flee to his own land.

Jeremiah 48:20

They will answer, ‘Moab is disgraced; it is defeated. Shout loudly, and cry. Tell the news in Arnon that Moab is destroyed.’

Jeremiah 48:46

How horrible it will be for you, Moab. You people of Chemosh will die. Your sons will be taken away into exile, and your daughters will be taken away into captivity.

Jeremiah 48:9

Put salt on Moab. It will be destroyed. Its cities will become deserted ruins.

Numbers 21:29

How horrible it is for you, Moab! You are destroyed, you people of the god Chemosh. Chemosh let his sons become refugees and he let his daughters become prisoners of King Sihon of the Amorites.

Deuteronomy 2:36

From Aroer on the edge of the Arnon Valley and the city in that valley as far as Gilead, no city had walls that could keep us out. The Lord our God gave us all of them.

Deuteronomy 3:12

At that time we took possession of this land. I gave the tribes of Reuben and Gad the land north of Aroer near the Arnon Valley and half of the mountain region of Gilead with its cities.

Deuteronomy 3:8

We took the land of the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan River, from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon.

Joshua 13:16

Their territory extended from Aroer on the edge of the Arnon Valley, including the city in the middle of the valley and the whole plateau near Medeba.

Judges 11:18

“Then they went through the desert, by-passing Edom and Moab. They camped east of Moab—east of the Arnon River. They did not cross the Arnon River because it was Moab’s border.