Isaiah 16:2

New American Bible - revised edition

Like flushed birds, like scattered nestlings, Are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.

Cross References

2 Kings 3:4

Now Mesha, king of Moab, who raised sheep, used to pay the king of Israel as tribute a hundred thousand lambs and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.

Proverbs 26:2

Like the sparrow in its flitting, like the swallow in its flight, a curse uncalled-for never lands.

Proverbs 27:8

Like a bird far from the nest so is anyone far from home.

Isaiah 13:14

Like a hunted gazelle, or a flock that no one gathers, They shall turn each to their own people and flee each to their own land.

Jeremiah 48:20

“Moab is put to shame, destroyed.” Wail and cry out, Proclaim it at the Arnon: “Moab is destroyed!”

Jeremiah 48:46

Woe to you, Moab! You are finished, people of Chemosh! Your sons are taken into exile, your daughters into captivity.

Jeremiah 48:9

Set up a tombstone for Moab; it will soon become a complete wasteland, Its cities turned into ruins where no one dwells.

Numbers 21:29

Woe to you, Moab! You are no more, people of Chemosh! He let his sons become fugitives and his daughters be taken captive by the Amorite king Sihon.

Deuteronomy 2:36

From Aroer on the edge of the Wadi Arnon and from the town in the wadi itself, as far as Gilead, no city was too well fortified for us. All of them the Lord, our God, gave over to us.

Deuteronomy 3:12

As for the land we took possession of at that time, I gave Reuben and Gad the territory from Aroer, on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, halfway up into the highlands of Gilead, with its cities.

Deuteronomy 3:8

And so at that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites beyond the Jordan the territory from the Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon

Joshua 13:16

Their territory reached from Aroer, on the bank of the Wadi Arnon, and the city in the wadi itself, through the tableland about Medeba,

Judges 11:18

Then they went through the wilderness, and bypassing the land of Edom and the land of Moab, they arrived east of the land of Moab and encamped across the Arnon. Thus they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon is the boundary of Moab.