Isaiah 16:2

New English Translation

At the fords of the Arnon the Moabite women are like a bird that flies about when forced from its nest.

Cross References

2 Kings 3:4

Now King Mesha of Moab was a sheep breeder. He would send as tribute to the king of Israel 100,000 male lambs and the wool of 100,000 rams.

Proverbs 26:2

Like a fluttering bird or like a flying swallow, so a curse without cause does not come to rest.

Proverbs 27:8

Like a bird that wanders from its nest, so is a person who wanders from his home.

Isaiah 13:14

Like a frightened gazelle or a sheep with no shepherd, each will turn toward home, each will run to his homeland.

Jeremiah 48:20

They will answer, ‘Moab is disgraced, for it has fallen! Wail and cry out in mourning! Announce along the Arnon River that Moab has been destroyed.’

Jeremiah 48:46

Moab, you are doomed! You people who worship Chemosh will be destroyed. Your sons will be taken away captive. Your daughters will be carried away into exile.

Jeremiah 48:9

Set up a gravestone for Moab, for it will certainly be laid in ruins! Its cities will be laid waste and become uninhabited.”

Numbers 21:29

Woe to you, Moab. You are ruined, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons fugitives, and his daughters the prisoners of King Sihon of the Amorites.

Deuteronomy 2:36

From Aroer, which is at the edge of Wadi Arnon (it is the city in the wadi), all the way to Gilead there was not a town able to resist us – the Lord our God gave them all to us.

Deuteronomy 3:12

This is the land we brought under our control at that time: The territory extending from Aroer by the Wadi Arnon and half the Gilead hill country with its cities I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites.

Deuteronomy 3:8

So at that time we took the land of the two Amorite kings in the Transjordan from Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon

Joshua 13:16

Their territory started at Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon Valley) and included the city in the middle of the valley, the whole plain of Medeba,

Judges 11:18

Then Israel went through the desert and bypassed the land of Edom and the land of Moab. They traveled east of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon River; they did not go through Moabite territory (the Arnon was Moab’s border).