Isaiah 16:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Like fluttering birds, like scattered nestlings, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.

Cross References

2 Kings 3:4

Now King Mesha of Moab was a sheep breeder who used to deliver to the king of Israel one hundred thousand lambs and the wool of one hundred thousand rams.

Proverbs 26:2

Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, an undeserved curse goes nowhere.

Proverbs 27:8

Like a bird that strays from its nest is one who strays from home.

Isaiah 13:14

Like a gazelle on the run or like sheep with no one to gather them, all will turn back to their own people, and all will flee to their own lands.

Jeremiah 48:20

Moab is put to shame, for it is broken down; wail and cry! Tell it by the Arnon that Moab is laid waste.

Jeremiah 48:46

Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished, for your sons have been taken captive and your daughters into captivity.

Jeremiah 48:9

Set aside salt for Moab, for she will surely fall; her towns shall become a desolation, with no inhabitant in them.

Numbers 21:29

Woe to you, O Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons fugitives and his daughters captives to an Amorite king, Sihon.

Deuteronomy 2:36

From Aroer on the edge of the Wadi Arnon (including the town that is in the wadi itself) as far as Gilead, there was no citadel too high for us. The Lord our God gave everything to us.

Deuteronomy 3:12

As for the land that we took possession of at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites the territory north of Aroer that is on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, as well as half the hill country of Gilead with its towns,

Deuteronomy 3:8

“So at that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites the land beyond the Jordan, from the Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon

Joshua 13:16

Their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, and the town that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by Medeba;

Judges 11:18

Then they journeyed through the wilderness, went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab, arrived on the east side of the land of Moab, and camped on the other side of the Arnon. They did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab.