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Arnon

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Numbers 21:13 gives it as the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites, and Israel encamps on its other side; at 21:24 Israel possesses Sihon’s land from the Arnon to the Jabbok. Numbers 22:36 has Balak go out to meet Balaam at the city on the border of the Arnon, at the edge of the border of Moab. Deuteronomy 2:24 gives the command, “pass over the valley of the Arnon”; 2:36 and 3:12 name Aroer by the valley of the Arnon; 3:8 has the land taken from the two kings of the Amorites reach “from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon”; and 3:16 gives the Reubenites and the Gadites land “from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and its border”.

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2KI 10:32–33, engwebp
³²In those days the LORD began to cut away parts of Israel; and Hazael struck them in all the borders of Israel
³³from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
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DEU 2:24–25, engwebp
²⁴“Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon. Behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
²⁵Today I will begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.”
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DEU 2:30–37, engwebp
³⁰But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as it is today.
³¹The LORD said to me, “Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before you. Begin to possess, that you may inherit his land.”
³²Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz.
³³The LORD our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, his sons, and all his people.
³⁴We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones. We left no one remaining.
³⁵Only the livestock we took for plunder for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities which we had taken.
³⁶From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. The LORD our God delivered up all before us.
³⁷Only to the land of the children of Ammon you didn’t come near: all the banks of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill country, and wherever the LORD our God forbade us.
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DEU 3:8–11, engwebp
⁸We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon.
⁹(The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir.)
¹⁰We took all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
¹¹(For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron. Isn’t it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its width, after the cubit of a man.)
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DEU 3:12–17, engwebp
¹²This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites;
¹³and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh—all the region of Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim.
¹⁴Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.)
¹⁵I gave Gilead to Machir.
¹⁶To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and its border, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
¹⁷the Arabah also, and the Jordan and its border, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.
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DEU 4:44–49, engwebp
⁴⁴This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
⁴⁵These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt,
⁴⁶beyond the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck when they came out of Egypt.
⁴⁷They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;
⁴⁸from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Siyon (also called Hermon),
⁴⁹and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
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ISA 16:1–5, engwebp
¹Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.
²For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.
³Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive!
⁴Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortionist is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.
⁵A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.
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JDG 11:12–13, engwebp
¹²Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, “What do you have to do with me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?”
¹³The king of the children of Ammon answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took away my land when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan. Now therefore restore that territory again peaceably.”
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JDG 11:14–22, engwebp
¹⁴Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon;
¹⁵and he said to him, “Jephthah says: Israel didn’t take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon;
¹⁶but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh,
¹⁷then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let me pass through your land;’ but the king of Edom didn’t listen. In the same way, he sent to the king of Moab, but he refused; so Israel stayed in Kadesh.
¹⁸Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but they didn’t come within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.
¹⁹Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land to my place.’
²⁰But Sihon didn’t trust Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
²¹The LORD, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them. So Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
²²They possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan.
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JDG 11:23–28, engwebp
²³So now the LORD, the God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess them?
²⁴Won’t you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whoever the LORD our God has dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.
²⁵Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?
²⁶Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along the side of the Arnon for three hundred years! Why didn’t you recover them within that time?
²⁷Therefore I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. May the LORD the Judge be judge today between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.”
²⁸However, the king of the children of Ammon didn’t listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.
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JER 48:18–24, engwebp
¹⁸“You daughter who dwells in Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst; for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you. He has destroyed your strongholds.
¹⁹Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way and watch. Ask him who flees, and her who escapes; say, ‘What has been done?’
²⁰Moab is disappointed; for it is broken down. Wail and cry! Tell it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.
²¹Judgment has come on the plain country— on Holon, on Jahzah, on Mephaath,
²²on Dibon, on Nebo, on Beth Diblathaim,
²³on Kiriathaim, on Beth Gamul, on Beth Meon,
²⁴on Kerioth, on Bozrah, and on all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
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JOS 12:1–6, engwebp
¹Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward:
²Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;
³and the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth Jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah:
⁴and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
⁵and ruled in Mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
⁶Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of Israel struck them. Moses the servant of the LORD gave it for a possession to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
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JOS 13:8–13, engwebp
⁸With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them:
⁹from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon;
¹⁰and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon;
¹¹and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;
¹²all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (who was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for Moses attacked these, and drove them out.
¹³Nevertheless the children of Israel didn’t drive out the Geshurites, nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath live within Israel to this day.
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JOS 13:15–23, engwebp
¹⁵Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.
¹⁶Their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;
¹⁷Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the plain; Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,
¹⁸Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
¹⁹Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar in the mount of the valley,
²⁰Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, Beth Jeshimoth,
²¹all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.
²²The children of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor, the soothsayer, with the sword, among the rest of their slain.
²³The border of the children of Reuben was the bank of the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and its villages.
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NUM 21:10–15, engwebp
¹⁰The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in Oboth.
¹¹They traveled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrise.
¹²From there they traveled, and encamped in the valley of Zered.
¹³From there they traveled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
¹⁴Therefore it is said in The Book of the Wars of the LORD, “Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon,
¹⁵the slope of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab.”
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NUM 21:21–25, engwebp
²¹Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
²²“Let me pass through your land. We will not turn away into field or vineyard. We will not drink of the water of the wells. We will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed your border.”
²³Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border, but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz. He fought against Israel.
²⁴Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was fortified.
²⁵Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.
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NUM 21:26–30, engwebp
²⁶For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.
²⁷Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, “Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established;
²⁸for a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of the Arnon.
²⁹Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to Sihon king of the Amorites.
³⁰We have shot at them. Heshbon has perished even to Dibon. We have laid waste even to Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba.”
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NUM 22:36–41, engwebp
³⁶When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.
³⁷Balak said to Balaam, “Didn’t I earnestly send for you to summon you? Why didn’t you come to me? Am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?”
³⁸Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? I will speak the word that God puts in my mouth.”
³⁹Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath Huzoth.
⁴⁰Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes who were with him.
⁴¹In the morning, Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there part of the people.
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Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Arnon” by name and 12 shared verses. The leading identification is Wadi Mujib (confidence 1000 of 1000). The dataset gives no point for it, only the region, river or route it lies in or along, so no point is drawn for it.

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Wadi Mujib
OpenBible.info confidence 1000 of 1000 (current scholarship)
31.46583, 35.57333
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Arnon” (CC BY 4.0)

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Narrated location (2) — Encamping from Oboth to the other side of the Arnon, Balak meets Balaam at the city by the Arnon

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Numbers 21:13 Open that verse

From there they traveled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

Numbers 21:14 Open that verse

Therefore it is said in The Book of the Wars of the LORD, “Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon,

Numbers 21:24 Open that verse

Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was fortified.

Numbers 21:26 Open that verse

For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.

Numbers 21:28 Open that verse

for a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of the Arnon.

Numbers 22:36 Open that verse

When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.

Deuteronomy 2:24 Open that verse

“Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon. Behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.

Deuteronomy 2:36 Open that verse

From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. The LORD our God delivered up all before us.

Deuteronomy 3:8 Open that verse

We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon.

Deuteronomy 3:12 Open that verse

This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites;

Deuteronomy 3:16 Open that verse

To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and its border, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;

Deuteronomy 4:48 Open that verse

from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Siyon (also called Hermon),

Joshua 12:1 Open that verse

Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward:

Joshua 12:2 Open that verse

Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;

Joshua 13:9 Open that verse

from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon;

Joshua 13:16 Open that verse

Their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;

Judges 11:13 Open that verse

The king of the children of Ammon answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took away my land when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan. Now therefore restore that territory again peaceably.”

Judges 11:18 Open that verse

Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but they didn’t come within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.

Judges 11:22 Open that verse

They possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan.

Judges 11:26 Open that verse

Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along the side of the Arnon for three hundred years! Why didn’t you recover them within that time?

2 Kings 10:33 Open that verse

from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.

Isaiah 16:2 Open that verse

For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

Jeremiah 48:20 Open that verse

Moab is disappointed; for it is broken down. Wail and cry! Tell it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.

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Entry: Arnon (place-arnon)
Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/arnon
Current wording: Numbers 21:13 gives it as the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites, and Israel encamps on its other side; at 21:24 Israel possesses Sihon’s land from the Arnon to the Jabbok. Numbers 22:36 has Balak go out to meet Balaam at the city on the border of the Arnon, at the edge of the border of Moab. Deuteronomy 2:24 gives the command, “pass over the valley of the Arnon”; 2:36 and 3:12 name Aroer by the valley of the Arnon; 3:8 has the land taken from the two kings of the Amorites reach “from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon”; and 3:16 gives the Reubenites and the Gadites land “from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and its border”.
Cited evidence: 2KI 10:32–33, engwebp / DEU 2:24–25, engwebp / DEU 2:30–37, engwebp / DEU 3:8–11, engwebp / DEU 3:12–17, engwebp / DEU 4:44–49, engwebp / ISA 16:1–5, engwebp / JDG 11:12–13, engwebp (and 10 more of 18)
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