1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Numbers 21:26 | Hesebon was the city of Sehon, the king of the Amorrhites, who fought against the king of Moab: and took all the land, that had been of his dominions, as far as the Arnon. | Arnon. Hence this territory, which formerly belonged to Moab, being taken in a just war, the Moabites could not lawfully retain it, as they attempted to do under Jephte, Judges 11:13. (Grotius, Jur. 3:6.) --- Hesebon, or Esbus, was the capital, and lay over-against Jericho, twenty miles from the Jordan. |