1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Deuteronomy 2:9 | And the Lord said to me: *Fight not against the Moabites, neither go to battle against them: for I will not give thee any of their land, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot in possession. Numbers 21:13. | Moabites. They allowed the Hebrews to pass, as the Idumeans had done; (ver. 29,) but they treated them with no particular marks of affection, (chap. 23:3,) nor would they suffer them to go across their country, Judges 11:17. --- Ar, is sometimes called Rabbah Moab, "the great city of the Moabites," (Josue 13:25,) and Areopolis. (Eusebius) |