John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 13:9

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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From Aroer, that [is] on the bank of the river Arnon, etc.] A city belonging to Moab, from whence the description begins, the river Arnon, on which it was situated, being the border between Moab and the Amorites, (<042113>Numbers 21:13); and the city that [is] in the midst of the river; or “even the city”; meaning the same city of Aroer, it lying both on the bank of it, and in the middle of it, or it was a double city, as may seem from (<231702>Isaiah 17:2); and so differently situated at that river: and all the plains of Medeba unto Dibon; of these two places, (see <042130> Numbers 21:30); between them lay a plain, which some take to be the plain of Moab; but it rather seems to be a plain that was between these two places, and, according to (<061317>Joshua 13:17), Dibon itself was in a plain.

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