John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 32:34

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the children of Gad built, etc.] Or rather repaired the walls and fortifications, and rebuilt houses which had been demolished in the wars with Sihon and Og; when the following places were taken by the Israelites: Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer; the two first are mentioned in (<043203>Numbers 32:3). Aroer was a city situated on the river Arnon, and was after this in the hands of the Moabites: Jerom says f468, it was showed in his day on the top of the mountain, upon the bank of the river Arnon, which flows into the Dead sea, (<244819>Jeremiah 48:19).

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