Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on Deuteronomy 2:9

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Distress not the Moabites: or, Use no hostility against Moab, Num 22:4; Jdg 11:17; Ch2 20:10 Ar: Ar was situated south of the Arnon; and was called by the Greek writers Areopolis, and thought by them to be so named because the inhabitants worshipped Αρης, or Mars. St. Jerome says that it was destroyed by an earthquake when he was an infant. Burckhardt supposes that the ruins of a small castle called Mehatet el Hadj, may be the site of this ancient city. Deu 2:5; Num 21:15, Num 21:28 the children: Deu 2:19; Gen 19:36, Gen 19:37; Psa 83:8 Deuteronomy 2:10

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