Bilangan 22:36

Balaam Meets Balak

22:36 When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him at a city of Moab which was on the border of the Arnon at the boundary of his territory.

Ulangan 2:24

2:24 Get up, make your way across Wadi Arnon. Look! I have already delivered over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, ¹  and his land. Go ahead! Take it! Engage him in war!

Yosua 12:1

12:1 Now these are the kings of the land whom the Israelites defeated and drove from their land ²  on the east side of the Jordan, ³  from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon, including all the eastern Arabah:

Hakim-hakim 11:13

11:13 The Ammonite king said to Jephthah’s messengers, “Because Israel stole ⁴  my land when they ⁵  came up from Egypt – from the Arnon River in the south to the Jabbok River in the north, and as far west as the Jordan. ⁶  Now return it ⁷  peaceably!”

Hakim-hakim 11:18

11:18 Then Israel ⁸  went through the desert and bypassed the land of Edom and the land of Moab. They traveled east of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon River; ⁹  they did not go through Moabite territory (the Arnon was Moab’s border).

Hakim-hakim 11:2

11:2 Gilead’s wife also gave ¹⁰  him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they made Jephthah leave and said to him, “You are not going to inherit any of our father’s wealth, ¹¹  because you are another woman’s son.”

1 Raja-raja 10:1

Solomon Entertains a Queen

10:1 When the queen of Sheba heard about Solomon, ¹²  she came to challenge ¹³  him with difficult questions. ¹⁴ 

Yesaya 16:2

16:2 At the fords of the Arnon ¹⁵ 

the Moabite women are like a bird

that flies about when forced from its nest. ¹⁶ 

Yeremia 48:20

48:20 They will answer, ‘Moab is disgraced, for it has fallen!

Wail and cry out in mourning!

Announce along the Arnon River

that Moab has been destroyed.’

[2:24]  ¹ sn Heshbon is the name of a prominent site (now Tell Hesba„n, about 7.5 mi [12 km] south southwest of Amman, Jordan). Sihon made it his capital after having driven Moab from the area and forced them south to the Arnon (Num 21:26-30). Heshbon is also mentioned in Deut 1:4.

[12:1]  ² tn Heb “and took possession of their land.”

[12:1]  ³ tn Heb “beyond the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun.”

[11:13]  ⁴ tn Or “took”; or “seized.”

[11:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “he” (a collective singular).

[11:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan.” The word “River” has been supplied in the translation with “Arnon” and “Jabbok,” because these are less familiar to modern readers than the Jordan.

[11:13]  ⁷ tc The translation assumes a singular suffix (“[return] it”); the Hebrew text has a plural suffix (“[return] them”), which, if retained, might refer to the cities of the land.

[11:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Israel; the pronoun in the Hebrew text represents a collective singular) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[11:18]  ⁹ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[11:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “bore.”

[11:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “in the house of our father.”

[10:1]  ¹² tn Heb “the report about Solomon.” The Hebrew text also has, “to the name of the Lord,” which fits very awkwardly in the sentence. If retained, perhaps it should be translated, “because of the reputation of the Lord.” The phrase, which is omitted in the parallel passage in 2 Chr 9:1, may be an addition based on the queen’s declaration of praise to the Lord in v. 9.

[10:1]  ¹³ tn Or “test.”

[10:1]  ¹⁴ tn Or “riddles.”

[16:2]  ¹⁵ tn The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.

[16:2]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “like a bird fleeing, thrust away [from] a nest, the daughters of Moab are [at] the fords of Arnon.”