Deut 2:9

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Distress not the Moabites. or, Use no hostility againstMoab.

Num 22:4; Judg 11:17; 2Chr 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 [Ares,] 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.

Deut 2:5; Num 21:15; Num 21:28

the children.

Deut 2:19; Gen 19:36; Gen 19:37; Ps 83:8