9And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
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Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. …
And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.
For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.
Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day: …
And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-23)It is observable here that Moses, speaking of the Edomites (Deut. 2:8), calls them, “ our brethren, the children of Esau .” Though they had been unkind to Israel, in refusing them a peaceable passage through their country, yet he calls them brethren. For, though our relations fail in their duty to us, we must retain a sense of the relation, and not be wanting in our duty to them, as there is occas…
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