Deuteronomy 4:48

48 extending from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Siyon ^[a] (that is, Hermon),

Deuteronomy 4:48 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 4:48

From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon
A city of Moab, which was situated on the bank of the river Arnon, that was on the border of Moab, ( Deuteronomy 2:36 ) ( 3:12 ) ,

even unto Mount Sion, which [is] Hermon;
the meaning is, that the lands of these two kings conquered by Israel reached from the city Aroer on the river Arnon to Mount Hermon, the one being the southern, the other the northern boundary of them. Here Hermon has another name Sion, and is to be carefully distinguished from Mount Zion near Jerusalem; it lying in a different country, and being written with a different letter in the Hebrew language. In the Septuagint version it is called Seon, and by the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem the mount of snow; (See Gill on Deuteronomy 3:9).

Deuteronomy 4:48 In-Context

46 while they were in the valley across the Jordan facing Beth-peor in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon and was defeated by Moses and the Israelites after they had come out of Egypt.

47 They took possession of the land belonging to Sihon and to Og king of Bashan—the two Amorite kings across the Jordan to the east—

48 extending from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Siyon (that is, Hermon),

49 including all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan and as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below the slopes of Pisgah.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or Sion; Syriac Sirion