Numbers 21:15

15 and the slope of the vadis extending as far as the site of 'Ar, which lie next to the territory of Mo'av."

Numbers 21:15 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 21:15

And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the
dwelling of Ar
All that part of the country which lay upon the stream, as far as the city of Ar, the metropolis of Moab, called Ar of Moab, ( Isaiah 15:1 ) ,

and lieth upon the border of Moab;
as that city did; so far goes the quotation out of the aforesaid book, as a proof of what was taken by the Amorites from the Moabites, and were not in their possession when Israel were upon their borders; and therefore, in taking them from the Amorites, did no wrong to Moab.

Numbers 21:15 In-Context

13 From there they traveled and camped on the other side of the Arnon, in the desert; this river comes out of the territory of the Emori; for the Arnon is the boundary between Mo'av and the Emori.

14 This is why it says, in the Book of the Wars of ADONAI, ". . . Vahev at Sufah, the vadis of Arnon,

15 and the slope of the vadis extending as far as the site of 'Ar, which lie next to the territory of Mo'av."

16 From there they went on to Be'er [well]; that is the well about which ADONAI said to Moshe, "Assemble the people, and I will give them water."

17 Then Isra'el sang this song: "Spring up, oh well! Sing to the well