Numbers 21:15

15 and on the ryuers heed whiche shoteth doune to dwell at Ar and leneth vppon the costes of Moab.

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 And they departed thence and pitched on the other syde of Arno which ryuer is in the wildernesse and cometh out of the costes of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab betwene Moab and the Amorites.

14 Wherfore it is spoken in the boke of the warre of the Lorde: goo with a violence both on the ryuer of Arnon

15 and on the ryuers heed whiche shoteth doune to dwell at Ar and leneth vppon the costes of Moab.

16 And from thence they came to Bear whiche is the well whereof the Lorde spake vnto Moses: gather the people together that I maye geue them water.

17 Then Israel sange this songe: Aryse vpp well synge thereto: