Deuteronomy 2:9
Distress not the Moabites. or, Use no hostility againstMoab. Nu 22:4; Jud 11:17; 2Ch 20:10Ar.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. 5; Nu 21:15,28the children.19; Ge 19:36,37; Ps 83:8
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