From Nave’s Topical Bible
Arnon
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 10Passages listed
- 4Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- (A river emptying into the Dead Sea from the east)
- Boundary between Moabites and AmoritesNumbers 21:13Numbers 21:26Numbers 22:36Deuteronomy 2:24Deuteronomy 2:36Deuteronomy 3:8Deuteronomy 3:16Joshua 12:1
- Fords ofIsaiah 16:2
- Miracles atNumbers 21:14
The passages, in Bible order (10)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 10 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Numbers 21:13
From there they moved on and camped on the other side of the Arnon, in the wilderness that extends into the Amorite territory. Now the Arnon is the border between the Moabites and the Amorites.
Commentary on Numbers 21:132 voices
This is added to reconcile two seemingly contrary commands of God, the one that of not meddling with the land of the Moabites, Deut. ii, 9, the other that of going over Arnon and taking possession of the land beyond it, Deut. ii, 24, because, saith he, it is not now the land of the Moabites, but of the Amorites.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Numbers 21:14
Therefore it is stated in the Book of the Wars of the LORD: “Waheb in Suphah and the wadis of the Arnon,
Commentary on Numbers 21:142 voices
The brooks - The brook, the plural number for the singular, as the plural number rivers is used concerning Jordan, Psalm 7iv, 15, and concerning Tigris, Nahum ii, 6, and concerning Euphrates, Psalm 1xxxvii, 1, all which may be to called because of the several little streams into which they were divided.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Numbers 21:26
Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land as far as the Arnon.
Commentary on Numbers 21:262 voices
Was the city of Sihon - This is added as a reason why Israel took possession of this land, because it was not now the land of the Moabites, but in the possession of the Amorites.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Numbers 22:36
When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him at the Moabite city on the Arnon border, at the edge of his territory.
Commentary on Numbers 22:361 voice
And when Balak heard that Balaam was come,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 2:24
“Arise, set out, and cross the Arnon Valley. See, I have delivered into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession of it and engage him in battle.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 2:242 voices
Rise ye up . . . and pass over the river Arnon--At its mouth, this stream is eighty-two feet wide and four deep. It flows in a channel banked by perpendicular cliffs of sandstone.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 2:36
From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 2:362 voices
Rise ye up . . . and pass over the river Arnon--At its mouth, this stream is eighty-two feet wide and four deep. It flows in a channel banked by perpendicular cliffs of sandstone.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river Arnon.... Upon the border of Moab, and the principal city of it; see Jer 48:19. and from the city that is by the river; or even the city that is in the midst of the river, the city Aroer, which seems to be meant; see Jos 12:
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 3:8
At that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites the land across the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon—
Commentary on Deuteronomy 3:82 voices
Argob was the capital of a district in Bashan of the same name, which, together with other fifty-nine cities in the same province, were conspicuous for their lofty and fortified walls. It was a war of extermination.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
And we took at that time out of the hands of the two kings of the Amorites,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 3:16
and to the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead to the Arnon Valley (the middle of the valley was the border) and up to the Jabbok River, the border of the Ammonites.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 3:162 voices
There the bounds of Sihon's kingdom, which was the same portion here mentioned as given to Reuben and Gad, are thus described, from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river of Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
The sense is that the Reubenites and Gadites were to possess the district from the Jabbok on the north to the Arnon on the south, including the middle part of the valley of the Arnon, and the territory (coast or border) thereto pertaining.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Joshua 12:1
Now these are the kings of the land whom the Israelites struck down and whose lands they took beyond the Jordan to the east, from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon, including all the Arabah eastward:
Commentary on Joshua 12:12 voices
And if "a wise man shall understand the words from his own mouth and shall hear knowledge on his lips," we must either declare rashly that the prophets were not wise, if they have not understood "the words from their own mouth," or admit that the prophets were wise, because they have received what is correct and true and have understood "the words from their own mouth" and borne knowledge on their lips.
Origen of Alexandria· COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 6.21-22, 253Patristic
Now these are the kings of the land which the children of Israel smote,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Isaiah 16:2
Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon:
Commentary on Isaiah 16:22 voices
Then, as for Job, that pattern of patience, what mysteries are there not contained in his discourses? Commencing in prose the book soon glides into verse and at the end once more reverts to prose. By the way in which it lays down propositions, assumes postulates, adduces proofs and draws inferences, it illustrates all the laws of logic. Single words occurring in the book are full of meaning. To say nothing of other topics, it prophesies the resurrection of humankind's bodies at once with more clearness and with more caution than anyone has yet shown.
Jerome· LETTER 53.8, 420Patristic
For it shall be,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed