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The LORD said to me, “Don’t bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you any of his land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.”
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Verse 9. Moabites. They allowed the Hebrews to pass, as the Idumeans had done; (verse 29,) but they treated them with no particular marks of affection, (Calmet. 23:3,) nor would they suffer them to go across their country. Judges 11:17.—Ar is sometimes called Rabbah Moab, “the great city of the Moabites,” (John 13:25,) and Areopolis. Euseb.
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