* in the book.
Jos 10:13 2Sa 1:18
* What he did. or, Vaheb in Suphah.
The following seems to be the sense of this passage: "From
Vaheb in Suphah, and the torrents of Arnon, even the effusion
of the torrents, which goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and
lieth for the boundary of Moab; even from thence to the well;
(which is the well of which Jehovah spake unto Moses, Gather
the people, and I will give them water. Then sang Israel this
song: Spring up, O Well! Answer ye to it. The well, princes
digged it; even nobles of the people digged it, by a decree,
upon their borders;) and from the wilderness (or the well, as
in LXX.) to Mattanah; and from Mattanah," etc. The whole of
this, from ver. 14-20, is a fragment from "the book of the
wars of Jehovah," probably a book of remembrances or
directions written by Moses for the use of Joshua, and
describes the several boundaries of the land of Moab. This
rendering removes every obscurity, and obviates every
difficulty.
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