Deuteronomy 2:9

Vex not Moab Treat not Moab as a foe.

neither contend with them See on Deuteronomy 2:5.

Ar -Ar(Numbers 21:15) or -Ar of Mo'ab(id.28) is in these passages a township, probably the same as -Ir, or City of, Mo'ab, on the border of Arnon at the end of the border(JE, Numbers 22:36). Musil identifies it with the strong site and ruins of Medeyyneh on an upper tributary of the W. Môjeb or Arnon (see below on Deuteronomy 2:24; Deuteronomy 2:36) on the edge of the desert (Moab247, 338 ff. with photo. and plan; cp. the present writer in Enc. Bibl., art. -Ar" and Expositor, seventh series, vol. vii. 138 ff.). But in Syria names have been at all times apt to extend from towns, especially capitals, to their districts and vice versâ. Here -Arobviously is a district: the territory of Mo'ab. So in Isaiah 15:1, LXX render -Ar Mo'ab by ἡ Μωαβεῖτις. At the time of Israel's march the name would cover all the land between the W. el-Ḥsa and the W. Môjeb or Arnon, to the S, of which Mo'ab were confined by the Amorites.

children of Lot Genesis 19:37; Psalms 83:8 (9).

Deuteronomy 2:9 is in the Sg. address and elided by Steuern. as the addition of a later hand. But some such warning as it gives in regard to the relations of Israel to Mo'ab was to be expected in this discourse, similar to that on Israel's relations to Edom and -Ammon. The change to the Sg. may be due either to the fact that Moses himself is addressed or because for the moment Israel, in relation to Mo'ab, is regarded as a single whole. Sam. confirms the Heb. Sg.; but LXX has the Pl.