Deuteronomy 3:10

all the cities of, etc.] This follows immediately on Deuteronomy 3:8, showing that Deuteronomy 3:9 is an inserted gloss, and details the land summarised in 8, from S. to N.

the plain Rather, Plateau (Heb. ham-Mishôr), i.e. of Mo-ab; E, Numbers 21:10: field of M.

all Gilead From the N. end of the Plateau (exact frontier uncertain) up to the Yarmûk; divided into halves by the Jabboḳ.

all Bashan All N. of the Yarmûk; see on Deuteronomy 3:1.

unto Salecah and Edrei Salekah(with soft k) is the Arab. Ṣalkhad, the Ṣarkhad of the Arab. geographers, the present Ṣalkhad (Merrill, E. of Jordan, 50 ff.; Burckhardt, 100 f.), some 40 miles E.S.E. of Edre-i on the S.W. slope of the Jebel Ḥauran or ed-Drûz. Cp. Joshua 12:5; Joshua 13:11. It would represent, therefore, the S.E. limit of -Ôg's kingdom, while Edre-i lay near the W. end of the same frontier. Why have two sites on the S. of Bashan been selected to define a conquest already described as extending N. to Ḥermôn? We should expect: from Edre-i even to Salekah, or to some site further N. The text is confirmed, however, by Sam. and LXX. Some therefore take Edre-i here, not as the mod. Dera-at (Deuteronomy 3:1) but as Edhra- or Zor-a near the S.W. corner of the Lejá. This, however, helps little.