Deuteronomy 3:17

the Arabah also, and Jordan for a border The territory included the E. strip of the -Arabah hence eastwardsat the end of the verse with the Jordan as its W. limit, and this between Chinnerethon the N. and the Sea of the -Arabahon the S. On the -Arabah see Deuteronomy 1:1. Kinnérethwas a town (Joshua 11:2; Joshua 19:35; the plur. Kinn e roth a district, 1 Kings 15:20) either giving its name to, or taking its name from, the Sea of Kinnéreth (Numbers 34:11, P); probably the latter, if K. be from kinnôr, harp, as this suits the shape of the Lake; in later times called the L. of Gennesaret, a name frequently but not plausibly derived from Kinnereth (HGHL, 443). The Sea of the -Arabah(so Deuteronomy 4:49; 2 Kings 14:25), the Salt Sea(so Genesis 14:3; Numbers 34:3; Numbers 34:12; Joshua 15:2; Joshua 15:5; Joshua 18:19); both names as here in Joshua 3:16; Joshua 12:23; called also frontor E. Sea(Ezekiel 47:18; Joel 2:20; Zechariah 14:8) in contrast to the Mediterranean the backor W. Sea, Deuteronomy 11:24. The Greeks gave the name Asphaltitis. -The Dead Sea" first occurs under Augustus. Ar. Baḥr Lût, -Lot's Sea."

the slopes of Pisgah So Deuteronomy 4:49; Joshua 12:3; Joshua 13:20. The Heb. "ashedôthis slopesrather than springs(A.V.) as appears from the masc. form of the word, Numbers 21:15 (the eshed of the wâdies, which stretches to -Ar's site and leans on the border of Moab); slopes, too, is most suitable in Joshua 10:40; Joshua 12:8, and with the use of the prepos. underin this verse. The Pisgah(always so) is the name attached by E (Numbers 21:20; Numbers 23:14) and by deuteronomic writers to -the western edge" (G. B. Gray), or the headlands, of the Moabite Plateau at the N.E. corner of the Dead Sea. The headland of the Pisgah, which Moses ascended, Deuteronomy 3:27, is in Deuteronomy 32:49 (P) Mt Nebo(cp. their identification in Deuteronomy 34:1), that headland S. of the W. -Uyûn Musa which bears the names en-Neba" and Râs en-Neba", just opposite the N. end of the sea (HGHL, 562 ff.). One of its lower steps, called Wat en-Na-am, is identified by Musil (Moab, 272, 274) with the slopes of the Pisgah. The deep W. es-Seyâle which cleaves this he takes as Abel Shittim (Numbers 33:49); but the latter is probably part of the Jordan valley. See further on Beth-P e -or, Deuteronomy 3:29. The name Pisgah has disappeared, unless we are to recognise it in the almost equivalent Râs Feshkhah, a headland on the opposite coast of the sea.