Deuteronomy 3:8

the two kings of the Amorites Deuteronomy 2:26 to Deuteronomy 3:7. -Ôg-s people have not previously been called Amorites: cp. Deuteronomy 4:47; Deuteronomy 31:4, and the editorial Joshua 2:10; Joshua 9:10; Joshua 24:8; Joshua 12 b. Amoriteapparently in the same general sense as in E, e.g. Joshua 5:1; Joshua 10:5. -Ôg himself was of the pre-Amorite Repha-im, Deuteronomy 3:11.

beyond Jordan As in Deuteronomy 1:5 the writer betrays his standpoint in W. Palestine. On the other hand the standpoint of Moses E. of Jordan is properly observed in Deuteronomy 3:20; Deuteronomy 3:25. Dillm. therefore takes Deuteronomy 3:8 as a later insertion. But must we assume a rigorous consistency in the writer of the discourse?

valley of Arnon Deuteronomy 2:24.

unto mount Ḥermon This carries Israel's conquest further N. than previously described; another sign of a later hand? Ḥermôn, from the root ḥrm, sacred(see on Deuteronomy 2:34); either from a sanctuary on the mount or because the whole mount was held sacred: cp. Judges 3:3, Mt Ba-al Ḥermôn. The name covered the long S. end of Anti-Lebanon, above the sources of Jordan, and occurs also in the plur. Ḥermônîm, Psalms 42:6, probably because of its triple summit. From its height of 9200 ft H. dominates all Ḥauran or Bashan, is visible as far S. as the heights above Jericho, and forms the natural N. boundary of all E. Palestine. One of its modern names, Jebel esh-Sheikh, means, not -old-man mountain," from its snowy hoary appearance, but -Mount of the Elder" or -Holy Man," some famous saint; according to Conder (Hastings" D. B.ii. 352) the Sheikh ed-Derâzi, the founder of the Druzes. Another name is Jebel, or Towîl, eth-Thalj, -Mount," or -Height of Snow."