The children of Ammon] see Genesis 19:38, where they are said to be akin to the Hebrews. They claimed the land between the Arnon and the Jabbok, E. of Jordan, which the tribes of Reuben and Gad had partly possessed, and which includes a large part of Gilead (Judges 10:8). The Amorites were the aboriginal inhabitants of this, as of the hill-country W. of the Jordan.

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