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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Deuteronomy 3:16 - 3:16
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from Gilead - that is, not the mountainous region, but the town Ramoth-gilead,
even unto the river Arnon half the valley - The word “valley” signifies a wady, either filled with water or dry, as the Arnon is in summer, and thus the proper rendering of the passage will be - “even to the half or middle of the river Arnon” (compare Jos 12:2). This prudent arrangement of the boundaries was evidently made to prevent all disputes between the adjacent tribes about the exclusive right to the water.