Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities,.... Or, "the shoulder of Moab" ; that part of their country where their greatest strength lay, So the Targum renders it,"the strength of Moab;''where their principal cities were, their frontier towns, and fortified places, as appears by what follows:from his cities which are on his frontiers; or, "from his Ars" ,from his cities which are at his end; at the extreme part of the land, upon the borders of his countries; the two cities of Ar and Aroer, Nu 21:28:the glory of the country; as the above cities were, and what follow:Bethjeshimoth; this was formerly in the tribe of Reuben, now in the possession of the Moabites, and one of their principal cities, Jos 13:20:Baalmeon; the same with Bethbaalmeon, and which was also of the tribe of Reuben, Jos 13:17, in Jerom's time it was a large village in Moab, about nine miles from Heshbon: some think by Meon is meant Menes, or Osiris the god of the Egyptians, and so this might be a temple of his; or at least he might have a temple in it, from whence it had its name:and Kirjathaim; or the double city, built also by the Reubenites, Nu 32:37, now in the hands of the Moabites, ten miles from Medeba; on this side of the country of Moab, and through these cities, the Lord threatens to open a way for their enemies to enter in and destroy them, as follows: Ptk ton wmon, Sept.
; "humerum", V. L. Montanus.