Because Israel: Numbers 21:24-26; Proverbs 19:5, Proverbs 19:9
from Arnon: That is, all the land which had belonged to the Amorites and Moabites.
Jabbok: Genesis 32:22; Deuteronomy 2:37, Deuteronomy 3:16
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Judges 11:13
Judges 11:13
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