Ar is mentioned in the
Hebrew Bible
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;["Tanach"](_blank)
''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''. Hebrew: ''TΔn ...
several times as a city of ancient
Moab
Moab ''MΕΓ‘b''; Assyrian: π¬πͺπππ ''Mu'abΓ’'', π πͺπππ
''Ma'bΓ’'', π πͺπ ''Ma'ab''; Egyptian: ππππ
±π ''MΕ«'Δ«bΕ«'', name=, group= () is the name of an ancient Levantine kingdom whose territo ...
(). While the exact location is unknown, it is likely to have been in the southern part of the
Arnon Valley, which is the present day Wadi Mujib gorge in Jordan. The city was one of Moab's most prominent, being listed by the prophet
Isaiah
Isaiah ( or ; he, , ''YΙΕ‘aΚΏyΔhΕ«'', "God is Salvation"), also known as Isaias, was the 8th-century BC Israelite prophet after whom the Book of Isaiah is named.
Within the text of the Book of Isaiah, Isaiah himself is referred to as "the ...
in his denunciation of the Moabite nation ().
Matthew Poole
Matthew Poole (1624β1679) was an English Non-conformist theologian and biblical commentator.
Life to 1662
He was born at York, the son of Francis Pole, but he spelled his name Poole, and in Latin Polus; his mother was a daughter of Alderman T ...
suggested that "the city was seated in an island in the middle of the river".
The
Bible
The Bible (from Koine Greek , , 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, and many other religions. The Bible is an anthologya compilation of texts of a ...
speaks of Ar as being captured by the
Amorite
The Amorites (; sux, π₯π
, MAR.TU; Akkadian: ππ¬ππ or πΎππ‘π/π ; he, ΧΦ±ΧΧΦΉΧ¨Φ΄Χ, 'ΔmΕrΔ«; grc, αΌΞΌΞΏΟΟΞ±αΏΞΏΞΉ) were an ancient Northwest Semitic-speaking people from the Levant who also occupied lar ...
King Sihon ().
Modern scholars believe that the word "Ar" likely meant "city".
See also
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Isaiah 15
Isaiah 15 is the fifteenth chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Isaiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. This chapter a ...
, prophecy against Ar and Moab
References
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Hebrew Bible cities
Book of Isaiah