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Isaiah 16:2

WEB

2For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

KJV

2For it shall be, that, as a wandering[+] bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

BSB

2Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon:

FBV

2[+] The Moabite women at the fords of the Arnon[+] are like birds fluttering around when their nest is destroyed.

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Extra References

Proverbs 27:8

8As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home.


Judges 11:18

18Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but they didn’t come within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.


Deuteronomy 3:12

12This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites;


Joshua 13:16

16Their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;


Deuteronomy 2:36

36From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. The LORD our God delivered up all before us.


Numbers 21:13-15

13From there they traveled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. 14Therefore it is said in The Book of the Wars of the LORD, “Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon, 15the slope of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab.”


Deuteronomy 3:8

8We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon.


Isaiah 13:14

14It will happen that like a hunted gazelle and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land.


Jeremiah 48:20

20Moab is disappointed; for it is broken down. Wail and cry! Tell it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.