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Deuteronomy 3:8-10
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8 So at that time we took the land of the two Amorite kings in the Transjordan from Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon[a] 9 (the Sidonians[b] call Hermon Sirion[c] and the Amorites call it Senir),[d] 10 all the cities of the plateau, all of Gilead and Bashan as far as Salecah[e] and Edrei,[f] cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 3:8 sn Mount Hermon. This is the famous peak at the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon mountain range known today as Jebel es-Sheik.
  2. Deuteronomy 3:9 sn Sidonians were Phoenician inhabitants of the city of Sidon (now in Lebanon), about 47 mi (75 km) north of Mount Carmel.
  3. Deuteronomy 3:9 sn Sirion. This name is attested in the Ugaritic texts as sryn. See UT 495.
  4. Deuteronomy 3:9 sn Senir. Probably this was actually one of the peaks of Hermon and not the main mountain (Song of Songs 4:8; 1 Chr 5:23). It is mentioned in a royal inscription of Shalmaneser III of Assyria (saniru; see ANET 280).
  5. Deuteronomy 3:10 sn Salecah. Today this is known as Salkhad, in Jordan, about 31 mi (50 km) east of the Jordan River in the Hauran Desert.
  6. Deuteronomy 3:10 sn Edrei. See note on this term in 3:1.
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