Deuteronomy 3:17

The plain also, and Jordan ,.... The plain by Jordan, the plains of Moab on the side of it, together with the river:

and the coast thereof ; the country adjoining to it:

from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea ; that is, from Gennesaret, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, called the land of Gennesaret, Matthew 14:34 , from thence to the sea of Sodom, the sea of the plain, where the cities of the plain stood, Sodom, Gomorrah, &c.; and the salt sea, so called from the salt and nitrous waters of it, the lake Asphaltites:

under Ashdothpisgah eastward ; mentioned among the cities given to the tribe of Reuben, Joshua 13:20 rendered "the springs of Pisgah", Deuteronomy 4:49 , the word having the signification of effusions, pourings out; so the Targums.