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1 Chronicles 5:7-8 -

Of Jeiel, Zechariah, Bela , and Asaz nothing further is known. Shema and Joel may be those of verse 4, as above. The expression, his brethren, i.e. the brethren of Beerah, must be read generally. The intimation, when the genealogy of their generations was reckoned , is probably explained by the contents of verse 17 (of which hereafter). Aroer ( עֲרֹעֵר or עְרוֹעֵר ); a place east of the Jordan, overhanging the torrent of Arnon, which was a boundary between Moab and the Amorites, and afterwards between Moab and Reuben. There is little doubt that Burckhardt has identified the ruins of Aroer (see Numbers 32:38 ; Deuteronomy 2:24 , Deuteronomy 2:36 ; Deuteronomy 3:8 , Deuteronomy 3:12 , Deuteronomy 3:16 ; Joshua 12:1 , Joshua 12:2 ; Joshua 13:9 , Joshua 13:16 ; 11:13 , 11:26 , where note transposition of letters in the Hebrew; 2 Kings 10:33 ). Moab seems to have regained it later ( Jeremiah 48:1-47 ; see interesting arts. "Amen" and "Areer," Smith's' Bible Dictionary'). Nebo and Baal - meon are also mentioned together in Numbers 32:38 ; and Baal-meon with Moab in Ezekiel 25:9 . This Nebo, the town , is distinct from Mount Nebo. It is remarkable that it is not mentioned, unless under one of the "changed" names ( Numbers 32:38 ), in the list of the towns of Reuben ( Joshua 13:15-23 ). Nebo was the name of a heathen deity, known among the Chaldeans ( Isaiah 46:1 ), Babylonians, and Assyrians; and this constituted one reason, if not the reason, for changing its name when it had been affixed to the Moabite city.

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