Deuteronomy 3:9

Sirion Elsewhere called mount Gilead, and Lebanon, and here Shenir, and Sirion, which several names were given to this one mountain, partly by several people, and partly in regard of several tops and parts of it.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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(which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir,)
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⁹ (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)

Related Commentaries of Deuteronomy 3:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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