And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.
And Moab was sore afraid of the people. The presence of so vast a multitude, and the irresistible rapidity of their conquests in the adjoining kingdoms, naturally diffused a panic throughout the country of Moab; and this feeling of dismay had been predicted (Exodus 15:15; Deuteronomy 2:25).
And Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel. The addition of this clause being tautological, Michaelis and Hengstenberg take the verb х quwts (H6972)] in its primary signification, to loathe, to be disgusted, or wearied of a thing (Numbers 21:5: cf. Genesis 27:46). The Septuagint translates prosoochthise Mooab, was indignant, but Gesenius shows that the idea of loathing in several verbs is also transferred to that of fear.