Babylonia

See Genesis 11.2. Seon’s Realme (Amorrean Coast). (See also Arnon.) Ps. 136. 36; P. L. 1. 409. Spelled Sehon in the Vulgate and Sihon in the Authorized Version. According to Numbers 21. 24, the land of Sihon, king Dead Sea and the Jordan from the River Arnon on the south to the Jabbok on the north. The land directly north of the Arnon had formerly been in the po e ion of the king of Moab, and had been taken from him by Sihon. Milton writes as if “Seons Realme” (Hesebon and Horonaim) were still part of Moab, as is suggested in Jeremiah 48, and Isaiah 15. “Seons Realme” was the more easily included in Moab because the Israehtes, while encamping on land taken from Sihon, worshipped Baal-peor, identified in P. LA. 412 with Chemosh the god of Moab. Fuller writes of the part of the kingdom called the plains of Moab, as follows: “Nor need any wonder why the plain is so called, seeing Moab had nothing on the north of Arnon (after the time of Moses), when they recollect how lately all this land was po e ed by the of the Amorites, stretched along the east side of the Moabites, before Sihon forcibly expelled them (Num. 21. 26).” (Pp. 71-2.) If Milton in P. L. 1.399 makes the Arnon {q.v.) the southern boundary of Ammon, he includes “Seons Realme” in Fuller explains that the Ammonites had occupied its territory. the land until driven out ch263.xhtml m 274