Ezekiel 25:9

open the side Lit. the shoulderof Moab, i.e. the border or territory of Moab conceived as looking towards other countries, as "shoulder" has hardly reference to the shape of the Moabite territory (Isaiah 11:14). To open the side is to give invaders access to the country (Nahum 3:13).

from the cities … frontiers Perhaps: atthe cities, at his cities in every quarter. The prep. fromseems to indicate position, byor onthe cities, i.e. where they are. Others take it in a privative sense: stript ofthe cities. The three towns named are given as examples of the glory of Moab. Beth-Jeshimoth lay at the N.E. of the head of the Dead Sea, Numbers 33:49; Joshua 12:3; Joshua 13:20; it is supposed to be Suweimeh, at the mouth of the Jordan. Baal-meon, Numbers 32:3; Numbers 32:38, more fully Beth-baal-meon (Joshua 13:17), and in another form, Bethmeon (Jeremiah 48:23), lay further inland, a little S. of Heshbon; supposed to be Mâ-in. Kirjathaim lay somewhat further south (Numbers 32:37; Joshua 13:19; Jeremiah 48:1; Jeremiah 48:23); supposed to be El Kureyat.