Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 15

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Isaiah 15 . 1 , The lamentable state of Moab.

Isaiah 15:1

This is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night!

Isaiah 15:1 · BSB

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This and the following chapter form one entire prophecy; which was most probably delivered , as Bp. Lowth supposes , soon after the foregoing

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brought to silence or , cut off

Isaiah 15:2

Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.

Isaiah 15:2 · BSB

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Isaiah 15:3

In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.

Isaiah 15:3 · BSB

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Heb. descending into weeping; or , coming down with weeping

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Isaiah 15:4

Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out; their souls tremble within.

Isaiah 15:4 · BSB

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Isaiah 15:5

My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.

Isaiah 15:5 · BSB

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Heb. breaking

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his fugitives etc. or , to the borders thereof , even as an heifer

Isaiah 15:6

The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.

Isaiah 15:6 · BSB

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desolate Heb. desolations

Isaiah 15:7

So they carry their wealth and belongings over the Brook of the Willows.

Isaiah 15:7 · BSB

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brook of the willows or , valley of the Arabians

Isaiah 15:8

For their outcry echoes to the border of Moab. Their wailing reaches Eglaim; it is heard in Beer-elim.

Isaiah 15:8 · BSB

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  • Ezekiel 47:10 En-eglaim , Eglaim is called Agallim by Eusebius , who places it eight miles south from Ar or Areopolis

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Isaiah 15:9

The waters of Dimon are full of blood, but I will bring more upon Dimon—a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.

Isaiah 15:9 · BSB

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Dimon Some have Dibon; and Jerome says that the same town was called both Dibon and Dimon.

him Bp. Lowth , upon the authority of the LXX , renders , "upon the escaped of Moab , and Ariel , and the remnant of Admah.

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