Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 15:4
Heshbon — Two other Moabitish cities. Jahaz — Another city in the utmost borders of Moab. Soldiers — Who use to be the most courageous.
Heshbon — Two other Moabitish cities. Jahaz — Another city in the utmost borders of Moab. Soldiers — Who use to be the most courageous.
Verse Isaiah 15:4. _THE ARMED SOLDIERS _- "The very loins"] So the _Septuagint_, ἡ οσφυς, and the _Syriac_. They cry out violently, with their utmost force....
AND HESHBON SHALL CRY - This was a celebrated city of the Amorites, twenty miles east of the Jordan Joshua 13:17. It was formerly conquered from the Moabiltes by Sihon, and became his capital, and was...
CHAPTER 15 The Burden of Moab _ The Destruction Announced (Isaiah 15:1)_...
THE OVERTHROW OF MOAB. A sudden catastrophe has overwhelmed Ar (Numbers 21:15 *) and Kir in one night. The daughter (read _bath_ for Bayith; _cf_. Jeremiah 48:18) of Dibon (Numbers 21:30 *) has gone u...
HESHBON. Now _Heshoan._ The capital of the Amorites. Rebuilt by Reuben (Numbers 32:37). CRY. cry in pain. ELEALEH. Nowel' Al, near Heshbon. Compare Isaiah 16:9; Numbers 32:3;...
(Cf. Jeremiah 48:34.) _Heshbon_and _Elealeh_(often mentioned together) are respectively about 4 and 6 miles N.E. of Nebo. Heshbon, once the capital of the Amorites (Numbers 21:26) and afterwards an Is...
The wailing of Moab....
B. IMPUDENT EASTERNERS - Chapter S 15-17 CHAPTER FIFTEEN 1. MOAB a. INVASION TEXT: Isaiah 15:1-9 1 The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nought; for in a nig...
And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him. HESHBON - an Amorite city,...
HIS LIFE, etc.] RV 'his soul trembleth within him.'...
1. BURDEN] see on Isaiah 13:1. BECAUSE.. NIGHT] RV 'For in a night.' AR OF MOAB] i.e. city of Moab. The capital (Numbers 22:36; Joshua 13:16) is doubtless meant. The places referred to in the chapter...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 15 GOD WILL PUNISH MOAB V1 God gave Isaiah this special message abo...
וַ תִּזְעַ֤ק חֶשְׁבֹּון֙ וְ אֶלְעָלֵ֔ה עַד ־י
CHAPTER XVII ISAIAH TO THE FOREIGN NATIONS 736-702 B.C. Isaiah 14:24; Isaiah 15:1; Isaiah 16:1; Isaiah 17:1;...
In this section we have three prophecies: concerning Assyria Isaiah 14:24), concerning Philistia Isaiah 14:28), and the commencement of one concerning Moab (15). This fragment concerning Assyria consi...
_Itself. Every one shall deplore his own distress._...
Here is a sad account of Moab! And in order to enter into a full apprehension of the history, we must consult the scripture account concerning this people. If we look back to the original settlement o...
4._And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh. _Here he names other cities; for his design is to bind up, as it were, in a bundle all the cities of that country, that they may be involved in the general destr...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 15, 16, 17, AND 18. In Chapter s 15 and 16 Moab is judged. They are warned that the throne of David shall be established, and the oppressor consumed out of th...
AND HESHBON SHALL CRY, AND ELEALEH,.... Two other cities in the land of Moab. The first of these was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who took it from the Moabites, Numbers 21:25 it came into t...
_And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard [even] unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him._ Ver. 4. _And Heshbon shall...
_And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh_ Two other Moabitish cities; of which see Numbers 21:25; Numbers 32:3; Numbers 32:37. _Their voice shall be heard unto Jahaz_ Another city in the utmost borders of...
And Heshbon, a former Amorite city, but regarded as belonging to Moab, SHALL CRY, AND ELEALEH, near Heshbon, within the boundaries of Reuben; THEIR VOICE SHALL BE HEARD EVEN UNTO JAHAZ, another town o...
PROPHECY AGAINST MOAB....
HESHBON AND ELEALEH; two other Moabitish cities; of which see NUMBERS 21:25,26 NUMBERS 32:3,37. JAHAZ another city in the utmost borders of Moab, NUMBERS 21:23, called also _Jahazah_,...
Isaiah 15:4 Heshbon H2809 Elealeh H500 out H2199 (H8799) voice H6963 heard H8085 (H8738) Jahaz H3096 soldiers...
‘In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth. On their housetops and in their broad places, Everyone howls, Weeping abundantly (literally ‘going down in weeping'). And Heshbon cries out,...
CONTENTS: The burden of Moab. Prophecy of great desolations upon the earth. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Great and dismal changes may in the providence of God be made within a very short tim...
Isaiah 15:1. _The burden of Moab._ Joshua had spared this nation by divine command, being, as descendants of Lot, relatives of the Hebrews. Deuteronomy 2:9. But they made no returns: Eglon king of Moa...
_The harden of Moab_ THE MOABITE STONE From the inscription of Mesha (c. 900 B.C.), found at Dibon in 1869, and commonly known as the “Moabite stone,” we learn that the Moabites spoke a language dif...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 15:1 The third oracle concerns Moab. Jeremiah 48:1 parallels and expands this passage....
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 15:1 THE BURDEN OF MOAB. The present chapter and the next are very closely connected, and may be regarded as together constituting "the burden of Moab." It has been argued on critic...
Now in chapter 15, he turns his attention against Moab, that area that lies just east of the Jordan and of the Dead Sea. And he begins to speak of the destruction of Moab and of some of the major citi...
1 Kings 19:4; Deuteronomy 2:32; Genesis 27:46; Isaiah 16:8; Isaiah 16:9