Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 15:9
More — More than hath been already mentioned. Lions — God shall send lions to find out those that escape the fury of men.
More — More than hath been already mentioned. Lions — God shall send lions to find out those that escape the fury of men.
Verse Isaiah 15:9. _THE WATERS OF DIMON_] Some have _Dibon_, others have _Ribon_ and _Rimon_. _St. Jerome_ observes that the same town was called both _Dibon_ and _Dimon_. The reading is therefore ind...
FOR THE WATERS OF DIMON - Probably the same as “Dibon” Isaiah 15:2. Eusobius says it was a large town on the northern bank of the river Arnon. Jerome says that the letters “m and b” are often intercha...
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...
DIMON. Probably _Umm Deineh_, east of the Dead Sea. DIMON. BLOOD. Note Figure of speech _Paronomasia_. Hebrew. _Dimon_. _dam_. MORE. more [howlings]. LIONS. a lion. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdo...
The flight of the Moabites....
_the waters of Dimon Dimon_is generally supposed to be another form of _Dibon_, chosen for the sake of an alliteration with the word for "blood" (_dâm_). The conjecture may be taken for what it is wor...
FOR THE CRY IS GONE ROUND, &C.— The prophet contemplating, with the most lively imagination, the motion and consternation of all Moab, as if present to his view, scarcely satisfies himself in painting...
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...
For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land. THE WATERS OF DIMON. Same as Dibon, . Its...
THE WATERS OF DIMON] i.e. the Axnon. DIMON is probably a symbolical variation for Dibon, adopted because the sound of it suggests blood (_dam_). LIONS] perhaps to be understood literally (2 Kings 17:2...
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...
כִּ֣י מֵ֤י דִימֹון֙ מָ֣לְאוּ דָ֔ם כִּֽי ־אָשׁ
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...
For the waters of Dimon shall be full (k) of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions (l) upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land. (k) Of them who are slain. (l) So th...
_Dibon. Septuagint, &c., read, "Dimon," which signifies, "blood." I will give it a better claim to this appellation. --- Lion. Nabuchodonosor. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "I will bring the Arabs up on Di...
Everything contained in these verses is like the Prophet's roll, written within, and without, and full of nothing else but lamentation, and mourning, and woe. Alas! what an awful thing must it be, to...
REFLECTIONS READER, in the history of Moab, behold the history of every man by nature, exposed to the just judgment of God, the curse of his broken law, and all the terrors, which will one day fall up...
9._For the waters of Dimon shall be filled with blood. _(246) Here he describes not only _grief _and _howling_, flight or trembling, or the covetousness of enemies in plundering their wealth, but the...
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...
FOR THE WATERS OF DIMON SHALL BE FULL OF BLOOD,.... Of the slain, as the Targum adds. This was a river in the land of Moab, as say Jarchi and Kimchi; it had its name from the blood of the slain, Some...
For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land. Ver. 9. _For the waters of Dimon shall be ful...
_For the waters of Dimon_ This seems to be the same place with Dibon, mentioned Isaiah 15:2; _shall be full of blood_ This is a third evil, and cause of lamentation; the great slaughter which the enem...
For the waters of Dimon, the river Arnon, SHALL BE FULL OF BLOOD; FOR I WILL BRING MORE UPON DIMON, further misfortune, LIONS UPON HIM THAT ESCAPETH OF MOAB, AND UPON THE REMNANT OF THE LAND, the refe...
PROPHECY AGAINST MOAB....
MORE: _ Heb._ additions...
DIMON: this seems to be the same place with _Dibon_, mentioned ISAIAH 15:2, here called Dimon for the great bloodshed in it, as it here follows; such changes of a letter being not unusual in proper na...
Isaiah 15:9 waters H4325 Dimon H1775 full H4390 (H8804) blood H1818 bring H7896 (H8799) more H3254 ...
‘For the cry is gone round the borders of Moab, Its howling to Eglaim, and its howling to Beer-elim. For the waters of Dimon are full of blood, For I will bring yet more on Dimon, A lion on him wh...
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....
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 15:9 LION. The Moabites who escape their homeland will also be killed. ⇐...
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...
2 Kings 17:25; Amos 5:19; Jeremiah 15:3; Jeremiah 48:43; Leviti