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Isaiah 15:1
Isaiah mentions many places in this short chapter. So he shows how completely enemies had ruined the whole country called Moab.
Isaiah mentions many places in this short chapter. So he shows how completely enemies had ruined the whole country called Moab.
CHAPTER XV _Prediction of very heavy calamities about to fall upon the_ _Moabites_, 1-9. This and the following chapter, taken together, make one entire prophecy, very improperly divided into two...
THE BURDEN OF MOAB - (see the note at Isaiah 13:1). This is the title of the prophecy. The Chaldee renders this, ‘The burden of the cup of malediction which is to come upon Moab.’ BECAUSE IN THE NIGHT...
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...
BURDEN. The first of the seven burdens. BECAUSE. Surely. MOAB. Had been subdued by Saul (1 Samuel 14:47) and David (2 Samuel 8:2); and paid tribute to Ahab (2Ki 1:1. 2 Kings 3:4;...
The verse stands somewhat apart from the sequel of the poem. It announces the catastrophe which has placed the entire country at the mercy of the invaders, viz. the fall of the two chief cities of Moa...
THE BURDEN OF MOAB— In this and the next chapter, which contain the _third_ discourse, the prophet, in a most lively manner, foretels the fate of the Moabites; wherein we have, _first,_ the title pref...
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...
The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; Lowth thinks it was delivered in t...
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...
XV. (1) THE BURDEN OF MOAB. — The oracle which fills the next two Chapter s deals with the coming history of Moab. The comparative obscurity of that history, the names of towns and villages which it i...
מַשָּׂ֖א מֹואָ֑ב כִּ֠י בְּ לֵ֞יל שֻׁדַּ֨ד עָ֤
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...
The (a) burden of Moab. Because in the night (b) Ar of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to silence; (a) See Isaiah 13:1 (b)...
_Moab. Which would be visited in three years' time (chap. xvi. 14.) either by Ezechias, or by Sennacherib, though history be silent on this head. The Moabites had been very cruel, Amos i. and ii. ---...
CONTENTS The prophet here enters upon the subject of history: and a woeful account it is. Not a word of comfort through the whole....
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...
1._The burden of Moab. _Here the Prophet prophesies against the _Moabites_, who were neighbors to the Jews and related to them by blood; for we know that the _Moabites _were descended from Lot, who wa...
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...
THE BURDEN OF MOAB,.... A heavy, grievous prophecy, concerning the destruction of Moab. The Targum is, "the burden of the cup of cursing, to give Moab to drink.'' This seems to respect the destructi...
The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, [and] brought to silence; Ver. 1. _The burden of Moab._] A...
_The burden of Moab_ A prophecy of the destruction of the Moabites, the inveterate and implacable enemies of the Jews, begun by the Assyrian, and finished by the Babylonian monarchs. This prophecy, wh...
The burden, the sentence of judgment, OF MOAB, the nation descended from the elder daughter of Lot, occupying the country southeast of the Dead Sea. BECAUSE IN THE NIGHT AR OF MOAB IS LAID WASTE AND B...
PROPHECY AGAINST MOAB....
BROUGHT TO SILENCE: Or, cut off...
ISAIAH CHAPTER 15 The destruction of Moab. THE BURDEN OF MOAB; a prophecy of the destruction of the Moabites, the inveterate and implacable enemies of the Jews, begun by the Assyrian, and finished by...
Isaiah 15:1 burden H4853 Moab H4124 night H3915 Ar H6144 Moab H4124 waste H7703 (H8795) destroyed H1820 ...
‘The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste, It is brought to nought. For in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste. It is brought to nought. He is gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, T...
MOAB This "burden" had a precursive fulfilment in Sennacherib's invasion, B.C. 704, three years after the prediction (Isaiah 16:14) but the words have a breadth of meaning which includes also the fin...
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 Thessalonians 5:1; 2 Kings 3:25; Amos 2:1; Deuteronomy 2:18;...
The burden — A prophecy of the destruction of the Moabites, the inveterate enemies of the Jews, begun by the Assyrian, and finished by the Babylonian emperors. In a night — Suddenly and unexpectedly....