Isaiah 15:7

Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows. THEREFORE - Because of the devastation of the land. THE ABUNDANCE THEY HAVE GOTTEN - Hebrew, yitraah (H3502), 'left;' i:e., that which is over and above the necessaries of life. SHALL THEY CARRY AWAY TO THE BROOK OF THE WILLOWS. The fugitives flee from Nimrim, where the waters have failed, to places better watered. Hebrew, nachal ha'arabim: margin, 'valley of the Arabians' - i:e. to the valley on the boundary between them and Arabia Petrea; now Wady-el-Arabah. Arabia means a desert....

7._Therefore what every one hath left. _(244) This corresponds to the ordinary expression, (_Ce qu’il aura espargne _,) _Whatever he shall have spared_. He means the riches that are laid up, and describes what usually happens in countries which are invaded by an enemy. All the inhabitants are wont to convey their riches elsewhere, and to lay them up in some safe place, that they may afterwards bring them back when peace has been restored. _To the brook of the willows. _He means that they will have no storehouse, no fortress in which they can lay them up with safety; so that they will be compelled to hide them among _the willows_. This certainly is the lowest wretchedness, when the enemy is attacking us, and we can find no storehouse for laying up those things which we have collected with great industry. These _willows _were probably situated in some remote and sequestered place.

Verse Isaiah 15:7. "Shall perish"] אבדו _abadu_ or אבדה _abadeh_. This word seems to have been lost out of the text: it is supplied by the parallel place, Jeremiah 48:36. The _Syriac_ expresses it by עבר _aber, praeteriit_, "he hath passed;" and the _Chaldee_ by יתבזזון _yithbazezun, diripientur_. _TO THE BROOK OF THE WILLOWS _- "To the valley of willows"] That is, to Babylon. _Hieron_. and _Jarchi in loc_., both referring to Psalms 137:2. So likewise _Prideaux, Le Clerc_, c....

THEREFORE, THE ABUNDANCE THEY HAVE GOTTEN - Their wealth they shall remove from a place that is utterly burned up with drought, where the waters and the grass fail, to another place where they may find water. TO THE BROOK OF WILLOWS - Margin, ‘The valley of the Arabians.’ The Septuagint renders it, ‘I will lead them to the valley of the Arabians, and they shall take it.’ So Saadias. It might, perhaps, be called the valley of the Arabians, because it was the boundary line between them and Arabia on the south. Lowth renders it, ‘To Babylon.’ The probability is, that the prophet refers to some valley or brook that was called the brook of the willows, from the fact that many willows grew upon its bank. Perhaps it was the small stream which flows into the southern extremity of the Dead Sea, and which forms the boundary of Arabia Petrea of the province of Jebal. They withdrew toward the south,...

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 critical grounds that the bulk of the prophecy is quoted by Isaiah from an earlier writer, and that he has merely modified the wording and added a few touches here and there (so Gesenius, Rosenmüller, Hitzig, Maurer, Ewald, Knobel, and Cheyne). Jeremiah is thought to have also based his "judgment of Moab" (Jeremiah 48:1.) on the same early writing. But speculations of this kind are in the highest degree uncertain, and moreover lead to no results of the slightest importance. It is best, therefore, to regard Is

THEREFORE THE ABUNDANCE THEY HAVE GOTTEN, AND THAT WHICH THEY HAVE LAID UP,.... The great substance which the Moabites had got, and hoarded up: SHALL THEY CARRY AWAY TO THE BROOK OF THE WILLOWS; either the Moabites should carry their substance to some brook, it may be near Nimrim, where many willows grew, and cast it into the brook, or lay it by the brook side, in some private place, or under and among the willows, to preserve it from the enemy; or else the meaning is, that their enemies should take what they had with a great deal of labour got, and with a great deal of care had laid up, and carry it to the brook of the willows, some place without the city, and there divide it; or to the valley of the Arabians q, as some render it, some part of Arabia lying between Moab and Babylon, whither they might carry it, in order to the conveyance of it into their own country at a proper time: it...

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 up to the high places to lament; everywhere are signs of mourning. The cry of distress is heard from Heshbon (Numbers 21:25 *) and Elealeh (Numbers 32:37 *) in Jahaz (Numbers 21:23 *). The fugitives (_mg._) flee to Zoar ...

BROOK OF THE WILLOWS: or valley of the Arabians. Probably the _Wady-el-Ahsy_ separating Kerek from Djebal, or the brook Zered of Deuteronomy 2:13; Deuteronomy 2:14....

The flight of the Moabites....