Isaiah 15:8

For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim. EGLAIM () - Eneglaim Not the Agallim of Eusebius 8 miles from Areopolis toward the south The EGLAIM () - Eneglaim. Not the Agallim of Eusebius, 8 miles from Areopolis toward the south. The context requires a town on the very borders of Moab or beyond them. BEER-ELIM - literally, The well of the princes (so ), beyond the eastern borders of Moab....

8._The cry is gone round about the borders of Moab. _(245) כי, (_ki_,) _for_, is added for the sake of ornament. He means that every part of that country all around shall be full of _crying _and _howling_; because that destruction reaches from one extremity to another. Besides the _crying _he twice mentions the _howling_, to denote the excess of grief, as men who are in despair surrender themselves entirely to lamentation....

FOR THE CRY IS GONE ROUND ABOUT ... - The cry of distress and calamity has encompassed the whole land of Moab. There is no part of the land which is not filled with lamentation and distress. THE HOWLING - The voice of wailing on account of the distress. UNTO EGLAIM - This was a city of Moab east of the Dead Sea, which, Eusebius says, was eight miles south of Ar, and hence, says Rosenmuller, it was not far from the south border of Moab. It is mentioned by Josephus (“Ant.” xiv. 1), as one of the twelve cities in that region which was overthrown by Alexander the Great. UNTO BEER-ELIM - literally, “the well of the princes.” Perhaps the same as that mentioned in Numbers 21:14, as being in the land of Moab, and near to Ar:...

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

FOR THE CRY IS GONE FOUND ABOUT THE BORDERS OF MOAB,.... The cry of destruction and howling because of it; the places mentioned, as is observed by some, being upon the borders of the land. Heshbon was on the north east, Elealeh on the north west, Jahaz on the south west, Horonaim further west, Zoar the utmost west, and the places following seem to be upon the borders likewise: THE HOWLING THEREOF UNTO EGLAIM; which word signifies a border, and so the Arabic word Agalon; some take it to be the same with the brooks of Arnon, Numbers 21:13 said so be the border of Moab: AND THE HOWLING THEREOF UNTO BEERELIM; the same with Beer, Numbers 21:16 called Beerelim, or "the well of the mighty ones", being dug by the princes of Israel,...

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 ...

EGLAIM. Not identified; probably the _En-eglaim_ of Ezekiel 47:10....

The flight of the Moabites....

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 the scene: he repeats again in this place the proposition, and supplies by a general declaration what he might seem not to have expressed with sufficient perfection before: he therefore declares, that this lamentation of which he speaks shall not be private, and peculiar to one place, or to a few, but common to all; and that the tempest should not break upon this or that part of the country only, but should afflict all Moab, every corner and boundary of it; for this cry, this sorrowful howling, is said _to go round,_ to _encompass all the borders_ and extreme boundaries of Moab, and to take in the whole _from Eglaim to Beer-elim,_ two cities in the extremities of Moab. He adds in the 9th ve...