Isaiah 15:9

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 waters are the Arnon. SHALL BE FULL OF BLOOD - the slain of Moab shall be so many. FOR I WILL BRING MORE UPON DIMON - fresh calamities; namely, LIONS UPON HIM THAT ESCAPETH OF MOAB - (; ; .) Vitringa understands Nebuchadnezzar as meant by 'the lion;' but it is plural, "lions." The "more," or in Hebrew additions, he explains of the addition made to the waters of Dimon by the...

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 slaughter of men. How great must this have been, when large and magnificent rivers, such as _Dimon _was, are _filled with blood _! _For I will lay upon Dimon additions. _(247) By _additions _he means that the Lord, in whose name he speaks, will multiply the murders; so that the dead bodies shall be heaped up, and there shall be no end to cruelty and slaying. Now, though the Assyrians were cruel in this slaughter, yet the Lord was not cruel; for he justly punished the barbarity of the Moabites which they basely exercised towards the Jews, on whom they ought to have had compassion. It was right that they should suffer the same punishment which t

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 indifferent. _UPON HIM THAT ESCAPETH OF MOAB_, c. - "Upon the escaped of Moab, and Ariel, and the remnant of Admah."] The _Septuagint_ for עריה _aryeh_ read אריאל _ariel_. Ar Moab was called also Ariel or Areopolis, _Hieron_. and _Theodoret_. See _Cellarius_. They make אדמה _Admah_ also a proper name. Michaelis thinks that the Moabites might be called the remnant of Admah, as sprung from Lot and his daughters, escaped from the destruction of that and the other cities or, metaphorically, as the Jews are called princes of Sodom, and people of Gomorrah,...

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 interchanged in oriental dialects (see the note at Isaiah 15:2). SHALL BE FULL OF BLOOD - That is, the number of the slain of Moab shall be so great, that the blood shall color the waters of the river - a very common occurrence in times of great slaughter. Perhaps by the “waters” of Dimon the prophet does not mean the river Arnon, but the small rivulets or streams that might flow into it near to the city of Dibon. Probably there were winter brooks there, which do not run at all seasons. The Chaldee renders it, ‘The waters of Dimon shall be full of bloo

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 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 take it to be the name of a city, and the same with Dibon, Isaiah 15:2 but, because of the abundance of blood shed in it, got this new name; and the Vulgate Latin version here calls it Dibon; and the Syriac version Ribon; and the Arabic version Remmon: FOR I WILL BRING MORE UPON DIMON; or "additions" r, not merely add blood to the waters of the river, as Jarchi and Kimchi; but bring additional evils and plagues, as Aben Ezra. The Targum interprets it, "the congregation of an army;'' but what these additions were are explained in the next clause: LIONS UPON HIM THAT ESCAPETH OF MOAB, AND UPON THE REMNANT OF THE LAND; or a

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 ...

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 _Synecdoche_ (of Species), for all wild beasts....

The flight of the Moabites....