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 BROUGHT TO SILENCE, made desolate and annihilated; BECAUSE IN THE NIGHT KIR OF MOAB IS LAID WASTE AND... [ Continue Reading ]
PROPHECY AGAINST MOAB.... [ Continue Reading ]
He, rather the impersonal one, standing collectively for all the inhabitants of Moab, IS GONE UP TO BAJITH, to the house of the temple, AND TO DIBON, a city not far from the Arnon, THE HIGH PLACES, TO WEEP, before the altars of the country's idols. MOAB SHALL HOWL OVER NEBO AND OVER MEDEBA, rather,... [ Continue Reading ]
In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth, thus exhibiting their grief openly; ON THE TOPS OF THEIR HOUSES, which are flat in the Orient, AND IN THEIR STREETS EVERY ONE SHALL HOWL, weeping abundantly, being dissolved in tears.... [ Continue Reading ]
And Heshbon, a former Amorite city, but regarded as belonging to Moab, SHALL CRY, AND ELEALEH, near Heshbon, within the boundaries of Reuben; THEIR VOICE SHALL BE HEARD EVEN UNTO JAHAZ, another town of this district; THEREFORE THE ARMED SOLDIERS OF MOAB SHALL CRY OUT, impelled thereto by the greatne... [ Continue Reading ]
My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old, literally, "whose bolts (extended) to Zoar, the three-year-old heifer," that is, the locks or fortified boundaries of Moab reached as far as Zoar, the city of Lot's refuge, on the peninsula extending i... [ Continue Reading ]
For the waters of Nimrim, known for the freshness of their springs, SHALL BE DESOLATE, filled with earth or rubbish by the invaders; FOR THE HAY IS WITHERED AWAY, THE GRASS FAILETH, THERE IS NO GREEN THING, the entire land being devastated, the vegetation drying up for want of care, and the crops ap... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore, on account of the destruction of their land, THE ABUNDANCE THEY HAVE GOTTEN, above and beyond their needs, AND THAT WHICH THEY HAVE LAID UP, by careful saving, SHALL THEY CARRY AWAY TO THE BROOK OF THE WILLOWS, a small stream on their southern boundary, which the Moabite fugitives forded... [ Continue Reading ]
For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab, thus filling their entire country; THE HOWLING THEREOF UNTO EGLAIM, a town near the Dead Sea, AND THE HOWLING THEREOF UNTO BEER-ELIM, in northeastern Moabitis, that is, the cry of distress reaches from one end of the country to the other.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 reference being either to another enemy among foreign nations or to wild animals whom the Lord would sen... [ Continue Reading ]