Darby's translation notes (1890)
Isaiah 15:2
15:2 Bajith, (b-6) Some take Bajith as an appellative, reading 'to the house,' i.e. the house of his god.
15:2 Bajith, (b-6) Some take Bajith as an appellative, reading 'to the house,' i.e. the house of his god.
Verse Isaiah 15:2. _HE IS GONE TO BAJITH, AND TO DIBON_] עלה הבית _alah_ _habbayith_, should be rendered, _he is gone to the HOUSE_, i.e., to their chief temple, where they practiced idolatry. Dibon...
HE IS GONE UP - That is, the inhabitants of Moab in consternation have fled from their ruined cities, and have gone up to other places to weep. TO BAJITH, AND TO DIBON - Lowth supposes that these two...
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...
HE: i.e. Moab. DIBON. Now _Dhiban._ Numbers 21:30; Numbers 32:3; Numbers 32:34; Numbers 33:46;...
(Cf. Jeremiah 48:37) _He is gone up … to weep_ The sense of the clause is uncertain. If _Bayith_be a proper name the best rendering would be that of R.V. marg. BAYITH AND DIBON ARE GONE UP TO THE HIGH...
The wailing of Moab....
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...
He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off. HE - Moab personified....
HE IS GONE, etc.] i.e. the Moabite people. BAJITH] 'the house,' i.e. the temple of the Moabite deity, Chemosh. DIBON] here the Moabite Stone, with inscription by king Mesha (2 Kings 3:4), was found in...
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...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 15 GOD WILL PUNISH MOAB V1 God gave Isaiah this special message abo...
For people to shave the head was a sign that they were very sad....
HE IS GONE UP TO BAJITH... — The noun is better taken not as a proper name, but as “the house” or “temple” of the Moabite god. In this and in the “high places” (_Bamôth_) we may probably recognise the...
עָלָ֨ה הַ בַּ֧יִת וְ דִיבֹ֛ן הַ בָּמֹ֖ות
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...
(c) He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall wail over (d) Nebo, and over Medeba: on all (e) their heads [shall be] baldness, [and] every beard shorn. (c) The Moabi...
_House. Protestants, "he is come up to Baith," (Haydock) or the royal family is gone to the temple of their idol, Chamos, to lament. (St. Jerome) (Menochius) (Calmet) --- Shaven. As in mourning, Jerem...
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...
2._He shall go up into the house. _(236) So far as relates to the words, some pass by the Hebrew noun בית, (_baith_;) but as it signifies _a house _and _a temple_, it is probable that it was the word...
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...
HE IS GONE UP TO BAJITH,.... That is, Moab; the king or people of Moab, particularly the inhabitants of the above cities. Bajith signifies house; and here a house of idolatry, as Kimchi interprets it;...
He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads [shall be] baldness, [and] every beard cut off. Ver. 2. _He is gone up...
_He is gone up to Bajith_ Which signifies a house. It is supposed to be the name of a place, so called from some eminent house or temple of their idols which was in it; _and to Dibon_ Another city of...
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...
PROPHECY AGAINST MOAB....
BAJITH signifies _a house_. It is supposed to be the name of a place, so called from some eminent house or temple of their idols which was in it. It is called more fully _Bethbaal-meon_, that is, _The...
Isaiah 15:2 up H5927 (H8804) temple H1006 Dibon H1769 places H1116 weep H1065 Moab H4124 wail H3213 ...
‘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...
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...
_He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep_ THE HELPLESSNESS OF HEATHEN GODS We have a picture of men going to old altars, and finding there nothing but silence. Bajith may be...
_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....
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 15:2 ON EVERY HEAD IS BALDNESS... SACKCLOTH. An expression of mourning (see Isaiah 22:12;...
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...
Deuteronomy 14:1; Deuteronomy 34:1; Ezekiel 7:18; Isaiah 14:31;...
Bajith — Which signifies an house. It is supposed to be some eminent house or temple of their idols. Dibon — Another city of Moab. To weep — To offer their supplications with tears to their idols for...