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 are in Moabite territory. SILENCE] RV 'nought.' KIR] probably Kerak, a fortress on the Dead Sea.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 1869. NEBO] not the mountain (Deuteronomy 34:1), but a Moabite city in its vicinity, thought to be... [ Continue Reading ]
HIS LIFE, etc.] RV 'his soul trembleth within him.'... [ Continue Reading ]
FUGITIVES] RV 'her nobles.' AN HEIFER OF THREE YEARS OLD] i.e. not broken in: implying that the place was hitherto impregnable. Places are thus sometimes compared to animals (Jeremiah 46:20; Hosea 4:16; Hosea 10:11). Most modern scholars, however, understand the words as a proper name 'to Eglath-she... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALL BE DESOLATE] because they have been stopped at the source (2 Kings 3:19; 2 Kings 3:25). HAY.. GRASS] RV 'grass.. tender grass.'... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BROOK OF THE WILLOWS] Evidently mentioned as the boundary of the land and generally identified with the brook Zered (Numbers 21:2; Deuteronomy 2:13). The fugitives are pictured as carrying their possessions to the border for safety.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CRY] i.e. of destruction (Isaiah 15:5). No part of the land escapes.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WATERS OF DIMON] i.e. the Axnon. DIMON is probably a symbolical variation for Dibon, adopted because the sound of it suggests blood (_dam_). LIONS] perhaps to be understood literally (2 Kings 17:25), or it may stand metaphorically for invading foes: Jeremiah 4:7; Jeremiah 5:6. MOAB'S CALAMITY A... [ Continue Reading ]