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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 15:7

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.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 15:7. "Shall perish"] אבדו _abadu_ or אבדה _abadeh_. This word seems to have been lost out of the text: it is supplied by the parallel place, Jeremiah 48:36. The _Syriac_ expresses it by...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEREFORE, THE ABUNDANCE THEY HAVE GOTTEN - Their wealth they shall remove from a place that is utterly burned up with drought, where the waters and the grass fail, to another place where they may fin...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 15 The Burden of Moab _ The Destruction Announced (Isaiah 15:1)_...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BROOK OF THE WILLOWS: or valley of the Arabians. Probably the _Wady-el-Ahsy_ separating Kerek from Djebal, or the brook Zered of Deuteronomy 2:13; Deuteronomy 2:14....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The flight of the Moabites....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    (Jeremiah 48:36.) The fugitives have now reached the border of their own land, and prepare to cross into Edom. The boundary between the two countries was formed by the Wadi el-Ahsa ("valley of water-p...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    MY HEART SHALL CRY OUT FOR MOAB— Hitherto the prophet had set forth the lamentation of the Moabites; but seeing these future evils as it were present to his own mind, he compassionates their griefs, a...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows. THEREFORE - Because of the devastation of the land. THE ABUNDANCE T...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The enemy attacked from the north. The people from Moab ran away from them to the south. Like all *refugees in times of war, they tried to carry a few possessions with them. • The ‘Stream of the Tree...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    עַל ־כֵּ֖ן יִתְרָ֣ה עָשָׂ֑ה וּ פְקֻדָּתָ֔ם עַ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XVII ISAIAH TO THE FOREIGN NATIONS 736-702 B.C. Isaiah 14:24; Isaiah 15:1; Isaiah 16:1; Isaiah 17:1;...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Therefore the abundance they have gained, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the (i) brook of the willows. (i) To hide themselves and their goods there....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Willows. That is, as some say, the waters of Babylon; others render it a valley of the Arabians, (Challoner) or "of crows," to which their bodies will be exposed, chap. lvii. 6._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Everything contained in these verses is like the Prophet's roll, written within, and without, and full of nothing else but lamentation, and mourning, and woe. Alas! what an awful thing must it be, to...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    7._Therefore what every one hath left. _(244) This corresponds to the ordinary expression, (_Ce qu’il aura espargne _,) _Whatever he shall have spared_. He means the riches that are laid up, and descr...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEREFORE THE ABUNDANCE THEY HAVE GOTTEN, AND THAT WHICH THEY HAVE LAID UP,.... The great substance which the Moabites had got, and hoarded up: SHALL THEY CARRY AWAY TO THE BROOK OF THE WILLOWS; eith...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows. Ver. 7. _Therefore the abundance they have gotten._] Here the prophet se...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _For the waters_, &c. The prophet, in these verses, sets forth the causes of lamentation among the inhabitants of the southern part of Moab. The first is the desolation of their fruitful fields, Isaia...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PROPHECY AGAINST MOAB....

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    BROOK OF THE WILLOWS: Or, valley of the Arabians...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SHALL THEY, to wit, their enemies, which is plainly implied, CARRY AWAY TO THE BROOK OF THE WILLOWS; unto some brook or river having great numbers of willows growing by it, by which they might convey...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 15:7 abundance H3502 gained H6213 (H8804) up H6486 away H5375 (H8799) Brook H5158 Willows H6155...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Therefore such wealth as they have accumulated, And that which they have laid up, They will carry away, To the Brook of the Willows.' Their only hope is escape across the border. This is the sad s...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 15:1 The third oracle concerns Moab. Jeremiah 48:1 parallels and expands this passage....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 10:14; Isaiah 10:6; Isaiah 5:29; Nahum 2:12; Nahum 2:13;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    They — Their enemies. Brook — Possibly he means some such river which ran into Euphrates, and so gave them opportunity of carrying their spoils by water unto Babylon....

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