AGAINST MOAB Moab, in recompense for its pride and security, and for its triumphing over Israel in the day of her calamity, shall itself be laid waste and taken captive: cp. the 'burden of Moab 'in Isaiah 15, 16.... [ Continue Reading ]
NEBO] not the mountain, but the Reubenite town (Numbers 32:38), which had been annexed by Mesha, king of Moab (about 895 b.C.), according to the 'Moabite Stone 'records. Several places mentioned in this chapter have not been certainly identified.... [ Continue Reading ]
HESHBON] an Ammonite town on the border of Moab, where the Chaldean invaders would lay their final plans. MADMEN] a place unknown.... [ Continue Reading ]
RV 'For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up.'... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HEATH] see on Jeremiah 17:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHEMOSH] the god of Moab's national worship.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE VALLEY] of Jordan, bounding part of Moab on the W.... [ Continue Reading ]
DECEITFULLY] RV 'negligently.'Moab's foe must not be slack in executing God's command.... [ Continue Reading ]
SETTLED ON HIS LEES] i.e. like wine which has remained undisturbed and not lost its flavour. LEES means sediment. Moab had retained its strength, but it was not to last.... [ Continue Reading ]
WANDERERS, THAT SHALL CAUSE HIM TO WANDER] RV 'them that pour off, and they shall pour him off.'The figure of jars of wine is continued. They are emptied by being tilted on one side, an operation that was performed slowly and carefully, that the jars might be safe and the wine run off clear, while t... [ Continue Reading ]
BETHEL] the southern seat of the idolatrous worship introduced by Jeroboam (1 Kings 12:29).... [ Continue Reading ]
AND GONE UP _out of her_ CITIES] RM 'and her cities are gone up _in smoke?_... [ Continue Reading ]
COME DOWN] Dibon stands on two hills.... [ Continue Reading ]
HORN] symbol of strength and pride.... [ Continue Reading ]
WAS HE FOUND AMONG THIEVES] that he merited SUCH treatment. SINCE] RV 'as often as.'... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT, etc.] RV 'that it is nought; his boastings have wrought nothing.'... [ Continue Reading ]
Cp. Isaiah 16:8; Isaiah 16:9. WITH] RV 'with more than.' PLANTS] RV 'branches.'Sibmah seems to have been famous for its vineyards. OVER THE SEA] as far as the W. shore of the Dead Sea. JAZER] N. of Heshbon. Near its ruins are two large ponds.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Their_ SHOUTING, etc.] The vintage shout shall be changed to the cry of panic.... [ Continue Reading ]
Pipes] They were used at funerals, so that the word is appropriate to express mourning.... [ Continue Reading ]
All shall have the usual emblems of mourning: cp. Jeremiah 47:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
Vessel] see on Jeremiah 22:28.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SHALL FLY] i.e. the Chaldean power.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY THAT FLED.. FORCE] RV 'They that fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon.'While the fugitives of Moab wait in hope of aid under the walls of the Ammonite city, there bursts forth from it a flame kindled by the Chaldean foe like that which in old days was kindled at the same plac... [ Continue Reading ]
For the note of comfort at the end of the prophecy cp. Jeremiah 46:26; Jeremiah 49:6.... [ Continue Reading ]