Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 15:8
For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim.The cry — Their cry fills all the parts of the country. read more
Isaiah 15
John Wesley
John Wesley
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 15:9
For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.More — More than hath been already mentioned.Lions — God shall send lions to find out those that escape the fury of men. read more
Daniel Whedon
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 15
In close connexion with each other, chapter xv and xvi apply to Moab. As seen from the western hills in Palestine, Moab seems a high and level table land, with a cliff wall abutting precipitately down to the eastern water edge of the Dead Sea. As seen, however, in the land itself, this wall begins to fall off some five to eight miles back from the sea. The chasm of the Arnon, running westward to the sea, divides the plain in the centre, and south of this lay Moab proper, though the nation so... read more
Daniel Whedon
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 15:1
1. The burden of Moab “Burden,” here, may indicate “prophecy,” at first orally uttered, afterward written up. If an old prophecy has been a basis of utterance, it is now modified and adopted as Isaiah’s. See same case in Jeremiah 47:0, and a similar case in Isaiah 2:1-5. Because Hebrew, כי , ( ki,) elliptically, “it is that.” Gesenius renders it, verily. In the night… in the night Poetic repetition here possibly indicates a fact of frequent occurrence. As in these times in that... read more
Daniel Whedon
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 15:2-3
2, 3. He The collective people of Moab. Has gone up to Bajith This was probably not a town, but a high place for a sanctuary. The word is so near to Beth a house as to indicate only a temple, the house of Moab’s gods. Dibon Gesenius reads here, Dibon is weeping upon the high places. Dibon lay some fifteen miles north of the Arnon, and Nebo still farther north, to a point due east of the head of the Dead Sea. Medeba lay a few miles southeast from Nebo. Some went up to Nebo, some... read more
Daniel Whedon
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 15:4
4. Heshbon, and other cities north, and back to the south again, join in the cry. Heshbon, an ancient royal residence of the Amorites, (Numbers 21:26, seq.,) on falling into the hands of the Israelites, was assigned to Reuben, (Joshua 13:17;) then to Gad as a city of the Levites. Jahaz This place would seem to have lain eastward toward the desert, as may be inferred from Numbers 21:23, and Deuteronomy 2:32, for it was from there that Sihon marched down into the wilderness against the... read more
Daniel Whedon
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 15:5
5. My heart shall cry out The prophet himself enters into sympathy with the affrighted people, whose stampede is even to Zoar, with a terror like that of the bellowing heifer. Zoar was for long held to be at the south of Moab, or at the foot of the Dead Sea. So Josephus, Jerome, and Dr. Robinson. But more recently its location is thought to be identical with Zi’ara, near Mt. Nebo. But see TRISTRAM, Land of Moab; also, SMITH’S Bible Dictionary, pro and con. read more
Daniel Whedon
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 15:6
6. Nimrim For “Nimrim” see Numbers 31:35-36, and Joshua 12:27, whose indications are that this was a well-watered valley. Tristram, with some hesitation, locates it at the southeast end of the Dead Sea. The text shows that the waters here give out, and every green thing is parched a figure of devastating war. read more
Daniel Whedon
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 15:7
7. Brook of the willows Probably a wady in the vicinity of Nimrim, where are remains of a former town site; not a place in Edom, as held by some. To this place they take with them in their flight all gathered stores. ( Land of Moab, pp. 72, 82.) read more
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Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Isaiah 15:7
Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.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. read more