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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 15:9

For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood ,.... Of the slain, as the Targum adds. This was a river in the land of Moab, as say Jarchi and Kimchi; it had its name from the blood of the slain, Some take it to be the name of a city, and the same with Dibon, Isaiah 15:2 but, because of the abundance of blood shed in it, got this new name; and the Vulgate Latin version here calls it Dibon; and the Syriac version Ribon; and the Arabic version Remmon: for I will bring more upon Dimon ;... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 15:1

Because in the night - בליל beleil . That both these cities should be taken in the night is a circumstance somewhat unusual; but not so material as to deserve to be so strongly insisted upon. Vitringa, by his remark on this word, shows that he was dissatisfied with it in its plain and obvious meaning, and is forced to have recourse to a very hard metaphorical interpretation of it. Noctu vel nocturno impetu; vel metaphorice, repente, subito, inexpectata destructione: placet posterius .... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 15:2

He is gone to Bajith, and to Dibon - הבית עלה alah habbayith , should be rendered, he is gone to the House, i.e., to their chief temple, where they practiced idolatry. Dibon was the name of a tower where also was an idolatrous temple; thither they went to weep and pray before their idols, that they might interpose and save them from their calamities. So R. D. Kimchi. Me is gone to Bajith and to Dibon: but Bishop Lowth reads Beth Dibon; this is the name of one place; and the two words are... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 15:3

With sackcloth - שק sak . The word is in the plural שקים sakkim , sacks, in one of De Rossi's MSS. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 15:4

The armed soldiers "The very loins" - So the Septuagint, ἡ οσφυς , and the Syriac. They cry out violently, with their utmost force. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 15:5

My heart shall cry out for Moab "The heart of Moab crieth within her" - For לבי libbi , my heart, the Septuagint reads לבו libbo , his heart, or לב leb ; the Chaldee, לבו libbo . For בריחיה bericheyha , the Syriac reads ברוחה berocheh ; and so likewise the Septuagint, rendering it εν αυτῃ , Edit. Vat: or εν ἑαυτῃ , Edit. Alex. and MSS. I., D. II. A heifer of three years old "A young heifer" - Hebrew, a heifer three years old, in full strength; as Horace... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 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 עבר aber , praeteriit , "he hath passed;" and the Chaldee by יתבזזון yithbazezun , diripientur . To the brook of the willows "To the valley of willows" - That is, to Babylon. Hieron. and Jarchi in loc ., both referring to Psalm 137:2 . So likewise Prideaux, Le Clerc, etc. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 15:9

The waters of Dimon - Some have Dibon, others have Ribon and Rimon. St. Jerome observes that the same town was called both Dibon and Dimon. The reading is therefore indifferent. Upon him that escapeth of Moab, etc. "Upon the escaped of Moab, and Ariel, and the remnant of Admah" - The Septuagint for עריה aryeh , read אריאל ariel . Ar Moab was called also Ariel or Areopolis, Hieron. and Theodoret. See Cellarius. They make אדמה Admah , also a proper name. Michaelis thinks that... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 15:1

Because . An elliptical beginning. Mr. Cheyne supposes some such words as "Lament for Moab," or "Alas for Moab!" to have been in the writer's mind, but to have been omitted through "lyrical excitement." In the night . This is best taken literally. Night attacks, though not common in antiquity, were not unknown. Mesha, King of Moab, boasts that he "went in the night" against Nebo, and assaulted it at early dawn (Moabite Stone, I. 15). Ar of Moab ; or, Ar-Moab . An ancient city,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 15:1

Moab a national type. Of late years attention has been directed to Moab, through the discovery of what is known as the Moabite Stone, which contains the earliest inscription we have wholly in alphabetical characters. This stone was found at Diban , about three miles north of the central part of the Arnon. Its inscription remarkably confirms the Scripture record. The original territory of Moab seems to have been divided into three portions: 1. What was known as the "land of Moab"-the... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 15:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 15:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 15:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 15:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 15:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 15:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 15:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 15:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 15:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 15:1

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