Isaiah 15:8-9

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 15:6-8

Isaiah 15:6-8. 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, Isaiah 15:6. The waters of Nimrim, or, the waterish, or well-watered grounds, shall be desolate Such grounds, being very fruitful, are commonly most inhabited and cultivated; but now they also, and much more the dry and barren grounds, should be desolate, and without inhabitant.... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 15:9

Isaiah 15:9. For the waters of Dimon This seems to be the same place with Dibon, mentioned Isaiah 15:2; shall be full of blood This is a third evil, and cause of lamentation; the great slaughter which the enemy should make of the people. For I will bring more upon Dimon Hebrew, I will place, or lay upon Dimon, נוכפות , accessions, or additions, that is, I will increase those waters by the torrents that shall flow into them from the blood of the slain. The expression is strong... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 15:1-9

Devastation in Moab (15:1-16:14)The place names mentioned in these two chapters indicate that the attack on Moab comes from the north, most likely from Assyria. The attack is swift and ruthless, and towns fall in a night. Wherever a person looks, there is mourning (15:1-4). Even Isaiah weeps as he sees the people fleeing pitifully, rushing along the streets, across the streams and over the fields that have been damaged by the invading armies. They take with them whatever precious possessions... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 15:8

Eglaim. Not identified; probably the En-eglaim of Ezekiel 47:10 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 15:9

Dimon. Probably Umm Deineh , east of the Dead Sea. Dimon. blood. Note Figure of speech Paronomasia . Hebrew. Dimon . dam . more = more [howlings]. lions = a lion. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Species), for all wild beasts. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 15:8-9

Isaiah 15:8-9. For the cry is gone round, &c.— The prophet contemplating, with the most lively imagination, the motion and consternation of all Moab, as if present to his view, scarcely satisfies himself in painting the scene: he repeats again in this place the proposition, and supplies by a general declaration what he might seem not to have expressed with sufficient perfection before: he therefore declares, that this lamentation of which he speaks shall not be private, and peculiar to one... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 15:8

8. Eglaim— ( :-), En-eglaim. Not the Agalum of EUSEBIUS, eight miles from Areopolis towards the south; the context requires a town on the very borders of Moab or beyond them. Beer-elim—literally, "the well of the Princes"—(so :-). Beyond the east borders of Moab. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 15:9

9. Dimon—same as Dibon ( :-). Its waters are the Arnon. full of blood—The slain of Moab shall be so many. bring more—fresh calamities, namely, the "lions" afterwards mentioned (2 Kings 17:25; Jeremiah 5:6; Jeremiah 15:3). VITRINGA understands Nebuchadnezzar as meant by "the lion"; but it is plural, "lions." The "more," or in Hebrew, "additions," he explains of the addition made to the waters of Dimon by the streams of blood of the slain. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 15:5-9

The Lord also expressed His grief over Moab’s coming judgment through the prophet (cf. Isaiah 21:3-4; Isaiah 22:4; Jeremiah 9:1). Isaiah took up God’s words in his own mouth and represented God’s thoughts and words by using the first person singular (cf. Isaiah 16:9). The Moabite refugees would move from place to place trying to find security. Their movement would be generally south, so the enemy may have descended from the north. The whole country would suffer devastation. Even though people... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 15:1-9

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. 2. 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... read more

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