Verse 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 country, so then, no doubt, towns and great encampments were occasionally overthrown in a single night by earthquakes or invading hordes.
Ar of Moab The city of Moab, the only city of account Moab proper had, situated south of the Arnon, not on it, though Numbers 21:15 speaks of it as if it were at the northern border on the Arnon: this, because no other city intervened. See TRISTRAM, Land of Moab, p. 120.
Kir of Moab Now Kir-Hareseth, Isaiah 16:7, some two miles south of Ar, according to present ruins.
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