Verses 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 to Medeba, and some, through streets and on tops of… houses, all bewailing the catastrophe befalling them.
Gird… with sackcloth In Eastern countries to this day similar exhibits of grief are made in days of calamity.
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