Verse 34
34. Heshbon… unto Elealeh This verse is based on Isaiah 15:4. Heshbon and Elealeh are about two miles distant from each other. Their ruins are still visible. It is not impossible that a shout of wailing on one height may be heard on the other, and yet this supposition is not necessary to the understanding of the passage.
As a heifer of three years old The force of this comparison is not very evident. If it embraced not a single locality, but Moab as a whole, it would be more intelligible as suggesting a land which had never been brought under the yoke, subjugated. Keil regards the original as a proper name, and translates from Zoar as far as Horonaim and the third Eglath. He explains the ordinal on the theory that there were three places of the same name which were distinguished. This, though conjectural, may be accepted as not without value.
Waters… of Nimrim This “Nimrim” cannot be the Nimrah of Numbers 32:3; Numbers 32:36, and Joshua 13:27, for they must be too far north for this verse. It must be some well watered district of Moab.
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