Isaiah 15:1
The word about Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab has become waste, and is seen no longer; for in a night Kir of Moab has become waste, and is seen no longer.
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Numbers 21:28For a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the town of Sihon: for the destruction of Ar in Moab, and the lords of the high places of the Arnon.
Deuteronomy 2:18You are about to go by Ar, the limit of the country of Moab;
2 Kings 3:25Pulling down the towns, covering every good field with stones, stopping up all the water-springs, and cutting down all the good trees; they went on driving Moab before them till only in Kir-hareseth were there any Moabites; and the fighting-men went round the town raining stones on it.
Isaiah 13:1The word of the Lord about Babylon which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.
Isaiah 16:6We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride and passion: his high words about himself are false.
Isaiah 16:11For this cause the cords of my heart are sounding for Moab, and I am full of sorrow for Kir-heres.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 15:1
This chapter, and that which follows it, are the burden of Moab—a prophecy of some great desolation that was coming upon that country, which bordered upon this land of Israel, and had often been injurious and vexatious to it, though the Moabites were descended from Lot, Abraham's kinsman and companion, and though the Israelites, by the appointment of God, had spared them when they might both easily and justly have cut them off with their neighbours. In this chapter we have, I. Great lamentation made by the… Read the whole commentary →