Isaiah 15:1
A message about Moab. The town of Ar in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a single night! The town of Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a single night!
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Numbers 21:28For a fire blazed out from Heshbon, a flame from the town of Sihon. It burned up Ar in Moab where the rulers live on the high places of Arnon.
Deuteronomy 2:18“Today you will cross out of Moab at the border near Ar.
2 Kings 3:25They destroyed the towns, and each soldier threw stones on every good field until it was covered. They blocked up every spring and chopped down every good tree. Only Kir-haraseth still had its walls, but soldiers using slingshots surrounded it and attacked it as well.
Isaiah 13:1This is the message Isaiah, son of Amoz, received about Babylon.
Isaiah 16:6We know all about the pride of the Moabites, how terribly vain and conceited they are, completely arrogant! But their boasting is false.
Isaiah 16:11Heartbroken I cry for Moab like sad music on a harp; deep inside I weep for Kir-hareseth.
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 →