Isaiah 15:1
The word against the land of Moab. By night the land of Moab shall be destroyed; for by night the wall of the land of Moab shall be destroyed.
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Numbers 21:28For a fire has gone forth from Heshbon, 1 A flame from the city of Sihon, 1 And has consumed as far as Moab, 1 And devoured the pillars of Arnon. 1
Deuteronomy 2:18Thou shalt pass over this day the borders of Moab to Ar;
2 Kings 3:25And they razed the cities, and cast every man his stone on every good piece of land and filled it; and they stopped every well, and cut down every good tree, until they left only the stones of the wall cast down; and the slingers compassed the land, and smote it.
Isaiah 13:1The vision which Isaiah son of Amoz saw against Babylon.
Isaiah 16:6We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud. I have cut off his pride: thy prophecy shall not be thus, no not thus.
Isaiah 16:11Therefore my belly shall sound as a harp for Moab, and thou hast repaired my inward parts as a wall.
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 →