Isaiah 15:1
A declaration about Moab. 1 Indeed, in one night Ar of Moab is laid waste and destroyed; 1 indeed, in one night Kir of Moab is laid waste and destroyed. 1
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Numbers 21:28A fire blazed from Heshbon, 1 a flame from the city of Sihon 1 that devoured Ar of Moab, 1 and the owners of the high places of Arnon. 1
Deuteronomy 2:18'You are today to pass over Ar, the border of Moab.
2 Kings 3:25They destroyed the cities, and on every good piece of land every man threw a rock until it was covered up. They stopped up every spring of water and chopped down all the good trees. Only Kir Hareseth was left with its rocks in place. But the soldiers armed with slings surrounded and attacked it.
Isaiah 13:1A declaration about Babylon, that Isaiah son of Amoz received: 1
Isaiah 16:6We have heard of Moab's pride, his arrogance, 1 his boasting, and his anger. But his boastings are empty words. 1
Isaiah 16:11So my heart sighs like a harp for Moab, and my inward being for Kir Hareseth. 1
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 →