Isaiah 16:1

Send rams to the ruler of the land 1 from Selah in the wilderness, to the mount of the daughter of Zion. 1

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Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

In Context

2As wandering birds, as a scattered nest, 1 so the women of Moab are at the fords of the Arnon River. 1

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Cross References

2 Samuel 8:2Then he defeated Moab and measured their men with a line by making them lie down on the ground. He measured off two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. So the Moabites became servants to David and began to pay him tribute.

2 Kings 14:7He killed ten thousand soldiers of Edom in the Valley of Salt; he also took Sela in war and called it Joktheel, which is what it is called to this day.

Isaiah 10:32This very day he will halt 1 at Nob and shake his fist at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. 1

Micah 4:8As for you, watchtower for the flock, 1 hill of the daughter of Zion— 1 to you it will come, your former dominion will be restored, 1 the kingdom that belongs to the daughter of Jerusalem. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 16:1

This chapter continues and concludes the burden of Moab. In it, I. The prophet gives good counsel to the Moabites, to reform what was amiss among them, and particularly to be kind to God's people, as the likeliest way to prevent the judgments before threatened, ver. 1-5 . II. Fearing they would not take this counsel (they were so proud), he goes on to foretel the lamentable devastation of their country, and the confusion they should be brought to, and this within three years, ver. 6-14 . Read the whole commentary →

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