Num 24:17, Psa 83:4-8, Isa 15-16, 25:10, Jer 25:21, Jer 48 | TSK | STEP | I shall see him.The Targum of Onkelos translates this passage in the following manner: "I shall see him, but not now; I shall behold him, but he is not near. When a king shall arise from the house of Jacob, and the Messiah be anointed from the house of Israel; he shall slay the princes of Moab, and rule over all the children of men." The marginal references will direct the reader to the fulfilment of these remarkable prophecies. a Star. a Sceptre. smite the corners of Moab. or, smite through the princes ofMoab. Moab. all the children. Seth.

Numbers 24:17

I shall see him.The Targum of Onkelos translates this passage in the following manner: "I shall see him, but not now; I shall behold him, but he is not near. When a king shall arise from the house of Jacob, and the Messiah be anointed from the house of Israel; he shall slay the princes of Moab, and rule over all the children of men." The marginal references will direct the reader to the fulfilment of these remarkable prophecies.

Job 19:25-27; Zec 12:10; Jude 1:11,14,15; Re 1:7

a Star.

Mt 2:2-9; Lu 1:78; 2Pe 1:19; Re 22:16

a Sceptre.

Ge 49:10; Ps 45:6; 78:70-72; 110:2; Isa 9:7; Lu 1:32,33; Heb 1:8

smite the corners of Moab. or, smite through the princes ofMoab.

1Sa 14:38; *marg:

Zec 10:4

Moab.

2Sa 8:2; 2Ki 3:5,26,27; 1Ch 18:2; Jer 48:45

all the children.

Ge 4:25,26; 5:3-29

Seth.

Ps 72:8-11; Re 11:15

Psalms 83:4-8

Ex 1:10; Es 3:6-9; Pr 1:12; Jer 11:19; 31:36; Da 7:25; Mt 27:62-66

Ac 4:17; 9:1,2

For.

2:2; Pr 21:30; Isa 7:5-7; 8:9,10; Joh 11:47-53; Ac 23:12,13

Re 17:13; 19:19

consent. Heb. heart. they are.

Jos 10:3-5; 2Sa 10:6-8; Isa 7:2

The tabernacles.Tents are mentioned because it was the custom of these people, particularly the Ishmaelites, to live a migratory or wandering life; encamping sometimes in one place, and sometimes in another, as they found convenience for themselves and cattle; a custom retained by their descendants to the present day.

Edom.

2Ch 20:1,10,11

Hagarenes.

Ge 25:12-18; 1Ch 5:10,19,20

Hagarites.

Gebal.

Jos 13:5; Eze 27:9

Assur.Assur is the same in the original as Asshur, or Assyria.

Ge 10:11

Asshur.

Ge 25:3

holpen. Heb. been an arm to.

Isa 33:2

the children.

Ge 19:37,38; De 2:9

Isaiah 15

1 The lamentable state of Moab.

burden.This and the following chapter form one entire prophecy; which was most probably delivered, as Bp. Lowth supposes, soon after the foregoing, (ch. 14:28-32,) in the first year of Hezekiah, and accomplished in his fourth year when Shalmaneser invaded Israel.

13:1; 14:28

Moab.

11:14; 25:10; Jer 9:26; 48:1-47; Eze 25:8-11; Am 2:1-3; Zep 2:8-11

in the.

Ex 12:29,30; 1Th 5:1-3

Ar.

Nu 21:28; De 2:9,18

brought to silence. or, cut off. Kir.

Kir-hareseth.

Kir-haresh.

Kir-haraseth.

Kir-heres.

is gone.

16:12; Jos 13:17; Jer 48:18,22,23

Moab.

3; 14:31; 16:7; Jer 48:31,39

Nebo.

Nu 32:3,38; De 34:1; Jer 48:1

Medeba.

Nu 21:30; Jos 13:16

all.

3:24; 22:12; Le 19:27,28; 21:5; De 14:1; Job 1:20; Jer 7:29; 47:5

Jer 48:1,37,38; Eze 7:18

their streets.

2Sa 3:31; 2Ki 6:30; Jon 3:6-8; Mt 11:21

on the.

2; 22:1; De 22:8; Jer 19:13; 48:38,39

weeping abundantly. Heb. descending into weeping; or, comingdown with weeping.

Heshbon.

16:8,9; Nu 32:3,4; Jer 48:34

Jahaz.

Nu 21:23; De 2:32; Jos 13:18; Jud 11:20

his.

Ge 27:46; Nu 11:15; 1Ki 19:4; Job 3:20-22; 7:15,16; Jer 8:3; 20:18

Jon 4:3,8; Re 9:6

My heart.

16:9-11; Jer 8:18,19; 9:10,18,19; 13:17; 17:16; 48:31-36

Lu 19:41-44; Ro 9:1-3

his fugitives, etc. or, to the borders thereof, even as anheifer. Zoar.

Ge 13:10; 14:2; 19:22

three.

16:14; Jer 48:34

the mounting.

Jer 48:5,34

with.

2Sa 15:23,30

destruction. Heb. breaking.

22:5; Jer 4:20

Nimrim.

Nu 32:3,36

Nimrah.

Beth-nimrah.

Jos 13:27

Beth-nimrah.

desolate. Heb. desolations. the grass.

16:9,10; Joe 1:10-12; Hab 3:17,18; Re 8:7

the abundance.

5:29; 10:6,14; Na 2:12,13

to the.

Ps 137:1,2

brook of the willows. or, valley of the Arabians.

the cry.

2-5; Jer 48:20-24,31-34

Eglaim.

Eze 47:10

En-eglaimEglaim is called Agallim by Eusebius, who places it eight miles south from Ar or Areopolis.

Dimon.Some have Dibon; and Jerome says that the same town was called both Dibon and Dimon.

more. Heb. additions.

Le 26:18,21,24,28; Jer 48:43-45

lions.

Le 26:22; 2Ki 17:25; Jer 15:3; Am 5:19

him.Bp. Lowth, upon the authority of the LXX., renders, "upon the escaped of Moab, and Ariel, and the remnant of Admah."

Isaiah 16

1 Moab is exhorted to yield obedience to the throne of David.

6 Moab is threatened for her pride.

9 The prophet bewails her.

12 The judgment of Moab.

the lamb.

2Sa 8:2; 2Ki 3:4; Ezr 7:17

from.

2Ki 14:7

Sela. or, Petra. Heb. a rock. the mount.

10:32; Mic 4:8

as.

13:14; Pr 27:8

cast out of the nest. or, a nest forsaken. the fords.

Nu 21:13-15; De 2:36; 3:8,12; Jos 13:16; Jud 11:18

Take. Heb. Bring. execute.

1:17; Ps 82:3,4; Jer 21:12; 22:3; Eze 45:9-12; Da 4:27; Zec 7:9

make.

9:6; 25:4; 32:2; Jud 9:15; Jon 4:5-8

hide.

56:8; Ob 1:12-14; Mt 25:35; Heb 13:2

mine.

De 23:15,16; 24:14; Jer 21:12

for.

14:4; 33:1; 51:13; Jer 48:8,18; Zec 9:8

extortioner. Heb. wringer. oppressors. Heb. treaders down.

15:6; 25:10; Zec 10:5; Mal 4:3; Lu 21:24; Ro 16:20; Re 11:2

in mercy.

Ps 61:6,7; 85:10; 89:1,2,14; Pr 20:28; 29:14; Lu 1:69-75

established. or, prepared. in the.

9:6,7; 2Sa 5:9; 7:16; Jer 23:5,6; Da 7:14,27; Am 9:11; Mic 4:7

Lu 1:31-33; Ac 15:16,17

judging.

11:1-5; 32:1,2; 2Sa 23:3; 1Ki 10:9; 2Ch 31:20; Ps 72:2-4; 96:13

Ps 98:9; 99:4; Zec 9:9; Heb 1:8,9

hasting.

2Pe 3:11,12

have.

2:11; Jer 48:26,29,30,42; Am 2:1; Ob 1:3,4; Zep 2:9,10; 1Pe 5:5

but.

28:15,18; 44:25; Jer 50:36

shall Moab.

15:2-5; Jer 48:20

Kir-hareseth.

11; 15:1; 2Ki 3:25

mourn. or, mutter.

8:19

the fields.

the vine.

Shibmah.

the lords.

Jazer.

stretched out. or, plucked up.

I will bewail.

15:5; Jer 48:32-34

O Heshbon.

15:4

for.

9:3; Jud 9:27; Jer 40:10,12

the shouting for. or, the alarm is fallen upon, etc.

24:8,9; 32:10; Jer 48:33; Am 5:11,17; Hab 3:17,18; Zep 1:13

my.

15:5; 63:15; Jer 4:19; 31:20; 48:36; Ho 11:8; Php 2:1

Kir-haresh.

Kir-hareseth.

when.

15:2; 26:16; Nu 22:39,41; 23:1-3,14,28; 24:17; Pr 1:28; Jer 48:35

he shall.

37:38; 1Ki 11:7; 2Ki 3:27; Jer 48:7,13,46

but.

47:13; 2Ki 19:12,16-19; Ps 115:3-7; Jer 10:5

since.

44:8

three.

7:16; 15:5; 21:16; De 15:8

the glory.

17:4; 23:9; Ge 31:1; Es 5:11; Jer 9:23; Na 2:9,10

and the remnant.

Jer 48:46,47

feeble. or, not many.

Isaiah 25:10

in this.

6; 11:10; 12:6; 18:4; Ps 132:13,14; Eze 48:35; Zep 3:15-17

Zec 9:9-11

Moab.

11:14; 15:1-16:14; Nu 24:17; Zep 2:9

trodden down. or, threshed.

41:15,16; Mic 4:13

even.

5:25; 10:6; 14:19; 26:6; Ps 83:10; La 1:15

for the dunghill. or, in Madmenah.

10:31; Jer 48:2

Jeremiah 25:21

Edom.

27:3; 49:7-22; Ps 137:7; Isa 34:1-17; 63:1-6; La 4:21,22

Eze 25:12-14; 32:29; 35:1-15; Am 1:11,12; Ob 1:1-16,18; Mal 1:2-4

Moab.

9:26; 48:1-47; Isa 15:1-16:14; 25:10; Eze 25:8-11; Am 2:1-3

Zep 2:8-10

the.

49:1-6; Eze 25:2-7; Am 1:13-15

Jeremiah 48

1 The judgment of Moab,

7 for their pride;

11 for their security;

14 for their carnal confidence;

26 and for their contempt of God and his people.

47 The restoration of Moab.

A.M. cir. 3420. B.C. cir. 584. Moab.

9:26; 25:21; 27:3; Ge 19:37; Nu 24:17; 2Ch 20:10; Isa 15:1-16:14

Isa 25:10; 27:3; Eze 25:8-11; Am 2:1,2; Zep 2:8-11

Nebo.

22,23; Nu 32:3,37,38; 33:47; Isa 15:2

Misgab. or, The high place.

no more.

17; Isa 16:14

Heshbon.

34,35; Nu 21:25-30; 32:37; Isa 15:5; 16:8,9

come.

42; 31:36; 33:24; 46:28; Es 3:8-14; Ps 83:4-8

thou shalt.

25:15,17

cut down. or, brought to silence.

Isa 15:1; 25:10; *marg:

Madmenah. pursue thee. Heb. go after thee.

voice.

4:20,21; 47:2; Isa 15:2,8; 16:7-11; 22:4

Horonaim.

5,34; Isa 15:5

Moab.This prophecy against Moab, as well as the following ones concerning Ammon, Edom, and the neighbouring countries, seem to have been fulfilled during the long siege of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar. Josephus places these events five years after the destruction of Jerusalem.

Nu 21:27-30

her.

Es 8:11; Ps 137:9

Luhith.Luhith is placed by Eusebius between Areopolis, or Ar, and Zoar. (See ver. 34.) It was evidently situated upon a height; as was also Horonaim, which was probably not far from Luhith.

Isa 15:5

continual weeping. Heb. weeping with weeping.

Flee.

51:6; Ge 19:17; Ps 11:1; Pr 6:4,5; Mt 24:16-18; Lu 3:7; 17:31-33

Heb 6:18

be like.

17:6; Job 30:3-7

the heath. or, a naked tree.

because.

9:23; 13:25; Ps 40:4; 49:6,7; 52:7; 62:8-10; Isa 59:4-6; Eze 28:2-5

Ho 10:13; 1Ti 6:17; Re 18:7

Chemosh.

13,46; 43:12; Nu 21:29; Jud 11:24; 1Ki 11:7,33; Isa 46:1,2

his priests.

49:3

the spoiler.

18; 6:26; 15:8; 25:9; 51:56

and no.

20-25; Eze 25:9

wings.

28; Ps 11:1; 55:6; Isa 16:2; Re 12:14

the cities.

46:19; Zep 2:9

Cursed.

50:25; Nu 31:14-18; Jud 5:23; 1Sa 15:3,9,13-35; 1Ki 20:42

deceitfully. or, negligently.

hath been.

Ps 55:19; 73:4-8; 123:4; Pr 1:32; *marg:

Zec 1:15

he hath.

Isa 25:6; Zep 1:12

emptied.

51:34; Isa 24:3; Na 2:2,10

thereof.

29; Isa 16:6; Eze 16:49,50

remained. Heb. stood.

wanderers.

8,15; 25:9; Isa 16:2; Eze 25:9,10

empty.

11,38; 14:3; 19:10; 25:34; Ps 2:9; Isa 30:14; Na 2:2

ashamed.

7,39,46; Jud 11:24; 1Sa 5:3-7; 1Ki 11:7; 18:26-29,40; Isa 2:20

Isa 16:12; 45:16,20; 46:1,2

as the.

1Ki 12:28,29; Ho 8:5,6; 10:5,6,14,15; Am 5:5,6

How.

8:8; Ps 11:1; Isa 36:4,5

We.

9:23; 49:16; Ps 33:16; Ec 9:11; Isa 10:13,16; 16:6; Eze 30:6

Zep 2:10

spoiled.

8,9-25

his chosen. Heb. the choice of his, etc.

Isa 40:30,31

gone.

4; 50:27; 51:40; Isa 34:2-8

saith.

46:18; 51:57; Ps 24:8-10; 47:2; Da 4:37; Zec 14:9; Mal 1:14

Re 19:16

whose.

Jas 5:4

near.

1:12; De 32:35; Isa 13:22; 16:13,14; Eze 12:23,28; 2Pe 2:3

bemoan.

31-33; 9:17-20; Isa 16:8; Re 18:14-20

How.

39; Isa 9:4; 10:5; 14:4,5; Eze 19:11-14; Zec 11:10-14

daughter.

46:18,19; Isa 47:1

Dibon.

22; Nu 21:30; 32:3; Jos 13:17; Isa 15:2

and sit.

Ge 21:16; Ex 17:3; Jud 15:18; Isa 5:13; Eze 19:13

the spoiler.

inhabitant. Heb. inhabitress. Aroer.

Nu 32:34; De 2:36; 2Sa 24:5; 1Ch 5:8

ask.

1Sa 4:13,14,16; 2Sa 1:3,4; 18:24-32

confounded.

1-5; Isa 15:1-5,8; 16:7-11

Arnon.

Nu 21:13,14,26-28; De 2:36; Jos 13:9; Jud 11:18; Isa 16:2

the plain.

8; Eze 25:9; Zep 2:9

Jahazah.

Jos 13:18

Jahaza.

Jos 21:36,37; Isa 15:4

Jahaz.

Dibon.

1,18; Nu 32:34

Beth-diblathaim.

Nu 33:46

Almon-diblathaim.

Eze 6:14

Diblath.

Kiriathaim.

1; Ge 14:5

Shaveh Kiriathaim.

Jos 13:19

Kirjathaim. Beth-meon.

Nu 32:38

Baal-meon.

Jos 13:17

Beth-baal-meon.

Kerioth.

Bozrah.

Bezer.

Bezor.

horn.

Ps 75:10; La 2:3; Da 7:8; 8:7-9,21; Zec 1:19-21

and his.

Nu 32:37; Job 22:9; Ps 10:15; 37:17; Eze 30:21-25

ye him.

13:13,14; 25:15-17,27-29; 51:7,39,57; Ps 60:3; 75:8; Isa 29:9

Isa 51:17; 63:6; La 3:15; 4:21; Eze 23:31-34; Na 3:11; Re 16:19

for he.

42; Ex 5:2; 9:17; Job 9:4; Isa 10:15; Eze 35:12,13; Da 5:23

Da 8:11,12; 11:36; Zep 2:8-10; 2Th 2:4

wallow.

Isa 19:14; 29:9; Hab 2:16

and he also.

39; Ps 2:4; 59:8; La 1:21; Eze 23:32

was not.

Ps 44:13; 79:4; Pr 24:17,18; La 2:15-17; Eze 25:8; 26:2,3; 35:15

Eze 36:2,4; Ob 1:12,13; Mic 7:8-10; Zep 2:8,10; Mt 7:2

was he found.

2:26; Mt 26:55; 27:38

skippedst. or, movedst thyself.

leave.

9; Jud 6:2; 1Sa 13:6; Isa 2:19; Ob 1:3,4

like.

49:16; Ps 55:6,7; So 2:14

heard.

Pr 8:13; Isa 16:6; Zep 2:8-15

his loftiness.

Job 40:10-12; Ps 138:6; Pr 18:12; 30:13; Isa 2:11,12; Da 4:37

Lu 14:11; Jas 4:6

know.

Isa 16:6; 37:28,29

his lies shall not so effect it. or, those on whom hestayeth (Heb. his bars) do not right. {Baddim,} as Lowth observes, sometimes means those who pretend to the art of divination. Though the soothsayers of Moab, upon whose skill she relies, promise him success, yet in the event it will appear there was no truth in what they said.

50:36; Job 9:12,13; Ps 33:10; Pr 21:30

will I howl.

Isa 15:5; 16:7-11

Kir-heres.

36; 2Ki 3:25

Kar-haraseth.

Isa 16:7

Kir-hareseth.

vine.

Nu 32:38

Shibmah.

Jos 13:19; Isa 16:8,9

Jazer.

Nu 21:32

Jaazer.

Nu 32:1,35; Jos 21:39

the spoiler.

8,15,18; 40:10

joy.

25:9,10; Isa 9:3; 16:9; 24:7-12; 32:9-14; Joe 1:12,16; Re 18:22,23

caused.

Isa 5:10; 7:23; 16:10; Joe 1:5,12,13; Hag 2:16

the cry.

2; Isa 15:4-6

Elealeh.

Nu 32:37

Jahaz.

Jahazah. Zoar.

3,5; De 34:3; Isa 15:5

as an heifer of.As a young cow, when deprived of her first calf; which runs about from place to place, filling the air with loud and repeated lowings, expressive of the deepest distress.

Nimrim.

Nu 32:3

Nimrah.

Nu 32:36

Beth-nimrah.

Isa 15:6

desolate. Heb. desolations.

him that offereth.

7; Nu 22:40,41; 28:14,28-30; Isa 15:2; 16:12

mine heart.

4:19; Isa 15:5; 16:11; 63:15

Kir-heres.

the riches.

17:11; Pr 11:4; 13:22; 18:11; Ec 5:13,14; Isa 15:7; Lu 12:20,21

Jas 5:2,3

every head.

16:6; 41:5; 47:5; Isa 3:24; 15:2,3; Eze 7:18; 27:31; Am 8:10

Mic 1:16

clipped. Heb. diminished. cuttings.

Le 19:28; 1Ki 18:28; Mr 5:5

upon the loins.

Ge 37:29,34; 1Ki 21:27; 2Ki 6:30; Isa 20:2; 37:1; Re 11:3

upon.

Isa 15:3; 22:1

broken.

22:28; 25:34; Ps 2:9; Isa 30:14; Ho 8:8; Ro 9:21,22; 2Ti 2:20,21

Re 2:27

How is it.

17; La 1:1; 2:1; 4:1; Re 18:9,10,15,16

back. Heb. neck. a derision.

26,27; Isa 20:4-6; Eze 26:16-18

he shall.

4:13; De 28:49; La 4:19; Eze 17:3; Da 7:4; Ho 8:1

spread.

49:22; Isa 8:8

Kerioth. or, The cities.

as the heart.

4:31; 6:24; 30:6; 49:22,24; 50:43; 51:30; Isa 13:8; 21:3; 26:17,18

Mic 4:9,10; 1Th 5:3

Moab.Moab has long since ceased to be a nation; while the Jews, agreeably to the Divine promise, (ch. 46:28,) though successively subdued and oppressed by the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Syro-Macedonians, and Romans, (which have also all passed away, and are no more,) and dispersed over the face of the earth, subsist to this day as a distinct people from all the nations of the world!

from.

2; 30:11; Es 3:8-13; Ps 83:4-8; Isa 7:8; Mt 7:2

magnified.

26-30; Pr 16:18; Isa 37:23; Da 11:36; 2Th 2:4; Re 13:6

De 32:23-25; Ps 11:6; Isa 24:17,18; La 3:47

that fleeth.

16:16; 1Ki 19:17; 20:30; Isa 37:36-38; Am 2:14,15; 5:19; 9:1-4

the year.

8:12; 10:15; 11:23; 23:12; 46:21; 51:18; Isa 10:3; Ho 9:7; Mic 7:4

a fire.

Nu 21:28; Am 2:2

devour.

Nu 24:17; Zec 10:4; Mt 21:42

tumultuous ones. Heb. children of noise.

Woe.

Nu 21:29

the people.

7,13; Jud 11:24; 1Ki 11:7; 2Ki 23:13

captives. Heb. in captivity.

Yet will I bring.Many of the Moabites were afterwards restored to their country by Cyrus, as we learn from Josephus; but they never were restored to their national consequence; and perhaps their restoration in the latter days refers to the conversion of their scattered remnants to the gospel.

46:26; 49:6,39; Isa 18:7; 19:18-23; 23:18; Eze 16:53-55

in the latter.

23:20; 30:24; Nu 24:14; De 4:30; 31:29; Job 19:25; Eze 38:8; Da 2:28

Da 10:14; Ho 3:5