Isa 34:6 | JFB | STEP | 6. filled —glutted. The image of a sacrifice is continued. blood . . . fat —the parts especially devoted to God in a sacrifice ( ). lambs . . . goats — sacrificial animals: the Idumeans, of all classes, doomed to slaughter, are meant ( ). Bozrah —called Bostra by the Romans, &c., assigned in to Moab, so that it seems to have been at one time in the dominion of Edom, and at another in that of Moab ( ); it was strictly not in Edom, but the capital of Auranitis (the Houran ). Edom seems to have extended its dominion so as to include it (compare ).

Isaiah 34:6

6. filled—glutted. The image of a sacrifice is continued.

blood . . . fat—the parts especially devoted to God in a sacrifice (2Sa 1:22).

lambs . . . goats—sacrificial animals: the Idumeans, of all classes, doomed to slaughter, are meant (Zep 1:7).

Bozrah—called Bostra by the Romans, &c., assigned in Jer 48:24 to Moab, so that it seems to have been at one time in the dominion of Edom, and at another in that of Moab (Isa 63:1; Jer 49:13, 20, 22); it was strictly not in Edom, but the capital of Auranitis (the Houran). Edom seems to have extended its dominion so as to include it (compare La 4:21).