Isaiah 15:4

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Summary

And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.

Jahaz

His

General references

Exodus 11:6

Joshua 13:16

Bible References

Jahaz

But Sihon would not permit Israel to pass through his border. So Sihon gathered all his people and went out against Israel in the wilderness, and came to Jahaz and fought against Israel.

“Then Sihon with all his people came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz.

and Jahaz and Kedemoth and Mephaath,

But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory; so Sihon gathered all his people and camped in Jahaz and fought with Israel.

His

Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am tired of living because of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these, from the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

So if You are going to deal thus with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your sight, and do not let me see my wretchedness.”

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”

“Why is light given to him who suffers,
And life to the bitter of soul,

So that my soul would choose suffocation,
Death rather than my pains.

And death will be chosen rather than life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family, that remains in all the places to which I have driven them,” declares the Lord of hosts.

Why did I ever come forth from the womb
To look on trouble and sorrow,
So that my days have been spent in shame?

Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for death is better to me than life.”

And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death flees from them.

General references

Moreover, there shall be a great cry in all the land of Egypt, such as there has not been before and such as shall never be again.

Their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, with the city which is in the middle of the valley and all the plain by Medeba;