Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.

General references

Bible References

Moab

Numbers 21:27
That is why those who use proverbs say,

“Come to Heshbon,
Let the city of Sihon be built and established.

Her

Esther 8:11
In it the king granted the Jews who were in every city the right to assemble and to defend their lives; to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any armed force that might attack them, their little children, and women; and to take the enemies’ goods as plunder,
Psalm 137:9

How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones
Against the rock.

General references

Jeremiah 51:54

The sound of an outcry [comes] from Babylon,
And [the sound] of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!