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Themes in Isaiah 15

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Themes in Isaiah 15

Isaiah 15:1 (show verse)

The burden of Moab. For in the night the city of Moab was destroyed, perishing; for in the night the wall of Moab was destroyed, perishing.

Ar » Destruction of
Burden » Figurative » Of the prophetic message
Kir-haraseth » Called kir of moab
Night » Used figuratively
Prophets » Were sent to » Predict the downfall of nations
Strategy » In war

Isaiah 15:2 (show verse)

He went up to the house and to Dibon, the heights, to weep: over Nebo and Medeba shall Moab wail: upon all their heads baldness; every beard cut off.

Bajith » A place of idolatrous worship in moab
Beard » Cut
Beards » Shaving, illustrative of severe judgments
Dibon » Also called dibon-gad and dimon » Taken by moab
Head » Illustrative » (made bald,) of heavy judgments
Medeba » An idolatrous "high place,"
Nebo » Town and district
Nebo » A city » Allotted » Tribe of reuben » Prophecies concerning

Isaiah 15:3 (show verse)

And in their places without they girded themselves with sackcloth: upon her roofs and in her streets every one shall wail, going down into weeping.

Sackcloth » A symbol of mourning
Sackcloth » Was worn » In the streets
Weeping » Caused by sin

Isaiah 15:4 (show verse)

And Heshbon shall cry and Elealah; even to Jahaz their voice was heard: for this the loins of Moab shall make a loud noise his soul shall be evil to him.

Elealeh » Repossessed by the moabites
Jahaz » A levitical city in reuben, taken from the moabites

My heart shall cry out for Moab; passing through even to Zoar, a heifer of three years: for going up to Luhith with weeping shall they go up into it: for the way of Horonaim they shall rouse up a cry of breaking.

Grass » Failure of, a great calamity
Horonaim » A town of moab
Luhith » A city » A city of moab
Oxen » Heifer illustrative » (of three years old,) of moab in affliction
Zoar » Territory of

Isaiah 15:6 (show verse)

For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolation; for the grass dried up, the herbage failed; there was no green.

Grass » Failure of, a great calamity
Nimrim » Waters on the borders of the tribe of gad and moab

Isaiah 15:7 (show verse)

For this the abundance made and their wealth upon the torrent of the Arabians shall they lift them up.

Brooks » Mentioned in scripture » Of the willows
Trees » Varieties » Willows

Isaiah 15:8 (show verse)

For the cry surrounded the bound of Moab, its wailing even to Eglaim, and its wailing to the well of Elim.

Beer-elim » A city » A city of moab
Eglaim » City of moab

Isaiah 15:9 (show verse)

For the waters of Dimon were filled with blood: I will put additions upon Dimon, to the escaping of Moab, lions, and to the rest of the land.

Dibon » Also called dibon-gad and dimon » Taken by moab
Lions » Figurative » Of divine judgments