Numbers 24:17
see ....... behold <07200 07789> [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.
star <03556> [a Star.]
scepter <07626> [a Sceptre.]
crush ... skulls ... Moab <06285 04124 04272> [smite the corners of Moab. or, smite through the princes of]
Moab.
Moab <04124> [Moab.]
sons <01121> [all the children.]
[Seth.]
Psalms 83:4-8
devise <03289> [For.]
strategy <03820> [consent. Heb. heart. they are.]
tents <0168> [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 <0123> [Edom.]
Hagrites <01905> [Hagarenes.]
[Hagarites.]
Gebal <01381> [Gebal.]
Assyria <0804> [Assur.]
Assur is the same in the original as Asshur, or Assyria.
[Asshur.]
strength <02220> [holpen. Heb. been an arm to.]
descendants <01121> [the children.]
Isaiah 15:1--16:14
message <04853> [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.
Moab ........... Moab ............. Moab <04124> [Moab.]
night ............. night <03915> [in the.]
Ar <06144> [Ar.]
destroyed ............. destroyed <01820> [brought to silence. or, cut off. Kir.]
[Kir-hareseth.]
[Kir-haresh.]
[Kir-haraseth.]
[Kir-heres.]
went up <05927> [is gone.]
Moab <04124> [Moab.]
Nebo <05015> [Nebo.]
Medeba <04311> [Medeba.]
head <07218> [all.]
streets ............ squares <02351 07339> [their streets.]
roofs <01406> [on the.]
down weeping <01065 03381> [weeping abundantly. Heb. descending into weeping; or, coming down with weeping.]
Heshbon <02809> [Heshbon.]
Jahaz <03096> [Jahaz.]
<05315> [his.]
heart <03820> [My heart.]
fugitives <01280> [his fugitives, etc. or, to the borders thereof, even as an heifer. Zoar.]
Eglath Shelishiyah <07992> [three.]
ascent <04608> [the mounting.]
weep <01065> [with.]
demise <07667> [destruction. Heb. breaking.]
Nimrim <05249> [Nimrim.]
[Nimrah.]
[Beth-nimrah.]
[Beth-nimrah.]
gone <04923> [desolate. Heb. desolations. the grass.]
what they have <03502> [the abundance.]
Stream <05158> [to the.]
Stream .... Poplars <06155 05158> [brook of the willows. or, valley of the Arabians.]
cries of distress <02201> [the cry.]
Eglaim <097> [Eglaim.]
[En-eglaim]
Eglaim is called Agallim by Eusebius, who places it eight miles south from Ar or Areopolis.
Dimon .............. Dimon <01775> [Dimon.]
Some have Dibon; and Jerome says that the same town was called both Dibon and Dimon.
<03254> [more. Heb. additions.]
lion <0738> [lions.]
fugitives <06413> [him.]
Bp. Lowth, upon the authority of the LXX., renders, "upon the escaped of Moab, and Ariel, and the remnant of Admah."
rams <03733> [the lamb.]
Sela <05554> [from.]
Sela <05554> [Sela. or, Petra. Heb. a rock. the mount.]
flies <05074> [as.]
forced .... nest <07971 07064> [cast out of the nest. or, a nest forsaken. the fords.]
Bring <0935> [Take. Heb. Bring. execute.]
Provide <07896> [make.]
Hide <05641> [hide.]
fugitives <05080> [mine.]
one who applies pressure <04160> [for.]
one who applies pressure <04160> [extortioner. Heb. wringer. oppressors. Heb. treaders down.]
trustworthy <02617> [in mercy.]
established <03559> [established. or, prepared. in the.]
make <08199> [judging.]
experienced <04106> [hasting.]
heard <08085> [have.]
boastful claims <0907> [but.]
Moab ...... they <04124> [shall Moab.]
Kir Hareseth <07025> [Kir-hareseth.]
moan <01897> [mourn. or, mutter.]
fields <07709> [the fields.]
vines <01612> [the vine.]
[Shibmah.]
rulers <01167> [the lords.]
Jazer <03270> [Jazer.]
spread out <05203> [stretched out. or, plucked up.]
weep <01058> [I will bewail.]
Heshbon <02809> [O Heshbon.]
shout triumphantly .... fruit ... crops <01959 07019 07105> [for.]
shout triumphantly .... fruit <01959 07019> [the shouting for. or, the alarm is fallen upon, etc.]
heart <04578> [my.]
Kir Hareseth <07025> [Kir-haresh.]
[Kir-hareseth.]
When <07200> [when.]
enter .......... ineffective <0935 03201> [he shall.]
ineffective <03201> [but.]
previously <0227> [since.]
three <07969> [three.]
splendor <03519> [the glory.]
survivors <07605> [and the remnant.]
insignificant <03808> [feeble. or, not many.]
Isaiah 25:10
mountain <02022> [in this.]
Moab <04124> [Moab.]
trampled down ........... trampled down <01758> [trodden down. or, threshed.]
straw <04963> [even.]
<01119> [for the dunghill. or, in Madmenah.]
Jeremiah 25:21
Edom <0123> [Edom.]
Moab <04124> [Moab.]
<01121> [the.]
Jeremiah 48:1-47
Moab <04124> [A.M. cir. 3420. B.C. cir. 584. Moab.]
Nebo <05015> [Nebo.]
<04869> [Misgab. or, The high place.]
praise <08416> [no more.]
Heshbon <02809> [Heshbon.]
<03212> [come.]
<01826> [thou shalt.]
<01826> [cut down. or, brought to silence.]
[Madmenah. pursue thee. Heb. go after thee.]
Cries <06963> [voice.]
Horonaim <02773> [Horonaim.]
Moab <04124> [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.
distress <06810> [her.]
Luhith <03872> [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.
weeping <01065> [continual weeping. Heb. weeping with weeping.]
Run <05127> [Flee.]
be ..... shrub <01961 06176> [be like.]
shrub <06176> [the heath. or, a naked tree.]
trust <0982> [because.]
god Chemosh <03645> [Chemosh.]
priests <03548> [his priests.]
destroyer <07703> [the spoiler.]
town .... town <05892> [and no.]
gravestone <06731> [wings.]
cities <05892> [the cities.]
curse ............. curse <0779> [Cursed.]
lax <07423> [deceitfully. or, negligently.]
lived undisturbed <07599> [hath been.]
settle undisturbed <08252> [he hath.]
poured out <07324> [emptied.]
[thereof.]
<05975> [remained. Heb. stood.]
empty ... out .... empty the towns <06808> [wanderers.]
<07324> [empty.]
disappointed .......... disappointed <0954> [ashamed.]
<01004> [as the.]
say <0559> [How.]
mighty <01368> [We.]
destroyed <07703> [spoiled.]
finest <04005> [his chosen. Heb. the choice of his, etc.]
affirm <05002> [saith.]
<08034> [whose.]
<07138> [near.]
Mourn <05110> [bemoan.]
powerful <05797> [How.]
<01323> [daughter.]
Dibon <01769> [Dibon.]
sit on ....... live <03427> [and sit.]
destroy <07703> [the spoiler.]
live <03427> [inhabitant. Heb. inhabitress. Aroer.]
Question <07592> [ask.]
disgraced <03001> [confounded.]
Arnon <0769> [Arnon.]
plain <04334> [the plain.]
Jahzah <03096> [Jahazah.]
[Jahaza.]
[Jahaz.]
Dibon <01769> [Dibon.]
Beth Diblathaim <01015> [Beth-diblathaim.]
[Almon-diblathaim.]
[Diblath.]
Kiriathaim <07156> [Kiriathaim.]
[Shaveh Kiriathaim.]
[Kirjathaim. Beth-meon.]
[Baal-meon.]
[Beth-baal-meon.]
Kerioth <07152> [Kerioth.]
Bozrah <01224> [Bozrah.]
[Bezer.]
[Bezor.]
might <07161> [horn.]
power <02220> [and his.]
vaunted <07937> [ye him.]
wrath <01431> [for he.]
splashes <05606> [wallow.]
laughingstock <07814> [and he also.]
Israel <03478> [was not.]
<04672> [was he found.]
talked <05110> [skippedst. or, movedst thyself.]
Leave <05800> [leave.]
dove <03123> [like.]
heard <08085> [heard.]
arrogant <01363> [his loftiness.]
know <03045> [know.]
boastings ... prove <06213 0907> [his lies shall not so effect it. or, those on whom he stayeth (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.
weep with sorrow <03213> [will I howl.]
Kir Heres <07025> [Kir-heres.]
[Kar-haraseth.]
[Kir-hareseth.]
grapevines <01612> [vine.]
[Shibmah.]
Jazer ....................... Jazer <03270> [Jazer.]
[Jaazer.]
destroyer <07703> [the spoiler.]
Joy <08057> [joy.]
wine <03196> [caused.]
Cries of anguish <02201> [the cry.]
Elealeh <0500> [Elealeh.]
Jahaz <03096> [Jahaz.]
[Jahazah. Zoar.]
Eglath Shelishiyah <05697 07992> [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 <05249> [Nimrim.]
[Nimrah.]
[Beth-nimrah.]
dried <04923> [desolate. Heb. desolations.]
offerings <05927> [him that offereth.]
heart ..................... heart <03820> [mine heart.]
Kir Heres <07025> [Kir-heres.]
wealth <03502> [the riches.]
heads <07218> [every head.]
cut off <01639> [clipped. Heb. diminished. cuttings.]
<04975> [upon the loins.]
housetops <01406> [upon.]
break <07665> [broken.]
shattered <02865> [How is it.]
turn away <06203> [back. Heb. neck. a derision.]
swoop down <01675> [he shall.]
outspread <06566> [spread.]
<07152> [Kerioth. or, The cities.]
<03820> [as the heart.]
Moab <04124> [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!
nation <05971> [from.]
vaunted <01431> [magnified.]
<05127> [that fleeth.]
time <08141> [the year.]
fire <0784> [a fire.]
burn <0398> [devour.]
war-loving people <01121 07588> [tumultuous ones. Heb. children of noise.]
doomed <0188> [Woe.]
people <05971> [the people.]
captive ......... exile <07628 07633> [captives. Heb. in captivity.]
reverse <07725> [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.
to come <0319> [in the latter.]
Amos 2:1-3
three <07969> [For three.]
Moab <04124> [of Moab.]
burned <08313> [because.]
[Kirioth.]
battle <07588> [with tumult.]
Zephaniah 2:8-11
heard <08085> [heard.]
insults <01421> [the revilings.]
live <02416> [as I.]
Moab <04124> [Surely.]
Gomorrah <06017> [as Gomorrah.]
who are left <07611> [the residue.]
arrogance <01347> [for.]
verbally harassed <01431> [and magnified.]
weaken <07329> [for.]
weaken <07329> [famish. Heb. make lean. and men.]
<0339> [the isles.]
