--- title: "Isaiah 15 - Study King James Bible with commentary critical and explanatory on the whole bible" description: "Read Isaiah 15 with commentary critical and explanatory on the whole bible commentary. 1 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought t" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/isaiah/15" --- [ Read](/kjv/isaiah/15)[ Commentary](/study/isaiah/15)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/isaiah/15) Audio 1 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, *and* brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, *and* brought to silence;* 2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads *shall be* baldness, *and* every beard cut off. 3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.* 4 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. 5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives *shall flee* unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.** 6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.* 7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.* 8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim. 9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.* [Isaiah 14](/study/isaiah/14) [Isaiah 16](/study/isaiah/16) ## Commentary To verse 1 **1. Because**—rather, "Surely"; literally, "(I affirm) that" [MAURER]. **night**—the time best suited for a hostile incursion ([Isaiah 21:4](/kjv/isaiah/21/4); [Jeremiah 39:4](/kjv/jeremiah/39/4)). **Ar**—meaning in *Hebrew,* "the city"; the metropolis of Moab, on the south of the river Arnon. **Kir**—literally, "a citadel"; not far from Ar, towards the south. **He**—Moab personified. **Bajith**—rather, "to the *temple*" [MAURER]; answering to the "sanctuary" ([Jeremiah 39:4](/kjv/jeremiah/39/4)- :), in a similar context. **to Dibon**—Rather, as Dibon was in *a plain* north of the Arnon, "Dibon (is gone up) to the high places," the usual places of sacrifice in the East. Same town as Dimon ([Jeremiah 39:4](/kjv/jeremiah/39/4)- :). **to weep**—at the sudden calamity. **over Nebo**—rather "in Nebo"; not "on account of" Nebo (compare [Jeremiah 39:4](/kjv/jeremiah/39/4)- :) [MAURER]. The town Nebo was adjacent to the mountain, not far from the northern shore of the Dead Sea. There it was that Chemosh, the idol of Moab, was worshipped (compare [Deuteronomy 34:1](/kjv/deuteronomy/34/1)). **Medeba**—south of Heshbon, on a hill east of Jordan. **baldness . . . beard cut off**—The Orientals regarded the beard with peculiar veneration. 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