From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.
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Interpretation
The destruction of Moab is further prophesied, to awaken them by national repentance and reformation to prevent the trouble, or by a personal repentance and reformation to prepare for it.
Glossary
- Heshbon Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Tell Hesban.
- Horonaim Place
- Two caverns, a city of Moab to the south of the Arnon, built, apparently, upon an eminence, and a place of some importance ( Isa. 15:5 ; Jer. 48:3 , 5, 34). Modern identification: El Iraq.
- Jahaz Place
- Trodden down. Modern identification: Khirbet el Medeiyineh.
- Eglath-shelishiyah Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Al Safi.
- Elealeh Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Al ‘Al.
- Nimrim Place
- The stream of the leopards, a stream in Moab ( Isa. 15:6 ; Jer. 48:34 ); probably the modern Wady en-Nemeirah, a rich, verdant spot at the south-eastern end of the Dead Sea. Modern identification: Wadi en Numeirah.
- Zoar Place
- Small, a town on the east or south-east of the Dead Sea, to which Lot and his daughters fled from Sodom ( Gen. 19:22 , 23). It was originally called Bela (14:2, 8). Modern identification: Al Safi.