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Isaiah 15:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

burden: This and the following chapter form one entire prophecy; which was most probably delivered, as Bp. Lowth supposes, soon after the foregoing (Isaiah 14:28-32), in the first year of Hezekiah, and accomplished in his fourth year when Shalmaneser invaded Israel. Isaiah 13:1, Isaiah 14:28

Moab: Isaiah 11:14, Isaiah 25:10; Jeremiah 9:26, Jeremiah 48:1-47; Ezekiel 25:8-11; Amos 2:1-3; Zephaniah 2:8-11

in the: Exodus 12:29-30; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-3

Ar: Numbers 21:28; Deuteronomy 2:9, Deuteronomy 2:18

brought to silence: or, cut off

Kir: Isaiah 16:7, Kir-hareseth, Isaiah 16:11, Kir-haresh, 2 Kings 3:25, Kir-haraseth, Jeremiah 48:31, Jeremiah 48:36, Kir-heres

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