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Selected Verse: Isaiah 15:6 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Isa 15:6 |
Strong Concordance |
For the waters [04325] of Nimrim [05249] shall be desolate [04923]: for the hay [02682] is withered away [03001], the grass [01877] faileth [03615], there is no green thing [03418]. |
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King James |
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
For--the cause of their flight southwards (Kg2 3:19, Kg2 3:25). "For" the northern regions and even the city Nimrim (the very name of which means "limpid waters," in Gilead near Jordan) are without water or herbage. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
For the waters of Nimrim - It is supposed by some that the prophet here states the cause why the Moabites would flee to the cities of the south, to wit, that the "waters" of the northern cities would fail, and the country become desolate, and that they would seek support in the south. But it is more probable that he is simply continuing the description of the desolation that would come upon Moab. Nimrah, or Beth Nimra, meaning a "house of limpid waters," was a city of Reuben east of the Dead Sea (Num 32:3; compare Jer 48:34). It was, doubtless, a city celebrated for its pure fountains and springs of water. Here Seetzen's chart shows a brook flowing into the Jordan called "Nahr Nimrim, or Wady Shoaib." 'On the east of the Jordan over against Jericho, there is now a stream called Nimlim - doubtless the ancient Nimrim. This flows into the Jordan, and as it flows along gives fertility to that part of the country of Moab.' (Eli Smith.) It is possible that the waters failed by a common practice in times of war when an enemy destroyed the fountains of a country by diverting their waters, or by casting into them stones, trees, etc. This destructive measure of war occurs, with reference to Moab, in Kg2 3:25, when the Israelites, during an incursion into Moab, felled the fruit trees, cast stones into the plowed grounds, and "closed the fountains, or wells."
For the hay is withered away - The waters are dried up, and the land yields nothing to support life. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Waters - Watery grounds being very fruitful, are commonly most inhabited; but now they also, much more the dry and barren grounds, shall be desolate and without inhabitant. |
25 And they beat down [02040] the cities [05892], and on every good [02896] piece [02513] of land cast [07993] every man [0376] his stone [068], and filled [04390] it; and they stopped [05640] all the wells [04599] of water [04325], and felled [05307] all the good [02896] trees [06086]: only in Kirharaseth [07025] left [07604] they the stones [068] thereof; howbeit the slingers [07051] went about [05437] it, and smote [05221] it.
19 And ye shall smite [05221] every fenced [04013] city [05892], and every choice [04004] city [05892], and shall fell [05307] every good [02896] tree [06086], and stop [05640] all wells [04599] of water [04325], and mar [03510] every good [02896] piece [02513] of land with stones [068].
25 And they beat down [02040] the cities [05892], and on every good [02896] piece [02513] of land cast [07993] every man [0376] his stone [068], and filled [04390] it; and they stopped [05640] all the wells [04599] of water [04325], and felled [05307] all the good [02896] trees [06086]: only in Kirharaseth [07025] left [07604] they the stones [068] thereof; howbeit the slingers [07051] went about [05437] it, and smote [05221] it.
34 From the cry [02201] of Heshbon [02809] even unto Elealeh [0500], and even unto Jahaz [03096], have they uttered [05414] their voice [06963], from Zoar [06820] even unto Horonaim [02773], as an heifer [05697] of three years old [07992]: for the waters [04325] also of Nimrim [05249] shall be desolate [04923].
3 Ataroth [05852], and Dibon [01769], and Jazer [03270], and Nimrah [05247], and Heshbon [02809], and Elealeh [0500], and Shebam [07643], and Nebo [05015], and Beon [01194],