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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Isaiah 16

Chapter 16

Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.

the lamb

2 Samuel 8:2 2 Kings 3:4 Ezra 7:17

from

2 Kings 14:7

Sela

or, Petra. Heb. a rock. the mount.

10:32 Micah 4:8

For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

as

13:14 Proverbs 27:8

cast out of the nest

or, a nest forsaken. the fords.

Numbers 21:13-15 Deuteronomy 2:36 3:8,12 Joshua 13:16 Judges 11:18

Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.

Take

Heb. Bring. execute.

1:17 Psalms 82:3,4 Jeremiah 21:12 22:3 Ezekiel 45:9-12 Daniel 4:27 Zechariah 7:9

make

9:6 25:4 32:2 Judges 9:15 Jonah 4:5-8

hide

56:8 Obadiah 1:12-14 Matthew 25:35 Hebrews 13:2

Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

mine

Deuteronomy 23:15,16 24:14 Jeremiah 21:12

for

14:4 33:1 51:13 Jeremiah 48:8,18 Zechariah 9:8

extortioner

Heb. wringer. oppressors. Heb. treaders down.

15:6 25:10 Zechariah 10:5 Malachi 4:3 Luke 21:24 Romans 16:20 Revelation 11:2

And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.

in mercy

Psalms 61:6,7 85:10 89:1,2,14 Proverbs 20:28 29:14 Luke 1:69-75

established

or, prepared. in the.

9:6,7 2 Samuel 5:9 7:16 Jeremiah 23:5,6 Daniel 7:14,27 Amos 9:11 Micah 4:7 Luke 1:31-33 Acts 15:16,17

judging

11:1-5 32:1,2 2 Samuel 23:3 1 Kings 10:9 2 Chronicles 31:20 Psalms 72:2-4 96:13 Psalms 98:9 99:4 Zechariah 9:9 Hebrews 1:8,9

hasting

2 Peter 3:11,12

We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.

have

2:11 Jeremiah 48:26,29,30,42 Amos 2:1 Obadiah 1:3,4 Zephaniah 2:9,10 1 Peter 5:5

but

28:15,18 44:25 Jeremiah 50:36

Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kirhareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.

shall Moab

15:2-5 Jeremiah 48:20

Kir-hareseth

11 15:1 2 Kings 3:25

mourn

or, mutter.

8:19

For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.

the fields

15:4 24:7 2 Samuel 1:21

the vine

9 Numbers 32:38

Shibmah

Joshua 13:19

the lords

10:7 Jeremiah 27:6,7

Jazer

Numbers 32:3 Joshua 13:25

stretched out

or, plucked up.

Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.

I will bewail

15:5 Jeremiah 48:32-34

O Heshbon

15:4

for

9:3 Judges 9:27 Jeremiah 40:10,12

the shouting for

or, the alarm is fallen upon, etc.

And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.

24:8,9 32:10 Jeremiah 48:33 Amos 5:11,17 Habakkuk 3:17,18 Zephaniah 1:13

Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.

my

15:5 63:15 Jeremiah 4:19 31:20 48:36 Hosea 11:8 Philippians 2:1

Kir-haresh

Kir-hareseth

Verse 12

And it shall come to pass, when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place, that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray; but he shall not prevail.

when

15:2 26:16 Numbers 22:39,41 23:1-3,14,28 24:17 Proverbs 1:28 Jeremiah 48:35

he shall

37:38 1 Kings 11:7 2 Kings 3:27 Jeremiah 48:7,13,46

but

47:13 2 Kings 19:12,16-19 Psalms 115:3-7 Jeremiah 10:5

This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.

since

44:8

But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.

three

7:16 15:5 21:16 Deuteronomy 15:8

the glory

17:4 23:9 Genesis 31:1 Esther 5:11 Jeremiah 9:23 Nahum 2:9,10

and the remnant

Jeremiah 48:46,47

feeble

or, not many.