The Burden of Moab: Isaiah 15
Isaiah testifies, in chapter 15. and verses 15 and 16, as follow:… This declaration is plain enough; if words mean anything, it is impossible not to see that the Lord God still holds on to the resolution to create a great name in the earth. Nothing can turn Him from His purpose in this matter; and though many more generations of Jews and Gentiles should prove “profitable for nothing,” He would still go on the old plan of “taking out,” from fresh generations, “a people for His name.”
— The Ambassador of the Coming Age, Volume 6, 1869, Page 257-258
We discover that evil is not the exception but the rule in the lot of man. Our reading from Isaiah this morning (15.) gives us a picture of something that in one form or other is universal. It is a scene of pillage and bloodshed and ruin and tears—a whole district desolated in a single night, and the whole population out next day in bitter lamentation in the open fields. “In the night Ar of Moab is laid waste and brought to silence.” Moab, “gone up to the high places to weep:” everyone weeping and howling: their voice heard even unto Jazer. Distress and care are not always to be seen in this acute form; but in some shape or ther, in all countries, in every age, in our own age every day, evil reigns. It reigns intensely.
— The Christadelphian, Volume 27, 1890, Page 245
Now, in Isaiah 15., a chapter referring to the “Burden of Moab,” we have these and other cities mentioned as appertaining to Moab and not to Gad. The inscription on this Moabite Stone explains the matter. The inscription says that “the children of Gad” had dwelt in the land of Moab and possessed their cities, but Mesha records that, in his revolt against Israel, he recovered them, and restored them to his kingdom. A perusal of the inscription on this stone invests the chapters in Numbers and Isaiah with much interest, and again the Bible is confirmed in its historial statements.
— The Christadelphian, Volume 34, 1897, Page 34
Also see Ministry of the Prophets Isaiah, Chapter 15.
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