Isaiah 15:8

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁶The waters of Nimrim are dried up; the grass is withered, the foliage is gone, and the vegetation has vanished. ⁷So they carry their wealth and belongings over the Brook of the Willows. ⁸For their outcry echoes to the border of Moab. Their wailing reaches Eglaim; it is heard in Beer-elim.⁹The waters of Dimon are full of blood, but I will bring more upon Dimon-a lion on the fugitives of Moab, and on the remnant of the land.

Bible Verse Review
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the cry: Isaiah 15:2-5, Jeremiah 48:20-24, Jeremiah 48:31-34

Eglaim: Ezekiel 47:10, En-eglaim, Eglaim is called Agallim by Eusebius, who places it eight miles south from Ar or Areopolis.

Reciprocal: Exodus 11:6 - General Isaiah 23:1 - Howl Jeremiah 47:2 - then the Amos 5:16 - Wailing

Cross-References

Genesis 15:2
But Abram replied, "O Lord GOD, what can You give me, since I remain childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?"

Genesis 15:4
Then the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "This one will not be your heir, but one who comes from your own body will be your heir."

Genesis 15:9
And the LORD said to him, "Bring Me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a turtledove and a young pigeon."

Genesis 15:10
So Abram brought all these to Him, split each of them down the middle, and laid the halves opposite each other. The birds, however, he did not cut.

Genesis 15:13
Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own; they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

Genesis 15:14
But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.

Genesis 15:17
When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.

2 Kings 20:8
Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, "What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?"

Psalms 86:17
Show me a sign of Your goodness, that my enemies may see and be ashamed; for You, O LORD, have helped me and comforted me.

Isaiah 7:11
"Ask for a sign from the LORD your God, whether from the depths of Sheol or the heights of heaven."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the cry is gone found about the borders of Moab,.... The cry of destruction and howling because of it; the places mentioned, as is observed by some, being upon the borders of the land. Heshbon was on the north east, Elealeh on the north west, Jahaz on the south west, Horonaim further west, Zoar the utmost west, and the places following seem to be upon the borders likewise:

the howling thereof unto Eglaim; which word signifies a border, and so the Arabic word Agalon; some take it to be the same with the brooks of Arnon, Numbers 21:13 said so be the border of Moab:

and the howling thereof unto Beerelim; the same with Beer,

Numbers 21:16 called Beerelim, or "the well of the mighty ones", being dug by the princes of Israel, Numbers 21:18.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the cry is gone round about ... - The cry of distress and calamity has encompassed the whole land of Moab. There is no part of the land which is not filled with lamentation and distress.

The howling - The voice of wailing on account of the distress.

Unto Eglaim - This was a city of Moab east of the Dead Sea, which, Eusebius says, was eight miles south of Ar, and hence, says Rosenmuller, it was not far from the south border of Moab. It is mentioned by Josephus (“Ant.” xiv. 1), as one of the twelve cities in that region which was overthrown by Alexander the Great.

Unto Beer-elim - literally, “the well of the princes.” Perhaps the same as that mentioned in Numbers 21:14-18, as being in the land of Moab, and near to Ar:

The princes digged the well,

The nobles of the people digged it.