Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
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Gill's Exposition
The calamity of Moab is near to come,.... As it did come within live years after the destruction of Jerusalem, as observed on Jer 48:12; out of Josephus:
and his affliction hasteth fast: or, "his…
Barnes' Notes
Rather, “Moab is spoiled,” and her cities have gone up, i. e., in smoke, have been burned Jos 8:20-21. Others render, “The waster of Moab and of her towns is coming up to the attack, and her chosen…
The destruction is here further prophesied of very largely and with a great copiousness and variety of expression, and very pathetically and in moving language, designed not only to awaken them by a…
Cambridge Bible
Moab … her cities The Hebrew is difficult. Dr., followed by Pe., alters the MT. on the model of Jer 48:48, so as to read, "The spoiler of Moab is come up against him, and his, etc."
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