Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 15:1

THe burden of Moab : Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence ; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence:

A Prophecy of the Destruction of the Moabites, the inveterate and implacable Enemies of the Iews, begun by the Assyrian, and finished by the Babylonian Emperours.

Or, in a night, suddenly and unexpectedly; for Men sleep securely in the Night, and therefore the Evils which then overtake them, are most terrible to them.

The chief City of Moab, Numb. 21. 28. Deut. 2. 9.

Or rather, is cut off, as the Word oft signifies, as Ier. 47. 5. Hos. 10. 9, 15. and elsewhere.

Another eminent City of Moab, called more largely and fully Kir-heres, and Kir-Haresheth, Isa. 16. 7, 11. Ier. 48. 31, 36.

Marginal references: Ezek. 25. 8. Amos 2. 1.; Or, cut off.