Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 15:2

2 He is gone up to Bajith , and to Dibon , the high places, to weep : Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba , on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off .

Which signifies an house. It is supposed to be the Name of a Place so called from some eminent House or Temple of their Idols which was in it. It is called more fully Beth-baal-meon, that is, The house of Baals habitation, Ios. 13. 17.

Another City of Moab, as is manifest from Ier. 48. 18, 22. where also was their other eminent High places. To these two Places they used to resort in case of great Difficulties and Troubles.

To offer their Supplications with Tears to their Idols for help.

Two considerable Cities, anciently belonging to the Moabites, from whom they were taken by the Amorites, and from them by the Israelites, and possessed by the Reubenites, Numb. 21. 30. & 32. 3, 38. but were, as it seems, recovered by the Moabites, in whose hands they now were, as is evident, for Nebo, Ier. 48. 1, 22. and for Medeba, from this Text.

The Hair of their Heads and Beards (which was their Ornament) was shaved, as was usual in great Mournings, as hath been oft observed upon di[illegible: 1+ letters]ers preceding Texts. See on Levit. 19. 27, 28. & 21. 5.

Marginal references: Jer. 47. 5. & 48. 37, 38. Ezek. 7. 18.