Isaiah 15:1

This oracle announces Moab's sudden devastation, its chief cities laid waste in a single night. The proud neighbor of Israel faces swift and total ruin.

Cross-references · 17

• Amos 2:1–3This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Moab, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he burned to lime the bones of Edom’s king.
• Jer 48:1–47Concerning Moab, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Woe to Nebo, for it will be devastated. Kiriathaim will be captured and disgraced; the fortress will be shattered and dismantled.
• Isa 11:14They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west; together they will plunder the sons of the east. They will lay their hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.
• Num 21:28For a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon’s heights.
• Ezek 25:8–11This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Moab and Seir said, “Look, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,”
• Isa 25:10For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain. But Moab will be trampled in his place as straw is trodden into the dung pile.
• Isa 14:28In the year that King Ahaz died, this burden was received:
• Zeph 2:8–11“I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have taunted My people and threatened their borders.
• Isa 16:11Therefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp, my inmost being for Kir-heres.
• 1 Th 5:1–3Now about the times and seasons, brothers, we do not need to write to you.
• Isa 16:7Therefore let Moab wail; let them wail together for Moab. Moan for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth, you who are utterly stricken.
• Jer 9:26Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all the inhabitants of the desert who clip the hair of their temples. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.”
• Exod 12:29–30Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among the livestock.
• 2 Kgs 3:25They destroyed the cities, and each man threw stones on every good field until it was covered. They stopped up every spring and cut down every good tree. Only Kir-haraseth was left with stones in place, but men with slings surrounded it and attacked it as well.
• Isa 13:1This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:
• Deut 2:9Then the LORD said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.”
• Deut 2:18“Today you are going to cross the border of Moab at Ar.

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