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Isaiah 15 — Sermon Preparation

Below is a research summary for Isaiah 15, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.

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Isaiah 15 in the Hebrew

Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.

Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Count Glosses
מוֹאָב Môwʼâb H4124 8 Moab
בְּכִי Bᵉkîy H1065 3 weeping, dripping
דִּימוֹן Dîymôwn H1775 2 Dimon
יְלָלָה yᵉlâlâh H3215 2 howling
זַעַק zaʻaq H2201 2 shriek, outcry
יָלַל yâlal H3213 2 howl, yell
דָּמָה dâmâh H1820 2 be dumb, silent

How preachers through history handled this text

2 public-domain excerpts on Isaiah 15, from the church fathers to the Puritans.

Matthew Henry 1 John Wesley 1

“This chapter, and that which follows it, are the burden of Moab--a prophecy of some great desolation that was coming upon that country, which bordered upon this land of Israel, and had often been injurious and vexatious to it, though the Moabites were descended from Lot, Abraham's kinsman and companion, and though the Israelites, by the appointment of God, had spared them when they might both easily and justly have cut them off with their neighbours. In this chapter we have, I. …”

— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 4 (Isaiah to Malachi), on Isaiah 15:1–30 (Public Domain)

Places in the text

Based on ancient-geography data

  • Ar — Isa 15:1
  • Kir 2 — Isa 15:1
  • Moab 1 — Isa 15:1
  • Dibon 1 — Isa 15:2
  • Medeba — Isa 15:2

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