Nimrim

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• Waters on the borders of the tribe of Gad and the country of MoabIsaiah 15:6Jeremiah 48:34

The passages, in Bible order (2)

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1. Isaiah 15:6

   The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.

   ›Commentary on Isaiah 15:62 voices

   “For--the cause of their flight southwards (2Ki 3:19, 25). "For" the northern regions and even the city Nimrim (the very name of which means "limpid waters," in Gilead near Jordan) are without water or herbage.

   “For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate,.... Or dried up, through a great drought that should come upon the land at this time; or being defiled with the blood of the slain, as Jarchi: it may denote the well watered pastures about Nimrim, that should become the forage of the enemy, and be trodden under foot by its army, or be forsaken by the proprietors of them.

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2. Jeremiah 48:34

   There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; they raise their voices to Jahaz, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim have dried up.

   ›Commentary on Jeremiah 48:342 voices

   “From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh,.... Two cities in the land of Moab; of which see Isa 15:

   “As a heifer of three years old - Which runs lowing from place to place in search of her calf, which is lost or taken from her.

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