Isaiah 15:6 BSB — MannaFest

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.

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ASV

For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass faileth, there is no green thing.

KJV

For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

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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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For the waters of Nimrim - It is supposed by some that the prophet here states the cause why the Moabites would flee to the cities of the south, to wit, that the “waters” of the northern cities would fail, and the country become desolate, and that they would seek support in the south. But it is more probable that he is simply continuing the description of the desolation that would come upon Moab. Nimrah, or Beth Nimra, meaning a “house of limpid waters,” was a city of Reuben east of the Dead Sea (Num 32:3; compare Jer 48:34).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּֽי־	ki-	that	H3588 →
מֵ֥י	mei	[the] waters of	H4325 →
נִמְרִ֖ים	nim.Rim	Nimrim	H5249 →
מְשַׁמּ֣וֹת	me.sha.Mot	wastes	H4923 →
יִֽהְי֑וּ	yih.Yu	they are	H1961 →
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
יָבֵ֤שׁ	ya.Vesh	it has dried up	H3001 →
חָצִיר֙	cha.Tzir	grass	H2682 →
כָּ֣לָה	Ka.lah	it has wasted away	H3615 →
דֶ֔שֶׁא	De.she'	vegetation	H1877 →
יֶ֖רֶק	Ye.rek	greenery	H3418 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
הָיָֽה׃	ha.Yah	it is	H1961 →

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Where the connections lead

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Through
Revelation 8:7
Then the first angel sounded his trumpet, and hail and fire mixed with blood were hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, along with a third of the…
leads to
- Ezekiel 38:22
  I will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrents of rain, hailstones, fire, and sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.
- Revelation 9:4
  They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
- Revelation 9:18
  A third of mankind was killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke, and sulfur that proceeded from their mouths.
- Revelation 9:15
  So the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.
- Isaiah 28:2
  Behold, the Lord has one who is strong and mighty. Like a hailstorm or destructive tempest, like a driving rain or flooding downpour, he will smash that crown to the ground.
Through
Numbers 32:3
“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
leads to
- Isaiah 16:8–9
  For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the…
- Joshua 13:17
  to Heshbon and all its cities on the plateau, including Dibon, Bamoth-baal, Beth-baal-meon,
- Numbers 32:34–38
  And the Gadites built up Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

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