Isaiah 16:1 Send you the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, to the mount of the daughter of Zion. A very terrible humiliation had already been inflicted on Moab in the reign of Jehoram, King of Israel (2 Kings 3:4, 25). During Ahab's reign, Moab had been compelled to pay a very heavy annual tribute, even 100,000 lambs and 100,000 rams. Refusal to pay led to war from time to time; war resulting, however, invariably in the defeat of the Moabites. In such circumstances the prophet urges upon Moab the wisdom of paying this tribute without trouble or demur. (Buchanan Blake, B. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion. |
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