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Chapter 15
Prophecy about Moab. It will be destroyed in a night, the people will wail as survivors flee. But they will be taken also.
This first verse:
1 An oracle concerning Moab. Because Ar of Moab is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone; because Kir of Moab is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone. [Isa 15:1 ESV]
Here is that word Kir again. The captives of Damascus were taken to Kir, and now this reference seems as if Kir is in Moab, south of Damascus. Did the Assyrians move on from the destruction of Damascus and continue south into Moab? It might well have been next on their list!
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