Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded [and] taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.
Ver. 1. Against Moab.] That bastardly brood, infamous for their inveterate hatred of God's Israel, at whom they were anciently irked, fretted, vexed, though no way provoked, Num 22:3 whom also they outwitted, by the counsel of Balaam, in the business of Baal-peor, Numbers 25:1,3 ; Num 25:16-18 had been plagued and judged by the kings of Israel, by David especially, as also by Sennacherib, Isaiah 15:1,9 ; Isa 16:1-14 but were no whit amended; and are therefore here, and Ezekiel 25:9, threatened with utter destruction by the Chaldeans, and that very much in a scoffing way; like as they were a proud, petulant, scornful people, despisers of all other nations, but especially of the Jews, their near neighbours and allies.
Woe unto Nebo.] Their oracular city, as it may seem by the name. See Isaiah 15:2 .
Kiriathaim is confounded.] It is of a dual form, and so seemeth to have been Bipolis, a double city; as was of old Jerusalem, and as are now Rome, Prague, Craeovia.
Misgab is confounded.] It signifieth the high place, and is the same, say some, with Bamoth, Num 21:20 and Selah. Isa 16:1