Today's Favorite Verse: Isaiah 15:5
"My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction."
I was actually curious about this 3 year old heifer. The footnote says "IE Zoar should still have been young and vigorous".
"Isaiah recognized that Moab was a youthful, vibrant nation. “A three-year-old ox, is one that is still in all the freshness and fulness of its strength” In spite of Moab’s vigor and strength, Isaiah foretold that powerful forces from the north countries would destroy her only three years hence (see Isaiah 16:14). This prophecy was fulfilled with the Assyrian invasion under Sennacherib"
(Old Testament Student Manual, "A Voice of Warning to the Wicked (Isaiah 13-23)", 14-19)
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