פירוש על ישעיהו 15:2

They went up to the temple, and Dibon Moab went up to the temple, and the people of Dibon to the high places.

הבית The inhabitant of Bayith.⁷A. V., To Bajith. יושב הבית═הבית;

to weep These would weep in the temple, and these would weep atop their high places.

Bayith is a place in Moab.⁸I. E. does not take the high places as in apposition to Bajith and Dibon, because Dibon is mentioned as the name of a town which the Gadites had built (Numb. 32:34), while במה a high place, is only a sanctuary for worship and sacrifice.

To the high places. In order to worship the idols.

Their heads. The heads of the Moabites.

גרועה A cutting. It is a noun, (not a participle); comp. חבלתו חוב his pledge for the debt⁹גרועה can be participle passive fem. Kal of גדע to cut, or a noun like גבורה victory. (Ex. 32:18); the former is rejected, probably because וקן is masculine. It is, however, not clear why reference is made to Ez. 18:7; if it were only to prove the existence of a form פְּעוּלָה for nouns, better examples could be given, and even from the book of Isaiah itself; עזובה (6:12) is declared by I. E. to be a noun; and ובחברתו And with his stripes (53:5) is certainly nearer and more similar to גְּדוּעָה than is חֲבֹלָתוֹ. The quotation is perhaps intended to be an example for the omission of the preposition ב before כל וקן. This ellipsis is explained by I. E. in two ways; by assuming that the preposition is sometimes omitted, e.g. חבלתו בחוב═חבלתו חוב, or by extending the force of the preposition before בל ראשיו, and referring it also to כל זקן. (Ez. 18:7).

The preposition ב on before כל ראשיו governs also .¹⁰The passage is to be rendered, according to I. E., And on every beard is cutting.כל זקן Comp. Gen. 49:25.¹¹The words referred to are מאל אביך ויעזרך ואת שדי, which are equal to מאל אביך ויעזרך ומאת שדי By the Lord of thy father, who shall help thee, and by the Almighty.