Text Appearing Before Image: ly was no city togrow up in a day and fade in a night ! It surely did notdepend for prosperity on the changeable channel of commerce!Something above and beyond mere natural causes and influ-ences must have operated here. We can only understand itsstrange history when we read it in the light of prophecy.Then we can see the impress of a mightier than human hand.We can see that the curse of an angry God for the sin of arebellious people has fallen upon Bozrah, and upon all thecities of the land of Moab far and near (Jer. xlviii. 24). Two Bozrahs are mentioned in the Bible. One was in Edom,and is referred to in the well-known passage, Who is this thatcometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah ? (Isa.Ixiii. 1). Upon this ancient city judgments are pronounced inconnection with Edom and Teman, whose inhabitants dwelt in the clefts of the rocks, and the heights of the hills, andmade their houses like the nests of the eagles (Jer. xlix.7-22.) When pronouncing judgment upon Moab, the same Text Appearing After Image: HISTORY OF BOZRAH. 73 prophet says, Judgment is come upon the plain countryand he names the cities which stood in the plain, and amongthem are Beth-gamul, Kerioth, and Bozrah (Jer. xlviii. 21-24).Evidently these predictions cannot refer to the same place.Another fact still more conclusively establishes the point.After completing the sentence of Moab, including one Bozrah,the Spirit of God adds, Yet will I bring again the captivity ofMoab in the latter days (Jer. xlviii. 47); whereas in Edomsdoom we have these terrible words, For I have sworn bymyself, saith the Lord, that Bozrah shall become a desolation,a reproach, a waste, and a curse \ and all the cities thereofshall be perpetual wastes (Jer. xlix. 13).* The plain of Moab embraced a large part of the plateau eastof the Dead Sea and the Jordan. A short time before theexodus the Amorites conquered the northern part of that plain;and from them it was taken by the tribes of Reuben and Gad.It is doubtful whether the Moabites were ever c
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