“Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.”
King James Version (KJV)
48:13 Bethel - The golden calves, which Jeroboam set up at Dan and Bethel.
48:16 Is near - Josephus tells us this destruction came upon the Moabites five years after the siege of Jerusalem.
48:17 Staff - A staff and a rod are as well, ensigns of power and government, as instruments to punish offenders.