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Jeremiah 48:3

A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.

Horonaim - the same as the city Avara, mentioned by Ptolemy. The word means the double caves (Sanballat, the opponent of the re-building of the temple, was a "Horonite" - i:e., a Moabite of Horonaim, ; ).

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See also Jeremiah 48:3 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 48:3. _HORONAIM_] Another city of Moab, near to Luhith. At this latter place the _hill country_ of Moab commenced. "It is a place," says _Dahler_, "situated upon a height between _Areop...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Omit shall be. “Spoiling and great destruction,” literally breaking, is the cry heard from Horonaim Isaiah 15:5....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 48 Concerning Moab _ 1. The overthrow of Moab (Jeremiah 48:1) _ 2. The humiliation of Moab (Jeremiah 48:11) 3. Reaping what they sowed (Jeremiah 48:20) 4. Destroyed o

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 48. MOAB (the territory E. of the Dead Sea, from Wady Kerak in the S. to the neighbourhood of Heshbon in the N.). Many of the numerous places named in this prophecy will be found on G. A. Smi...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HORONAIM. Probably near Zoar. Compare Isaiah 15:5....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    A. Advancing Devastation Jeremiah 48:1-6 TRANSLATION (1) Concerning Moab: Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Woe unto Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is put to shame, is captured;...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    IV. THE ORACLE AGAINST MOAB Jeremiah 48:1-47 The Moabites occupied the region east of the Dead Sea and for the most part south of the river Arnon. The Arnon flows through a steep, twisting gorge in th...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    AGAINST MOAB Moab, in recompense for its pride and security, and for its triumphing over Israel in the day of her calamity, shall itself be laid waste and taken captive: cp. the 'burden of Moab 'in I...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HORONAIM — literally, _the two caverns,_ or the two Horons — may imply, like other dual names of towns, that there was an upper and a lower city. It is mentioned in Isaiah 15:5, but has not been ident...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    קֹ֥ול צְעָקָ֖ה מֵ חֹֽרֹונָ֑יִם שֹׁ֖ד וָ שֶׁ֥ב

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XIX MOAB Jeremiah 48:1 "Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against Jehovah."- Jeremiah 48:42 "Chemosh said to me, Go, take Nebo against Israeland...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The word of the Lord concerning Moab is a judgment, which nevertheless closes with a gleam of hope. The judgment is described, first, from the standpoint of the scourge. The widespread extent of it is...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The Prophet Jeremiah, whom the Lord when giving him his commission, had set over the nations and over the kingdoms, (see Jeremiah 1:10) is here arraigning, trying, and condemning Moab; and an awful co...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    By naming many cities, he shews that the whole land was doomed to ruin, so that no corner of it would be exempt from destruction. For the Moabites might have suffered some loss without much injury had...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 45 THROUGH 51. Chapter 45 gives us the prophecy with respect to Baruch, already mentioned. Chapter 46 and following Chapter s contain the prophecies against t...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    A VOICE OF CRYING [SHALL BE] FROM HORONAIM,.... Another city of Moab. The word is of the dual number; and, according to Kimchi and Ben Melech, there were two Horons, the upper and the lower; of this p...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _A voice of crying [shall be] from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction._ Ver. 3. _A voice of crying._] They would not cry for their sins: they shall therefore cry for their miseries with despera...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _There shall be no more praise of Moab_ The glory of Moab shall be contemned, as Isaiah speaks, Isaiah 16:14. Every thing for which it was famous shall be destroyed. _In Heshbon they have devised evil...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE COMING DEVASTATION OF MOAB DESCRIBED...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, a village east of the Dead Sea, SPOILING AND GREAT DESTRUCTION, the town sinking into ruins....

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Another city of Moab, mentioned only in this place, and in ISAIAH 15:5. Some think it the same with Horon, where Sanballat was born, NEHEMIAH 2:10, NEHEMIAH 13:28. The prophet threatens also ruin and...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 48:3 voice H6963 crying H6818 Horonaim H2773 Plundering H7701 great H1419 destruction H7667 voice -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    D). PROPHECY AGAINST MOAB (JEREMIAH 48:1). Whilst the Philistines were a constant trouble to Israel/Judah from the west, mainly troubling western Israel/Judah, eastern Israel/Judah, especially east of...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DESTRUCTION OF MOAB (JEREMIAH 48:1). Note how, as in Isaiah 15, the towns and prominent places are mentioned by name. Some of them were towns that had been taken over from Israel (compare Mesha's...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Prophecy against Moab. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Jehovah has all armies at His command. He will in His own time plead the cause of His people against a people that have always...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 48:1. _Against Moab, saith the Lord._ Isaiah had prophesied of the devastation of Moab by Salmaneser: chap. 15, 16. Jeremiah here speaks of the terrible conquest of the country by Nebuchadnez...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 48:3 HORONAIM. Location uncertain, perhaps in southwest Moab. If so, cities from north (vv. Jeremiah 48:1) to south have suffered in the invasio

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—Naegelsbach suggests, with ample justification, that “this prophecy certainly belongs to the time of Jehoiakim, and _before the fourth year...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION This prophecy is so full of repetitions that the question has naturally arisen whether the most prominent of these may not be due to interpolation. For instance: 1.Jeremiah 48:29-24 recur...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    In forty-eight, he now directs his attention to Moab. Moab was across the Jordan on the east side of the Jordan River and of the Jordan rift. Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Isr...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 15:2; Isaiah 15:5; Isaiah 15:8; Isaiah 16:7; Isaiah 22:4;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Horoniam — Another city of Moab....

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