Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Jeremiah 48:23
and upon Kiria-thaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon,
and upon Kiria-thaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon,
BETH-MEON - Meon is probably the Moabite Olympus, and thus Beth-Baal-Meon, the full name of this town Joshua 13:17, would signify the place where the heavenly Baal was worshipped....
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
Enumeration of the cities which are to suffer (Jeremiah 48:20). The strength of Moab is destroyed, and Moab is become drunken (with the cup of Yahweh, Jeremiah 25:15), an object of present derision, a...
BETH-GAMUL. Now _Khan Jemail,_ east of Dibon. BETH-MEON. Now _Tell M'ain._ Compare Joshua 13:17....
The metrical arrangement begun in Jeremiah 48:17 ends in the middle of Jeremiah 48:20. From "tell ye it" onwards to the end of Jeremiah 48:24 is in all probability a later addition. Of the places not...
See introd. summary to the ch....
_Kiriathaim_ See on Jeremiah 48:1. _Beth-gamul_ now _Umm el Jemâl_, S. of Medeba. _Beth-meon_ the B. of Numbers 32:36; Ezekiel 25:9; called Beth-baal-meon in...
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...
D. Complete Degradation Jeremiah 48:18-28 TRANSLATION (18) Go down from your glory! Sit in thirst, O delicate daughter of Dibon; for the destroyer of Moab has gone up against you; he will destroy you...
And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmeon, BETH-GAMUL - meaning the city of camels. BETH-MEON - the house of habitation. Beth-baal-meon (). Now its ruins are called Miun....
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...
KIRIATHAIM. — See Jeremiah 48:1. BETH-GAMUL. — The place is not named in the earlier lists of Numbers 32:34 and Joshua 13:16. The name (=house of the camel) has a parallel in Gamala, and appears in th...
וְ עַ֧ל קִרְיָתַ֛יִם וְ עַל ־בֵּ֥ית גָּמ֖וּל...
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...
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...
It would swell our Commentary to a length indeed, to enter minutely into the several branches of the visitations here set forth. Indeed it would only when done, tend to confirm what hardly needs furth...
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...
AND UPON KIRJATHAIM,.... Of which see Jeremiah 48:1; AND UPON BETHGAMUL; this is nowhere else mentioned in Scripture; supposed by Grotius to be the Maccala of Ptolemy, put for Camala: AND UPON BETHM...
And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Bethgamul, and upon Bethmeon, Ver. 23. _And upon Kiriathaim._] See on Jeremiah 48:1 . _ And upon Bethmeon._] "Baiith" Isaiah calleth it. Jer 15:2...
_Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon_ Thou that art exalted in pride, and rendered effeminate through luxury: Dibon being one of the chief cities of Moab; _come down from thy glory, and sit in thirs...
14-47. The destruction of Moab is further prophesied, to awaken them by national repentance and reformation to prevent the trouble, or by a personal repentance and reformation to prepare for it. In r...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Jeremiah 48:23 Kirjathaim H7156 Gamul H1014 Meon H1010 Kiriathaim - Jeremiah 48:1; Genesis 14:5, Shaveh Kiriat
THE HUMBLING OF MOAB AND JUDGMENT ON HER CITIES (JEREMIAH 48:14). Jeremiah 48:14 “How do you say, ‘We are mighty men, And valiant men for the war?' Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into hi...
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...
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...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 48:21 All of Moab’s cities are lost in this JUDGMENT time. ⇐...
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...
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...
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...
Genesis 14:5; Jeremiah 48:1; Joshua 13:17; Joshua 13:19; Numbers 32:38