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Jeremiah 48:6
Flee! so the cry goes forth to them, save your lives and be like the heath in the wilderness, like forsaken ones, like those stripped of everything out in the desert, that being Moab's eventual lot.
Flee! so the cry goes forth to them, save your lives and be like the heath in the wilderness, like forsaken ones, like those stripped of everything out in the desert, that being Moab's eventual lot.
Verse Jeremiah 48:6. _FLEE, SAVE YOUR LIVES_] The enemy is in full pursuit of you. _BE LIKE THE HEATH_] כערוער _caaroer_, "like Aroer;" which some take for a _city_, others for a _blasted_ or _withe...
LIKE THE HEATH - Or, Like a destitute man. See the marginal reference note....
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
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...
LIVES. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. THE HEATH. naked trees. Compare Jeremiah 17:6....
_the heath_ See on Jeremiah 17:6. The LXX read somewhat differently from MT., rendering _wild ass_(as shy and difficult to capture). This is probably right. Cp. Job 39:5....
HEATH— _Withered tree,_ Hiller, p. 86....
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;...
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...
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness. FLEE, SAVE YOUR LIVES. They exhort one another to flee. BE LIKE THE HEATH - or the juniper (see note, ). Maurer translates, 'be lik...
48:6 shrub (k-9) Or 'a denuded person,' as ch. 17.6....
THE HEATH] see on Jeremiah 17:6....
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...
BE LIKE THE HEATH IN THE WILDERNESS. — Here, as in Jeremiah 17:6, the stunted solitary shrub in the desert is taken as the type of desolation. The LXX., which adopts the meaning in Jeremiah 17:6, here...
נֻ֖סוּ מַלְּט֣וּ נַפְשְׁכֶ֑ם וְ תִֽהְיֶ֕ינָה כַּ...
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...
Flee, save your lives, and be like the (e) bush in the wilderness. (e) Hide yourselves in barren places, where the enemy will not pursue after you, (Jeremiah 17:6)....
CHAPTER XLVIII. _ Heath, or tamarick, chap. xvii. 6. Hebrew Haroher._...
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...
Then he adds, _Flee, save_: this is the crying of distress; for miserable men, as the case is in extreme evils, mutually exhort one another, _Flee, save your lives _He then compares them to a tamarisk...
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...
FLEE, SAVE YOUR LIVES,.... These are either the words of the Moabites, their cry of destruction mentioned in the latter part of Jeremiah 48:5; who, seeing nothing but ruin before their eyes, advise o...
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness. Ver. 6. _Flee, save your lives._] Whatever else ye lose. _ And be like the heath in the wilderness._] Which is little worth. See Jerem...
_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...
HEATH: Or, a naked tree...
It is of no great moment whether we understand these as the words of the Moabites, calling one to another to flee, and save their lives, though they lost all they had, and left themselves as bare as a...
Jeremiah 48:6 Flee H5127 (H8798) save H4422 (H8761) lives H5315 be H1961 (H8799) juniper H6176 wilderness...
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...
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...
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...
_Flee, save your lives._ THE CHRISTIAN’S FLIGHT Such was the warning addressed to Moab by the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel. The Chaldeans were about to lay waste the land of the Moabites--a punis...
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 19:17; Hebrews 6:18; Jeremiah 17:6; Jeremiah 51:6; Job 30:3;...
And be — Save your lives, though all ye have be lost....