JEREMIAH CHAPTER 48 The judgment of Moab, JEREMIAH 48:1, for their pride, JEREMIAH 48:7; for their security and human confidence, JEREMIAH 48:11; especially for their contempt of God, and insolence towards his people, JEREMIAH 48:26. Their restoration, JEREMIAH 48:47. The prophet having, JER 46; den... [ Continue Reading ]
HESHBON was formerly the city of Sihon, NUMBERS 21:26; it became afterward one of the principal cities of the Moabites, as appeareth from ISAIAH 15:4; which maketh the learned author of our English Annotations think our translation not so good; for why should they devise evil in Heshbon against Moab... [ Continue Reading ]
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 destruction to this city.... [ Continue Reading ]
Moab was both the name of the whole country, and of a principal city in it. Some by it here understand the city; by her LITTLE ONES some understand little children; others, inferior magistrates, or the common people.... [ Continue Reading ]
Of LUHITH we read only in this place, and ISAIAH 15:5; it was a city of Moab, and situated upon a hill, as appears both here and where it is mentioned in Isaiah. Some think that to this city the Moabites fled for sanctuary from the Chaldeans, and fleeing made so great an outcry that their enemies wh... [ Continue Reading ]
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 naked tree; or as the words of the prophets speaking to the Moabites to the same sense.... [ Continue Reading ]
Whether by WORKS in this place he meant their riches, got by the labour of their hands, or _their idols_, which often are called, by way of defamation, the works of their own hands, or their fortifications, is not much considerable; a confidence in creatures, opposed to a confidence in God, is doubt... [ Continue Reading ]
That is, all the parts of the country of Moab, and all the cities, as well those that stood upon hills and mountainous places, as those that stood in valleys; _because_ or _for_ the Lord had said it (for so the particle we translate as is bettea translated).... [ Continue Reading ]
That is, the Moabites had need of wings like a bird to escape that ruin which is coming upon them. Yea, if they had wings, they should not escape, for the Lord is resolved that the cities of Moab shall be all brought to desolation, so as no inhabitants shall be left in them.... [ Continue Reading ]
These words seem like the words of the prophet to the Chaldeans, inciting them to go on valiantly against the Moabites, calling it THE WORK OF THE LORD, which he would have done, and to which he had called them. There is a time to withhold our hands from shedding blood, and that is always when we ha... [ Continue Reading ]
MOAB HATH BEEN AT EASE FROM HIS YOUTH; the Moabites ever since they began to be a people have been a quiet people, not exercised with wars, and enemies making inroads upon them. HE HATH SETTLED ON HIS LEES; like to a cask of wine, that hath not been racked, but hath continued in the same state. AND... [ Continue Reading ]
By the WANDERERS here mentioned the Chaldeans are most certainly understood, who wandered from their own country to conquer other people; the word is variously translated, _vagrants, travellers, removers_, &c., who shall conquer the Moabites, and carry them into captivity. AND SHALL EMPTY HIS VESSEL... [ Continue Reading ]
It is a natural and a penal shame which is here spoken of; we are naturally ashamed when we have reposed a great confidence in, and made great boasts of, a thing which, when it comes to be tried, proveth of no use, but mischievous to us. CHEMOSH was their great idol, in which the Moabites had great... [ Continue Reading ]
How can ye justify what you say, or why say you so, or to what purpose do you brag of your valour?... [ Continue Reading ]
MOAB IS SPOILED; your country will be wasted and spoiled. AND GONE UP OUT OF HER CITIES; the inhabitants of it shall be all driven out of their cities. The Hebrew is, _and her cities_, it, or _he, is gone up_. So the sense may be, Moab and her cities are all spoiled, and he, that is, the enemy, is g... [ Continue Reading ]
Josephus tells us this destruction came upon the Moabites five years after the siege of Jerusalem; but if it were longer, we must consider that he who speaketh is that God to whom a thousand years is but as one day.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL YE THAT ARE ABOUT HIM, BEMOAN HIM: the prophet having spoken of Moab's calamity as already come upon him, or at least very near, calls to his friends to come and condole with him, as is usually done in case of some calamity befallen to a friend. ALL YE THAT KNOW HIS NAME, SAY, HOW IS THE STRONG... [ Continue Reading ]
Of this DIBON we read NUMBERS 21:30. It was a land for cattle, NUMBERS 32:3. Both Dibon, and Aroer, and Ataroth were built by-the children of Gad, to whose lot it fell, NUMBERS 32:34, as also to the Reubenites in part, JOS 13 17. It should seem that the Moabites were now come into the possession of... [ Continue Reading ]
AROER was a city in the lot of Gad and Reuben, NUMBERS 32:34. In David's time it was in the hand of the Jews, 1 SAMUEL 30:28, but in Isaiah's time it belonged to Syria, ISAIAH 17:2, and here it is reckoned to the Moabites. The inhabitants of it are called to STAND BY THE WAY, and seeing the Moabites... [ Continue Reading ]
ARNON was the name of a river, NUMBERS 21:14 DEUTERONOMY 2:36 JOSHUA 12:1. It was the border of Moab, whither Balak went to meet Balaam, NUMBERS 22:36; probably the adjacent country or city might take its name from the river.... [ Continue Reading ]
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God threateneth vengeance to come upon all Moab, which had great _plains_, NUMBERS 31:12, NUMBERS 33:48. For the names of these cities, and those mentioned JEREMIAH 48:22, some of them we read of in other places of holy writ; others we read not of, neither is it material for us to know their situati... [ Continue Reading ]
That is, the beauty and the _strength of Moab_. So these two terms often signify in holy writ, the horn being much the beauty of some beasts, and that part of their bodies by which they both do injury to others, and defend themselves from the assaults of others. God here declares that Moab should bo... [ Continue Reading ]
MAKE YE HIM DRUNKEN; either make ye him to stagger like a drunken man, (the cause being put for the effect,) or fill him with the intoxicating wine cup of God's vengeance, with the effects of God's wrath. FOR HE MAGNIFIED HIMSELF AGAINST THE LORD; because of his pride, and exalting himself against t... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WAS NOT ISRAEL A DERISION UNTO THEE? it is an ill thing to mock at the miseries of others, especially such as we have some relation to; the Moabites were descended from Lot, who was nearly related to Abraham the father of the Jews, and ought not to have mocked at them, but to have pitied their n... [ Continue Reading ]
Still the prophet speaks of the Moabites as a people whose armies were routed, and calls to them to leave their houses in cities, not promising themselves any security, either to or from their houses, or from the walls of their cities, but to get them to rocks, which are naturally fortified, and fro... [ Continue Reading ]
There is a passage, ISAIAH 16:6, &c., concerning Moab, very little differing from this: Isaiah lived some years before this prophet, who yet complaineth of them for the same sins, so as they were not at all reformed. God saith he had heard of their pride and arrogancy; a vice which commonly attendet... [ Continue Reading ]
I know his rage, either against Israel, or other people; but he shall never execute it, or bring to pass what he thinks to do. There is no trusting to what he saith, his boastings and his confidence are but lies, and shall never effect his designs.... [ Continue Reading ]
Though wicked men rejoice and triumph in the ruin of good men, yet their charity suffereth them not to do the like, but engageth them to mourn for them in the day of their affliction. Jeremiah declareth his compassion toward these Moabites, though they derided the Jews when they were carried into ca... [ Continue Reading ]
We read of this VINE OF SIBMAH also ISAIAH 16:8,9. Both Sibmah and Jahaza were places in the portion of Reuben, JOSHUA 13:18,19. Sibmah was doubtless a place famous in those days for vines and vineyards. This Jahaza or JAZER was, as it should seem, first taken and carried into captivity, which cause... [ Continue Reading ]
The time of harvest and vintage being times when the husbandmen were wont to reap the fruit of all their labours the preceding year, were times of great joy ordinarily; but the prophet foretells them of a year when there should be no such rejoicing, for they should have no wine from the winepresses,... [ Continue Reading ]
AN HEIFER OF THREE YEARS OLD. See ISAIAH 15:5. HESHBON, and ELEALEH, and JAHAZ, and ZOAR, and HORONAIM, were all cities of Moab, who are here all threatened with ruin; with the country about _Nimrim_; which Nimrim is mentioned no where in Scripture but here, and in ISAIAH 15:6; nor are interpreters... [ Continue Reading ]
That is, every one, or some of all orders, for the Moabites generally were idolaters; though the expressing it under this notion may hint to us also one great cause of this judgment coming upon them, viz. their idolatry.... [ Continue Reading ]
The prophet means such pipes as they were wont to use at funerals, and other sad occasions, to play doleful lessons upon; see ISAIAH 15:5; because of the great change in the state of this poor people, which had got together a great deal of wealth, which is all perished.... [ Continue Reading ]
These phrases are expounded in the beginning of the following verse, There shall be lamentation generally upon all the house-tops of Moab. Shaving of the hair, and clipping the beards, and cutting themselves, were rites and ceremonies of mourning used by these heathens.... [ Continue Reading ]
We met with the same phrase applied to Coniah, JEREMIAH 22:28. The meaning is, I have broken Moab all to pieces, as people use to do vessels they care not for; they never go about to mend such a vessel, but dash it in pieces against some stones or walls.... [ Continue Reading ]
Those that formerly lived in Moab, when it was in its glory, shall lament to see how the case is altered with it, that all its glory is broken down, and they that were wont to conquer their enemies turn their backs with shame upon their enemies. And Moab, that was wont to be the praise and admiratio... [ Continue Reading ]
Nebuchadnezzar shall come upon Moab swiftly; and as an eagle covereth the prey which he hath taken with his wings, so Nebuchadnezzar shall spread himself over Moab.... [ Continue Reading ]
Whether KERIOTH here be the proper name of a city, as it is JEREMIAH 48:24, or an appellative noun signifying cities, is doubtful. The latter seems best to agree to this place: _The cities and the strong holds are all taken_; and though Moab hath in it many mighty and valiant men, yet their hearts w... [ Continue Reading ]
That is, for a time; see JEREMIAH 48:47; or being such a people as it hath been, so full of splendour and glory. The reason given is the same with that JEREMIAH 48:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
These three words, FEAR, PIT, SNARE, signify no more than a variety of dangers that should be on all sides of them, so as if any escaped one danger, he should presently meet with another, for this was the time when the Lord was resolved to punish all the inhabitants of the land of Moab.... [ Continue Reading ]
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HESHBON was a great city, and, as it should seem, a place of some force; the war being in the country, they made Heshbon the place of their sanctuary. But the prophet, applying to the Chaldeans what was said in Moses's time, NUMBERS 21:28, prophesieth that Heshbon also should be destroyed, and the f... [ Continue Reading ]
The prophet, closing the threatening part of his prophecy against Moab, repeateth the same thing which he had often said, that the Moabites should be carried into captivity by the king of Babylon, and denounceth a woe unto them upon that account.... [ Continue Reading ]
Some think this prophecy was fulfilled upon the return of the Jews out of Babylon, when the Jews inhabited the land of Moab, ZEPHANIAH 2:9; but this doth not seem to be the bringing again the captivity of Moab, but of Judah; besides, in that place it is said that _Moab should be as Sodom, and the ch... [ Continue Reading ]