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Verse Jeremiah 48:37. _FOR EVERY HEAD_ SHALL BE _BALD_] These, as we
have seen before, were signs of the deepest distress and desolation....
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CUTTINGS - Compare Jeremiah 16:6, and marginal references....
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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
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Moab's pride is without foundation, doomed to a fall which the prophet
laments; comparing the past glory with the far-reaching tendrils of a
choice vine (Jeremiah 48:32). There is no longer the joy of...
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EVERY HEAD. Some codices, with four early printed editions (one
margin), read "For upon every head".
BALD. baldness. The symbol of mourning. Compare Jeremiah 47:5.
UPON THE LOINS. Some codices, with...
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See introd. summary to the ch. The passage may contain some Jeremianic
matter, but on the whole is late (see also on Jeremiah 48:37) and
borrowed to a large extent from Is. 15., 16. (chs. which are pe...
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All shall have the usual indications of mourning. See on ch. Jeremiah
16:6....
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Cp. Isaiah 15:2 f. From "for I have broken" (Jeremiah 48:38) to "upon
Moab" (Jeremiah 48:44) is either wholly or in a large part the work of
a supplementer....
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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...
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F. Bitter Lamentation Jeremiah 48:31-38
TRANSLATION
(31) Therefore, I will wail over Moab, and I will cry out for all of
Moab, and I will moan for the men of Kir-heres. (32) With more than
the weepin...
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For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the
hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
EVERY HEAD SHALL BE BALD - (note, , "Baldness is come upon Gaza;"
Isaiah...
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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...
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All shall have the usual emblems of mourning: cp. Jeremiah 47:5....
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כִּ֤י כָל ־רֹאשׁ֙ קָרְחָ֔ה וְ כָל
־זָקָ֖ן
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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...
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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...
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_Shaven, or "clipt," (Protestants; Haydock) as in mourning. --- Tied.
Hebrew, "cut," chap. xvi. 6. (Calmet) --- Such signs of mourning were
usual in those countries. The Romans let their hair grow. (C...
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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...
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The Prophet describes at large a very great mourning. They were wont
in great sorrow to pull off their hair, to shave their beard, and to
put on sackcloth, or to gird it round their loins, and also to...
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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...
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FOR EVERY HEAD [SHALL BE] BALD, AND EVERY BEARD CLIPPED,.... Men, in
times of mourning, used to pluck off the hairs of their head till they
made them bald, and shaved their beards; which, as Kimchi sa...
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Jeremiah 48:29 ; JEREMIAH 48:39. _We have heard the pride of Moab_ The
several synonymous terms made use of in this verse are meant to
express the great pride and insolence of Moab. Though some of the...
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_From the cry of Heshbon_ When Heshbon was taken by the enemy, the cry
of the inhabitants reached as far as Elealeh and Jahaz: the same was
likewise heard from Zoar to Horonaim. _As a heifer of three...
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For every head shall be bald, shaved as a sign of deep grief, AND
EVERY BEARD CLIPPED, another evidence of mourning; UPON ALL THE HANDS
SHALL BE CUTTINGS, incisions such as the heathen made in deep so...
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LAMENTATION OVER MOAB...
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CLIPPED:
_ Heb._ diminished...
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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...
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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 the...
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Jeremiah 48:37 head H7218 bald H7144 beard H2206 clipped H1639 (H8803)
hands H3027 cuts H1417 loins H4975 sackc
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A LAMENT OVER MOAB (JEREMIAH 48:29).
The fate of Moab is very much linked with its overweening pride. It
tended to be out of the way of invaders from the north who would use
the coastal route, and aft...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Kings 18:28; 1 Kings 21:27; 2 Kings 6:30; Amos 8:10; Ezekiel 27:31;