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Jeremiah 48:12

pour off rather as mg. tilt(a vessel). The figure of earthenware jars of wine is continued. They are emptied by being tilted on one side, an operation which was performed slowly and carefully, that the jars might be safe and the wine run off clear while the sediment was left. This work, however, in the case of Moab shall be done roughly.

bottles rather as mg. jars.

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See also Jeremiah 48:12 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 48:12. _I WILL SEND UNTO HIM WANDERERS THAT SHALL CAUSE HIM TO_ _WANDER_] Dr. _Blayney_ renders צעים _tsaim, tilters_; those who elevate one end of the wine cask when nearly run out tha...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I WILL SEND - tilters “unto him and they shall” tilt “him, and they shall empty his vessels, and break their” pitchers “in pieces.” “Pitchers” originally meant “skins,” but the word came to signify sm...

  • 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

    Moab, hitherto undisturbed, is compared with wine left standing on its sediment (Isaiah 25:6), and retaining its flavour and scent (_i.e._ being self-centred and undisciplined; _cf._ the pride of Jere...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ SAITH THE LORD. [is] Jehovah's oracle. WANDERERS, THAT SHALL CAUSE HIM TO WANDER. tilters that shall tilt him. Keeping up the symbol of. wine-jar (Jeremiah 48:...

  • 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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. Prophetic Explanation Jeremiah 48:11-17 TRANSLATION (11) From his youth Moab has been at ease, and settled on his lees; he was not emptied from vessel to vessel, nor had he gone into captivity; th...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles. I WILL SEND UNTO HIM WAN...

  • 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    WANDERERS, THAT SHALL CAUSE HIM TO WANDER] RV 'them that pour off, and they shall pour him off.'The figure of jars of wine is continued. They are emptied by being tilted on one side, an operation that...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לָכֵ֞ן הִנֵּ֖ה ־יָמִ֤ים בָּאִים֙ נְאֻם ־יְהוָ֔ה...

  • 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

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet said in the last lecture that the Moabites, as long as they lived prosperously, were very hardened, as impunity becomes an incentive to sin; for the ungodly, while God spares them, think t...

  • 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

    THEREFORE, BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD,.... This being their case, they should not continue in it; a change would be made, and that in a very short time, as there was; for, according to Jose...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles. Ver. 12. _That I will send...

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

    _Moab hath been at ease_ Or, _hath been opulent_, as the Chaldee renders שׁאנן, _from his youth_ Moab was an ancient kingdom, and had enjoyed great tranquillity, though a small country and surrounded...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will send unto him wanderers, literally, "pourers-out," the Hebrew word being used of men who handled wine-kegs and skins, especially in transf...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE COMING DEVASTATION OF MOAB DESCRIBED...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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, remov...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 48:12 days H3117 coming H935 (H8802) says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 send H7971 (H8765) wine-workers...

  • 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 Biblical Illustrator

    _Moab hath been at ease from him youth, and he hath settled on his lees._ THE SHRILL TRUMPET OF ADMONITION For a considerable season the country of Moab had been free from the inroads of war and the...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 48:12 POUR HIM... BREAK HIS JARS. Babylon will empty Moab like one pours wine from a jar. It will smash Moab like one smashes and disposes of old jars ...

  • 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

    Ezekiel 25:10; Ezekiel 25:9; Isaiah 16:2; Isaiah 30:14; Jeremiah 14:3

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Wanderers — The Chaldeans, who wandered from their own country to conquer other people. Break his bottles — He had before compared the Moabites, to wine settled upon the lees, here he saith, that God...

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