Jeremiah 49:1-6 (LXX. Ch. Jeremiah 30:1-5). Prophecy against Ammon Objections have been urged by Gi. to recognising this prophecy as Jeremianic, while it is of course rejected by many others together with the rest of the prophecies against foreign nations (see introd. note on chs. 46 51). Gi."s obj... [ Continue Reading ]
_Hath Israel no sons_?] The style is quite that of Jeremiah (e.g. Jeremiah 2:14). _Malcam_ mg. (less well), _their king_; and so in Jeremiah 49:3. He was the god of Ammon. See 1 Kings 11:5. The word should be written as LXX, Syr., Vulg. _Milcom_(and so in Jeremiah 49:3). _possess_ better, as mg. _... [ Continue Reading ]
_Rabbah_ now _-Ammân_, their capital city, on the river Jabbok, fourteen miles N.E. of Heshbon. _a desolate heap_ See on Jeremiah 30:18. _her daughters_ the minor cities depending on her; so Jeremiah 49:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Howl, O Heshbon_ Heshbon was a Moabite city (Jeremiah 48:2; Jeremiah 48:34; Jeremiah 48:45), and an Ammonite Ai is otherwise unknown. Hence conjectural emendations are (_a_) to read (with Co.) for "Heshbon" _Ammon_(i.e. its inhabitants), and for "Ai" _the city_, or (_b_) emending "Ai" as in (_a_),... [ Continue Reading ]
_Wherefore … flowing valley_ mg. (scarcely possible), _Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys? thy valley floweth away_. Rabbah was on a broad tableland about 2700 feet above the sea, but it was surrounded by hills, so that it could be described as in a vale. "Thy flowing valley" is, however, a stra... [ Continue Reading ]
_But afterward_ Cp. Jeremiah 48:47.... [ Continue Reading ]
If Obadiah 1:8 is a later insertion there (so Wellhausen), it may have been introduced from this passage. Eliphaz the Temanite (Job 2:11, etc.) has been thought to illustrate a reputation for wisdom on the part of Teman. _Is wisdom no more in Teman_?] This and the succeeding questions are a pointed... [ Continue Reading ]
(LXX. Ch. Jeremiah 29:8-23). Prophecy against Edom The fact that there is a great similarity with Obadiah (Jeremiah 49:7_; Jeremiah 49:9a_, and 14 16 corresponding respectively with Obadiah 1:8; Obadiah 1:5 f., Obadiah 1:1) raises a difficult question as to the origin of the passages common to the... [ Continue Reading ]
_dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan_ See on ch. Jeremiah 25:23. They are bidden to seek an inaccessible hiding-place.... [ Continue Reading ]
_would they not leave some gleaning grapes_?] The _v_. is based on Obadiah 1:5, but while the general sense is the same, Obadiah contrasts the extremities to which the foe proceeds with the comparative moderation shewn by grape-gatherers or thieves. Here, on the contrary, the enemy's conduct is dire... [ Continue Reading ]
Parallel with Obadiah 1:6, which (as 8; see on Jeremiah 49:7 above) is probably an insertion from this passage, where it fits the context much better; especially if, with mg. we introduce, as we should, the _v_. by _For_. _his secret places_ the retreats and fastnesses of Edom. _his seed … he is n... [ Continue Reading ]
A remarkable _v_. and decidedly Jeremianic in character, as compared with the attitude which later days would have assumed towards an enemy so bitterly hated. On the other hand, it is extremely abrupt in the midst of denunciation. We may take it as meaning, Fathers and husbands are dead, but Jehovah... [ Continue Reading ]
_they to whom it pertained not_ for the metaphor See on Jeremiah 13:12; Jeremiah 25:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Bozrah_ perhaps _Busaireh_, twenty miles S.E. of the Dead Sea. See on ch. Jeremiah 48:20-24.... [ Continue Reading ]
These _vv_. are parallel to Obadiah 1:1-4, whence they are borrowed; see introd. note.... [ Continue Reading ]
_As for thy terribleness_ The text is probably corrupt, but no certain emendation has been suggested. If it stands, we must take the sense to be _O thy trembling_, i.e. either (_a_) how wilt thou tremble at the greatness of thy fall! or (_b_) how will the lookers on tremble at the horror of this sig... [ Continue Reading ]
Cp. Jeremiah 19:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Sodom and Gomorrah_ The comparison appears to be taken from Deuteronomy 29:23, where the neighbour cities are mentioned by name (_Admah_and _Zeboiim_). See Genesis 10:19; Genesis 14:2; Genesis 14:8; Deuteronomy 29:23. The _v_. recurs in Jeremiah 50:40.... [ Continue Reading ]
_he shall come up_ viz. the enemy who is to prevail over Edom. _like a lion_ Cp. Jeremiah 4:7. _pride_ better than mg. _swelling_. See on ch. Jeremiah 12:5. _against the strong habitation_ mg. _unto the permanent pastures_. See on Jeremiah 23:3. We may either explain here, _homestead_whose surrou... [ Continue Reading ]
These _vv_. recur with variations in Jeremiah 50:44-46.... [ Continue Reading ]
_they shall drag … of the flock_ mg. is scarcely intelligible. The figure is that of dogs or other fierce beasts seizing the most helpless of the sheep. Cp. Jeremiah 15:3. But Du. followed by Co. understands the meaning to be that shepherd lads (instead of "little ones of the flock") shall be dragge... [ Continue Reading ]
Cp. Jeremiah 48:40.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Damascus_ Damascus was for a long time held by a powerful dynasty of kings, who reduced the other cities under their own sway. _Hamath Hama_, on the Orontes, 110 miles N. of Damascus. _Arpad Tell-Erfad_, 95 miles N. of Hamath, and often mentioned (e.g. 2Ki 18:34; 2 Kings 19:13; Isaiah 10:9) along... [ Continue Reading ]
(LXX. Ch. Jeremiah 30:12-16). Prophecy against Damascus This section is rejected even by some commentators (e.g. Co.) who admit portions of chs. 46 51 as genuine. The main objection adduced is the emphasis laid on Hamath and Arpad (Jeremiah 49:23), combined with the absence of these two cities from... [ Continue Reading ]
_not forsaken_ The negative quite reverses the sense we should expect. Accordingly Du. and Co., emending the MT., render respectively, "Woe to her!" and "Woe to me!" continuing, "For the city of praise is forsaken." _the city of my joy_ We should probably, with several Versions, omit the pronoun, a... [ Continue Reading ]
See introd. note. "Therefore" (Jeremiah 49:26) is quite unsuitable here, while fitting the connexion in Jeremiah 50:30.... [ Continue Reading ]
_I will kindle a fire_ Cp. Numbers 21:28; Deuteronomy 32:22. Benhadad (son of Hadad) was the name of several kings of Syria. _palaces_ See on Jeremiah 6:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Kedar_ See on ch. Jeremiah 2:10. _kingdoms of Hazor_ Hazor elsewhere is the name of towns in Palestine, but here "is probably a collective term, derived from _ḥâẓêr_, a -village," denoting Arab tribes living in fixed settlements or -villages," " Dr., as opposed to nomadic life alluded to in Jeremi... [ Continue Reading ]
(LXX. Ch. Jeremiah 30:6-11). Prophecy against Kedar and Hazor 28 33. This utterance, like the last, is rejected by Gi. and Co., though accepted, at any rate as containing a genuine element, by Kuenen, Erbt, and others. As elsewhere in these oracles, there have doubtless been later additions (see on... [ Continue Reading ]
_curtains_ i.e. tent-hangings. See on ch. Jeremiah 4:20. _Terror on every side_ See on ch. Jeremiah 6:25.... [ Continue Reading ]
_dwell deep_ See on Jeremiah 49:8, whence the expression may be borrowed. It is less suitable to the wandering tribes of Bedawin here addressed.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Arise_ addressed to the enemies of these tribes. Three grounds of encouragement are given to the invading army, (_a_) the people have felt hitherto secure against attack, (_b_) they have no walled towns, (_c_) they have no powerful neighbours, from whom to seek aid. _which dwell alone_ considerin... [ Continue Reading ]
These _vv_. are in all probability a later addition, influenced by Ezekiel 38:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
_that have the corners_of their hair _polled_ See on ch. Jeremiah 9:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
_jackals_ See on ch. Jeremiah 9:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Elam_ now (approximately) _Chuzistan_, a country E. of the southern portion of Babylonia.... [ Continue Reading ]
(LXX. Chs. Jeremiah 25:14 to Jeremiah 26:1.). Prophecy against Elam Here, as elsewhere in the group, the genuineness of this section is largely questioned. Even Rothstein, who is a decidedly conservative critic on the whole, rejects it. Co. on the other hand maintains that there is in it a Jeremian... [ Continue Reading ]
_the bow of Elam_ For Elam's prowess with the bow cp. Isaiah 22:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
Co. with considerable probability holds this _v_. to be the work of a supplementer, as being an interruption to the order of thought (when compared with the succeeding _v_.) and as suggested by Ezekiel 5:10; Ezekiel 5:12; Ezekiel 12:14, and also by Ezekiel 37:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
_set my throne in_ sit in judgement upon. Cp. Jeremiah 1:15; Jeremiah 43:10.... [ Continue Reading ]