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Verse Jeremiah 49:3. _RUN TO AND FRO BY THE HEDGES_] It is supposed
that this may refer to the women making lamentations for the dead,
that were in general buried by the walls of their _gardens_; but...
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AI - Not the town on the west of the Jordan Joshua 7:2; a place not
mentioned elsewhere. For Ai some read Ar.
HEDGES - Fields were not divided by hedges until recent times; the
term probably means the...
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CHAPTER 49
Concerning Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar, and Elam
_ 1. Concerning the Ammonites (Jeremiah 49:1) _
2. Concerning Edom (Jeremiah 49:7)
3. Concerning Damascus (Jeremiah 49:23)...
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AMMON. The Ammonite territory lay eastward of part of that assigned to
Gad, between Heshbon and the river Jabbok; the Ammonites appear to
have occupied the territory of Gad after the deportation of it...
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HESHBON. Compare Jeremiah 48:2.
AI. An Ammonite town, not yet identified.
CRY. cry sadly.
HEDGES. fences....
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_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 "H...
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HOWL, O HESHBON— That is, "When Ai, a city of Ammon, is destroyed,
it is time for Heshbon, the chief city of Moab, to lament her danger."
The author of the _Observations_ remarks, that the phrase, _Ru...
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V. AN ORACLE AGAINST AMMON Jeremiah 49:1-6
TRANSLATION
(1) Against the children of Ammon. Thus says the LORD: Has Israel no
sons; has he no heir? why does their king possess Gad, and his people
dwell...
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Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird
you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for
their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his pri...
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49:3 Malcam (b-26) See Note g, ver. 1....
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AGAINST AMMON, EDOM, AND OTHER NATIONS
1-6. The territory of Ammon was N. of Moab, and the two peoples were
connected by descent. The carrying away of the tribes on the E. of
Jordan by Tiglath-pileser...
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HOWL, O HESHBON, FOR AI IS SPOILED. — Heshbon has appeared in
Jeremiah 48:2; Jeremiah 48:45, as connected with the fortunes of Moab,
but it was strictly an Ammonite city. The “Ai” here is obviously
no...
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CHAPTER XX
AMMON
Jeremiah 49:1
"Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth Moloch possess
Gad, and his people dwell in the cities thereof?"- Jeremiah 49:1
THE relations of Israel with Ammo...
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Against the children of Ammon Jeremiah raised a protest because their
king was in possession of Gad. He declared that by the fierce judgment
of war, they were to be dispossessed and driven forth. The...
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_Hai, or Je-abarim. Both these cities pertained also to Moab. ---
Hedges. Hebrew Gederoth, may be the city Gadara. --- Melchom, or
Moloc, who claimed dominion over this people. If they had used their...
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The Chapter opens in a beautiful and striking manner, for the Lord
himself, Israel's lawful Sovereign, demands, as in a court of justice,
how, or wherefore it is, that the land he gave, (and as Lord a...
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The Prophet now triumphs, as it were, over the land of Ammon, and,
according to his accustomed manner, as we have before seen; for had
the prophets spoken without metaphors, and simply narrated the th...
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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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HOWL, O HESHBON,.... Which was a city of Moab, though it formerly
belonged to the Amorites; see Jeremiah 48:2; it was upon the border of
Ammon, and near to Ai, now destroyed; and therefore is called u...
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Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird
you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for
their king shall go into captivity, [and] his priests and his pr...
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_Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled_ This _“Ai_ must be a different
city from that taken by Joshua, chap. 8., which lay on the west side
of Jordan. Grotius mentions another city, called _Gaia_ by Ptol...
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Howl, O Heshbon, at that time occupied by the Ammonites, FOR AI IS
SPOILED, had already been subdued by the invaders; CRY, YE DAUGHTERS
OF RABBAH, the towns and villages near the capital, GIRD YOU WIT...
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AGAINST AMMON...
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THEIR KING:
Or, Melcom...
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HESHBON was formerly a city of the Amorites, of whom Sihon was king,
who resided here (but it appears by JEREMIAH 49:26 that it was taken
from Moab); it is probable that it was at this time a city of...
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Jeremiah 49:3 Wail H3213 (H8685) Heshbon H2809 Ai H5857 plundered
H7703 (H8795) Cry H6817 (H8798) daughters...
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JUDGMENT AGAINST AMMON (JEREMIAH 49:1).
Ammon were a fierce, half-civilised nation beyond the eastern borders
of Israel and Moab, with their further borders connecting with the
deserts of Arabia with...
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PROPHECY OF JUDGMENT ON THE NATIONS CONTINUED (JEREMIAH 49:1 TO
JEREMIAH 51:64).
Having learned that judgment was coming on Egypt, Philistia and Moab,
we now go on to learn that it will also visit Am...
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CONTENTS: Prophecies against the Ammonites, Edom, Damascus, Kedar,
kingdoms of Hazor, Elam.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Nebuchadrezzar, Zedekiah.
CONCLUSION: Nations that despise and persecute God's...
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Jeremiah 49:1. _Hath Israel no sons; hath he no heir?_ In this bold
and striking manner the prophet commences his elegy on Ammon. The king
of Ammon had in times of war, seized the cities of Gad. By ev...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 49:3 HESHBON. See Jeremiah 48:2. AI.
Location unknown; not the Ai of...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—The
prophecies against _Ammon, Edom, Damascus,_ and _Kedar._ Jeremiah 49:1
are synchronous with the previous chapter, but the section (Jere...
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EXPOSITION
On Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar and Hazer, and Elam.
JEREMIAH 49:1
The violence of the Ammonites shall be severely punished.
JEREMIAH 49:1
HATH ISRAEL NO SONS! The violent seizure, perp...
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Now in chapter 49, he speaks first of the Ammonites. Now, the
Ammonites were those people who were north of Moab and east of the
Jordan in the upper Jordan area, east of the Sea of Galilee and the
Gol...
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1 Kings 11:33; 1 Kings 11:5; 2 Kings 23:13; Amos 1:15; Isaiah 13:6;...
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Ai — A city of the Ammonites, not the same mentioned, Joshua 7:2,
for that was on the other side Jordan. By the hedges — Where they
might be hidden, and not so easily seen....