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Jeremiah 49:8

Jeremiah 49:8 Flee H5127 (H8798) back H6437 (H8717) dwell H3427 (H8800) depths H6009 (H8689) inhabitants H3427 (H8802) Dedan H1719 bring H935 (H8689) calamity H343 Esau H6215 time H6256 punish H6485 (H8804)

Flee - Jeremiah 49:30, Jeremiah 6:1, Jeremiah 48:6; Matthew 24:15-18; Revelation 6:15

turn back - or, they are turned back

dwell - Jeremiah 48:28; Judges 6:2; 1 Samuel 13:6; Isaiah 2:21; Amos 9:1-3; Obadiah 1:3-4

Dedan - Jeremiah 25:23; Isaiah 21:13

for - Jeremiah 49:32, Jeremiah 46:21, Jeremiah 48:44; Lamentations 4:21-22

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See also Jeremiah 49:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 49:8. _DWELL DEEP_] An allusion to the custom of the Arabs, who, when about to be attacked by a powerful foe, strike their tents, pack up their utensils, lade their camels, which they...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Edom stretched along the south of Judah from the border of Moab on the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean and the Arabian deserts, and held the same relation to Judah which Moab held toward the kingdom of...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EDOM. For the land, and the relations of this people to Israel, see on Obadiah, from Jeremiah 49:1 of which the present prophecy has taken verbally Jeremiah 49:9; Jeremiah 49:14. This does not, in its...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DWELL DEEP: i.e. in out of the way recesses. DEDAN. Not identified. He was. grandson of Abraham (Genesis 25:1). Compare Isaiah 21:13.Ezekiel 25:13. A tribe descended from Abraham by Keturah ...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan_ See on ch. Jeremiah 25:23. They are bidden to seek an inaccessible hiding-place....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    DWELL DEEP, O INHABITANTS OF DEDAN— See the note on Jeremiah 49:30. The Dedanites were descended from _Dedan,_ a grandson of Abraham, and settled in Arabia. Houbigant renders the last clause of this v...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    VI. AN ORACLE AGAINST EDOM Jeremiah 49:7-22 Beyond the brook Zered, the southern boundary of Moab, lay Edom. Edom was an exceedingly mountainous country rich in copper and iron ore. Because of its min...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him. FLEE YE, TURN BACK - namely, your backs in flight. DWELL DE...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    CONCERNING EDOM] The bitterness of the tone in which Edom is addressed in this prophecy is doubtless to be ascribed to the affinity between them and the Jews, which made the unnatural exultation of Ed...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DEDAN] a tribe descended from Abraham by his wife Keturah (Genesis 25:3), and dwelling SE. of Edom. They are bidden to keep well out of the way lest they should be involved in the overthrow of their n...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    O INHABITANTS OF DEDAN. — See Note on Jeremiah 25:23. In Ezekiel 25:13 Dedan appears, as here, in company with Edom and Teman. In Isaiah 21:13 the “travelling companies of Dedanim” appear as carrying...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    נֻ֤סוּ הָפְנוּ֙ הֶעְמִ֣יקוּ לָ שֶׁ֔בֶת יֹשְׁבֵ֖י...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Flee ye, (k) turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time [that] I will punish him. (k) The enemies that pretend to flee, will turn back and...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Hole. The territory of Edom, from Eleutheropolis to Elath, is full of such. (St. Jerome, in Abdias) --- Dedan lies south of the Dead Sea. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The Edomites, the descendants of Esau, are here brought to account. Long grudge, and an old hatred to Jacob and his seed, marked this race: and to this hour the enmity hath not ceased. Galatians 4:29....

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet shews here how great was the pride of that nation, and sets it as it were before their eyes. _Flee_, he says; the language is abrupt, yet the meaning is not ambiguous. The meaning is, that...

  • 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

    FLEE YE, TURN BACK, DWELL DEEP, O INHABITANTS OF DEDAN,.... Another city in Idumea; though some take it to be a country in Arabia, bordering on Edom, and subdued by the Edomites: the inhabitants of th...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time [that] I will visit him. Ver. 8. _Dwell deep._] Hide yourselves in holes of the earth,...

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

    _Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep_ “When the Arabs,” says Harmer, “have drawn upon themselves such a general resentment of the more fixed inhabitants of those countries that they think themselves unable...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AGAINST EDOM...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, hiding in caves and remote places, O INHABITANTS OF DEDAN, a nomad tribe tributary to Edom; FOR I WILL BRING THE CALAMITY OF ESAU UPON HIM, THE TIME THAT I WILL VISIT H...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    TURN BACK: Or, they are turned back...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-22 The Edomites were old enemies to the Israel of God. But their day is now at hand; it is foretold, not only to warn them, but for the sake of the Israel of God, whose afflictions were aggravated b...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Dedan was the son of Jokshan, 1 CHRONICLES 1:32, from which it is probable that the city DEDAN had its name; it is reckoned, JEREMIAH 25:23, with Tema and Buz, and is mentioned Ezekiel 27:15,20

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JUDGMENT AGAINST EDOM (JEREMIAH 49:7). Edom lay to the south east of Judah stretching from the borders of Judah down to the Gulf of Aqabah, a distance of 100 miles. Its importance generally lay in the...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan._ DWELL DEEP, O DEDAN We do not quite know who these inhabitants of Dedan were, but in all probability they were some Arabian tribe or tribes. The text intends one...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 49:8 DEDAN. A site southeast of Edom. ⇐ ⇔...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 13:6; Amos 9:1; Isaiah 2:21; Isaiah 21:13; Jeremiah 25:23;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Dedan — Was a city of Arabia joining to Idumea, Isaiah 21:13, they being neighbours to the Edomites are called to flee, and to get into caves, where they might dwell deep in the earth and be in some s...

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