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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 49:7

Concerning Edom— This prophesy respecting Edom refers to the same time with those preceding. See Obad. Jeremiah 49:8, &c. Teman was a city in Edom, the inhabitants whereof were famous for their wisdom. See Job 2:11.

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See also Jeremiah 49:7 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 49:7. _CONCERNING EDOM_] This is a new and separate discourse. _TEMAN_] A part of Idumea, put here for the whole country....

  • 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

    THE FORTY-SIXTH PROPHECY OF JEREMIAH (see book comments for Jeremiah). Edom. From Esau. Judgment for his unbrotherly conduct to Israel. Compare Psalms 137:7; Isaiah 63:1.Ezekiel 25:12. and Obadiah. t...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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 o...

  • 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

    Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished? CONCERNING EDOM. A distinct prophecy; copied in part from...

  • 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

    _Is_ WISDOM NO MORE IN TEMAN?] Wisdom seems to have been a special characteristic of Edom: see Jeremiah 49:20; Obadiah 1:8, and cp. (apocryphal) book of Bar 3:22....

  • 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    CONCERNING EDOM. — A short survey of the past history is necessary that we may enter into the force of the prophet’s words. On the journey of the Israelites to Canaan the Edomites were left unmolested...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לֶ אֱדֹ֗ום כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָאֹ֔ות הַ

  • 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

    Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; [Is] wisdom no more in (i) Teman? hath counsel perished from the prudent? hath their wisdom vanished? (i) Which was a city of Edom, called by the name o...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Edom. This nation was involved in the common ruin, for its barbarity towards God's people, Abdias x., Psalm cxxxvi. 7., and Ezechiel xxv. 12. --- Theman, renowned formerly for wisdom, Job ii. 11. Yet...

  • 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

    Here Jeremiah turns to Idumeans, who were most inveterate enemies to the chosen people, though their origin ought to have disposed them to show kindness to them, for they had descended from the same f...

  • 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

    CONCERNING EDOM, THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS,.... Or, "unto Edom" i, thus saith the Lord; or, "against Edom" k; all which is true, as observed on Jeremiah 49:1; meaning the Idumeans, the posterity of...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; [Is] wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished? Ver. 7. _Is wisdom nowhere in Teman?_] The Edomites, and e...

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

    _Concerning Edom_ The destruction of Edom, or Idumea, is likewise foretold by Ezekiel, Joel, Amos, and Obadiah: see the margin. _Is wisdom no more in Teman_ “The eastern part of the world (by which is...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Concerning Edom, thus saith the Lord of hosts, Is wisdom no more in Teman? a city on the boundary of Idumea and Arabia, the home of Eliphaz, Job 2:11. IS COUNSEL PERISHED FROM THE PRUDENT? from those...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AGAINST EDOM...

  • 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

    The Edomites were the posterity of Esau the eldest son of Isaac, but disinherited, the blessing being given to his younger brother Jacob, who was the head of the twelve tribes of the Israelites, GENES...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 49:7 Edom H123 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 wisdom H2451 Teman H8487 counsel H6098 perished...

  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 49:7 EDOM. Descendants of Esau (Genesis 36:1) who lived south of the Dead Sea toward the Gulf of Aqaba....

  • 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 Chronicles 1:53; Amos 1:11; Amos 1:12; Daniel 11:41; Deuteronomy 23:

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Edom — The Edomites were the posterity of Esau the eldest son of Isaac, but disinherited; the blessing being given to his younger brother Jacob, who was head of the twelve tribes of Israel. God promis...

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