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Verse Jeremiah 48:11. _MOAB HATH BEEN AT EASE_] The metaphor here is
taken from the mode of preserving wines. They let them rest upon their
lees for a considerable time, as this improves them both in...
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Moab from the time it conquered the Emims Deuteronomy 2:9, and so
became a nation, had retained quiet possession of its land, and
enjoyed comparative prosperity. From the Moabite Stone we gather that...
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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
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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...
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HATH BEEN AT EASE. Since Moab had driven out the Emims (Deuteronomy
2:10).
REMAINED. stood....
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_Moab hath been at ease from his youth_ He hath not been driven from
his land hitherto. The feeling of horror at suffering expatriation, as
compared with the consequences of a more ordinary defeat in...
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See introd. summary to the ch....
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MOAB HATH BEEN AT EASE— Instead of _hath been at ease,_ the Chaldee
renders, _hath been opulent;—from his youth,_ means from the time of
Salmanezer. He hath never felt any calamity, since that judgmen...
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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...
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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...
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Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his
lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he
gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and...
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HE HATH SETTLED ON HIS LEES. — The image, found also in Zephaniah
1:12, is drawn from the practice of pouring wine from one vessel into
another to clarify it and improve its flavour. Wine not so treat...
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שַׁאֲנַ֨ן מֹואָ֜ב מִ נְּעוּרָ֗יו וְ
שֹׁקֵ֥ט ה
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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...
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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...
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Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his
lees, and hath not been (i) emptied from vessel to vessel, neither
hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, a...
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Fruitful as a vine. --- Lees. The wine has not been disturbed. It was
customary to keep it first in pits, (Mark xii. 1., and Isaias v. 1.)
and afterwards in large earthen vessels. Vina bibes Tauro dif...
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The Prophet Jeremiah, whom the Lord when giving him his commission,
had set over the nations and over the kingdoms, (see Jeremiah 1:10) is
here arraigning, trying, and condemning Moab; and an awful
co...
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Here he expresses more clearly what we have before seen, that Moab in
vain promised to himself perpetual impunity, because he had for a long
time been prosperous. Then the Prophet says that he would b...
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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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MOAB HATH BEEN AT EASE FROM HIS YOUTH,.... Lived in great peace and
prosperity from the time they became a kingdom; being very little
disturbed with wars by their neighbours, or very rarely; so that t...
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Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his
lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he
gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and h...
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_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...
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THE COMING DEVASTATION OF MOAB DESCRIBED...
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Moab hath been at ease from his youth, never really having suffered
the reverses which fell to the lot of some other nations, AND HE HATH
SETTLED ON HIS LEES, like poor wine which turns to vinegar aft...
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REMAINED:
_ Heb._ stood...
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MOAB HATH BEEN AT EASE FROM HIS YOUTH; the Moabites ever since they
began to be a people have been a quiet people, not exercised with
wars, and enemies making inroads upon them. HE HATH SETTLED ON HIS...
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Jeremiah 48:11 Moab H4124 ease H7599 (H8768) youth H5271 settled H8252
(H8802) dregs H8105 emptied H7324 ...
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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...
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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...
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Jeremiah 48:11
The principle that underlies the text is this: that we require to be
unsettled in life by many changes and interruptions of adversity, in
order to be most effectually loosened from our...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 48:11 MOAB has survived many previous
invasions (v. Jeremiah 48:9). Thus, Moab has become complacent and
settled on
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Ezekiel 16:49; Ezekiel 16:50; Isaiah 16:6; Isaiah 24:3; Isaiah 25:6;...
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At ease — The Moabites ever since they began to be a people, have
been a quiet people. Settled — Like a cask of wine, that has not
been racked but has continued in the same state. Not emptied — A
meta...