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John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 48:18

Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon,.... A city in Moab;

Isaiah 15:2. The Targum is,

"O kingdom of the congregation of Dibon;''

but this was not a kingdom of itself, though a principal city in the kingdom of Moab:

come down from [thy] glory, and sit in thirst; in a dry and thirsty land; in want of all the necessaries of life; in captivity; who before abounded with all good things, inhabiting a well watered and fruitful soil; see Isaiah 15:9; but now called to quit all their former glory and happiness, their fulness and felicity, and submit to the greatest straits and difficulties:

for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, [and] he shall destroy thy strong holds; the king of Babylon and his army, who spoiled the other cities of Moab; he should come against this also, and take it, and demolish its fortifications, by reason of which it thought itself secure; but these should not be able to protect it.

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See also Jeremiah 48:18 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 48:18. _THAT DOST INHABIT DIBON_] This was anciently a city of the Reubenites, afterwards inhabited by the Moabites, about two leagues north of the river Arnon, and about six to the eas...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    SIT IN THIRST - Jeremiah draws a picture of the conquered inhabitants, collected outside the walls, waiting for their captors to march them away to the slave mart. The enemy occupied with plundering t...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DIBON. Now _Dhiban._ Ruins north of the river Arnon. Compare Jeremiah 48:22....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _thou daughter that dwellest_(mg. _art seated) in Dibon_ meaning, inhabitants of Dibon See on Jeremiah 4:11. _Dibon_ now _Diban_(the "Moabite stone" was found there in 1868) stands on two hills. Henc...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. summary to the ch....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND SIT IN THIRST— _Dibon_ was a village in Moab famous for its waters. The prophet foretels that the inhabitants of it should be obliged to seek refuge in the desert, in dry and sandy places. See Isa...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    D. Complete Degradation Jeremiah 48:18-28 TRANSLATION (18) Go down from your glory! Sit in thirst, O delicate daughter of Dibon; for the destroyer of Moab has gone up against you; he will destroy you...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holds. THOU DAUGHTER - (, "O virgin d...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    48:18 drought, (c-10) Lit. 'in thirst.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    AGAINST MOAB Moab, in recompense for its pride and security, and for its triumphing over Israel in the day of her calamity, shall itself be laid waste and taken captive: cp. the 'burden of Moab 'in I...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    COME DOWN] Dibon stands on two hills....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    רְדִ֤י מִ כָּבֹוד֙ _וּ_†_שְׁבִ֣י_† בַ † צָּמ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

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

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Thirst. Dibon was well supplied with water, Isaias xv. 9._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    It would swell our Commentary to a length indeed, to enter minutely into the several branches of the visitations here set forth. Indeed it would only when done, tend to confirm what hardly needs furth...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Here the Prophet turns to address the city Dibon, which was renowned among that people. The mode of speaking is well known; he calls the people of the city the _daughter of Dibon_; and he calls the da...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from [thy] glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, [and] he shall destroy thy strong holds. Ver. 18. _And sit in thirs...

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

    _Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon_ Thou that art exalted in pride, and rendered effeminate through luxury: Dibon being one of the chief cities of Moab; _come down from thy glory, and sit in thirs...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Moab's Glory Followed by its Deep Fall...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    14-47. The destruction of Moab is further prophesied, to awaken them by national repentance and reformation to prevent the trouble, or by a personal repentance and reformation to prepare for it. In r...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 48:18 daughter H1323 inhabiting H3427 (H8802) Dibon H1769 down H3381 (H8798) glory H3519 sit H3427 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE HUMBLING OF MOAB AND JUDGMENT ON HER CITIES (JEREMIAH 48:14). Jeremiah 48:14 “How do you say, ‘We are mighty men, And valiant men for the war?' Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into hi...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Exodus 17:3; Ezekiel 19:13; Genesis 21:16; Isaiah 15:2; Isaiah 47:1;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Dibon — Dibon, Aroer, and Ataroh were built by the children of Gad. It should seem the Moabites were not come into the possession of them. In thirst — It was a place well watered, but God threatens sh...

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