Jeremiah 49:1
CONTENTS The judgments of the Ammonites takes up the former part of this Chapter. In it we have also the condemnation of Edom, Damascus, Kedar, Hazor, and Elam.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONTENTS The judgments of the Ammonites takes up the former part of this Chapter. In it we have also the condemnation of Edom, Damascus, Kedar, Hazor, and Elam.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 and proprietor of the whole earth he had a right to give), to Israel, is now possessed by the childre... [ Continue Reading ]
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. I cannot add to the beauty of this passage; neither is it possible to illustrate and explain it, eq... [ Continue Reading ]
In the prophecies of Zechariah we have a similar threatening against Damascus. Zechariah 9:1. The Lord is visiting his enemies, and the enemies of his Church, and therefore the day is awful.... [ Continue Reading ]
Kedar was the son of Ishmael, and as the son of the bond-woman mocked, so his posterity. All must be accounted for therefore in the day of judgment.... [ Continue Reading ]
We have here the continuation of the same or similar judgments: and all by one and the same Destroyer. It is not to be wondered at that Babylon should be so lifted up with pride, when the Lord had made Babylon the scourge of all nations!... [ Continue Reading ]
I beg the Reader, as he closeth this account, to mark the sweet promise of grace to Elam, in the latter days. And when he hath done it, let him consult the Prophet Joel for the meaning of the phrase latter days; and the Acts of the Apostles, for the fulfillment of the promise, when the Holy Ghost wa... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS IN reading this Chapter, and beholding the gracious Covenant promises of God in Christ, thus held forth to the full assurance of faith for the final destruction of all the Church's adversaries every child of God by promise, as Isaac was, may well join that hymn of old, and say; so let a... [ Continue Reading ]