“ The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD. ”
The horn - i. e., his pride (marginal reference); his arm, i. e., his strength Jeremiah 17:5 .
The (n) horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD. (n) That is, his power and strength.
Enumeration of the cities which are to suffer ( Jeremiah 48:20-24 ). The strength of Moab is destroyed, and Moab is become drunken (with the cup of Yahweh, Jeremiah 25:15 ), an object of present der...
By another metaphor he expresses the same thing. By horn he means power, as all who are in any measure acquainted with Scripture well know that by this word is set forth power, strength, or...
The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD. The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken - His political and physical powers are no more.
The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD. The horn of Moab is cut off. The horn is the emblem of strength and sovereignty: it is the horned animal's means of offence...
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 'i...
The horn of Moab. — The horn of animals was naturally the symbol of their strength, and it was as natural that the symbolism should be extended to men and nations. (Comp. 1 Samuel 2:1 ; Psalms 92...
CHAPTER XIX MOAB Jeremiah 48:1-47 "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 agains...
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 i...
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 furt...
The horn of Moab is cut off ,.... The kingdom of Moab, high and strong, his power and strength, by which he defended himself, and offended others, as a beast with his horns; his powerful kingdom, an...
The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD. Ver. 25. The horn of Moab is cut off, ] i.e., His strength, power, glory, kingdoms; his sultans and princes, saith the Chalde...
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 thir...
The Judgment of Moab. B. C. 605. 14 How say ye, We are mighty and strong men for the...
That is, the beauty and the strength of Moab . So these two terms often signify in holy writ, the horn being much the beauty of some beasts, and that part of their bodies by which they both do injur...
D). Prophecy Against Moab ( Jeremiah 48:1-47 ). Whilst the Philistines were a constant trouble to Israel/Judah from the west, mainly troubling western Israel/Judah, eastern Israel/Judah, especiall...
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 y...
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 Nebuchad...
The horn of Moab is cut off. The history of Moab The first charge brought against Moab is self-confidence, self-trust, self-sufficiency ( Jeremiah 48:7 ). This makes us contemporaries of the Mo...
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-...
Moab's Glory Followed by its Deep Fall
Daniel 7:8 ; Daniel 8:21 ; Daniel 8:7-9 ; Ezekiel 30:21-25 ; Job 22:9 ; Lamentations 2:3 ; Numbers 32:37 ; Psalms 10:15 ; Psalms 37:17 ; Psalms 75:10 ; Zechariah 1:19-21
The horn — That is the beauty and the strength of Moab.