“ A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction. ”
Omit shall be. “Spoiling and great destruction,” literally breaking, is the cry heard from Horonaim Isaiah 15:5 .
Jeremiah 48. Moab (the territory E. of the Dead Sea, from Wady Kerak in the S. to the neighbourhood of Heshbon in the N.). Many of the numerous places named in this prophecy will be found on G. A....
Horonaim. Probably near Zoar. Compare Isaiah 15:5 .
By naming many cities, he shews that the whole land was doomed to ruin, so that no corner of it would be exempt from destruction. For the Moabites might have suffered some loss without much inj...
A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction. Horonaim - Another city of Moab, near to Luhith. At this latter place the hill country of Moab commenced. "It is a place,"...
A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction. Horonaim - the same as the city Avara, mentioned by Ptolemy. The word means the double caves (Sanballat, the opponent...
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...
Horonaim — literally, the two caverns, or the two Horons — may imply, like other dual names of towns, that there was an upper and a lower city. It is mentioned in Isaiah 15:5 , but has not been...
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...
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...
A voice of crying [shall be] from Horonaim ,.... Another city of Moab. The word is of the dual number; and, according to Kimchi and Ben Melech, there were two Horons, the upper and the lower; of thi...
A voice of crying [shall be] from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction. Ver. 3. A voice of crying. ] They would not cry for their sins: they shall therefore cry for their miseries with despe...
There shall be no more praise of Moab The glory of Moab shall be contemned, as Isaiah speaks, Isaiah 16:14 . Every thing for which it was famous shall be destroyed. In Heshbon they have devised e...
The Judgment of Moab. B. C. 605. 1 Against Moab thus saith the L ORD of hosts, the God...
Another city of Moab, mentioned only in this place, and in Isaiah 15:5 . Some think it the same with Horon, where Sanballat was born, Nehemiah 2:10 , Nehemiah 13:28 . The prophet threatens als...
The Destruction of Moab ( Jeremiah 48:1-13 ). 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 (compa...
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...
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-...
The Coming Devastation of Moab Described
Isaiah 15:2 ; Isaiah 15:5 ; Isaiah 15:8 ; Isaiah 16:7-11 ; Isaiah 22:4 ; Jeremiah 4:20 ; Jeremiah 4:21 ; Jeremiah 47:2 ; Jeremiah 48:34 ; Jeremiah 48:5
Horoniam — Another city of Moab.