“ Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. ”
Moab - Probably the city elsewhere called Ar-Moab. See the Septuagint of this verse.
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....
The Prophet speaks again generally of the whole country. It is said that the land of Moab was afflicted; not that it was so then; but to make certain the prophecy, he speaks of the event as hav...
Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. Her little ones have caused a cry - heightening the distress of the scene. The foe do not spare even infants.
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...
Her little ones. — The Hebrew adjective is the same as the Zoar, the little one, of Genesis 19:20 , and that city may probably have been, as in Isaiah 15:5 , in the prophet’s mind. In any case th...
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...
Moab is destroyed ,.... Either the whole nation in general; so the Targum, "the kingdom of Moab is broken;'' and so Abarbinel; or a city so called, which some take to be the city Areopolis. Jerom...
Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. Ver. 4. Moab is destroyed, ] i.e., Shall be shortly. Her little ones have caused a cry to be heard. ] While they either are...
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...
Moab was both the name of the whole country, and of a principal city in it. Some by it here understand the city; by her little ones some understand little children; others, inferior magistrates, or...
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
Esther 8:11 ; Numbers 21:27-30 ; Psalms 137:9