lives. soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.
the heath. naked trees. Compare Jeremiah 17:6.
Like the heath - Or, Like a destitute man. See the marginal reference note.
Flee, save your lives, and be like the (e) bush in the wilderness. (e) Hide yourselves in barren places, where the enemy will not pursue after you,...
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 pla...
Then he adds, Flee, save: this is the crying of distress; for miserable men, as the case is in extreme evils, mutually exhort one another,...
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness. Flee, save your lives - The enemy is in full pursuit of you. Be like the heath - כער...
Heath— Withered tree, Hiller, p. 86.
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness. Flee, save your lives. They exhort one another to flee. Be like the hea...
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 w...
The heath ] see on Jeremiah 17:6 .
Be like the heath in the wilderness. — Here, as in Jeremiah 17:6 , the stunted solitary shrub in the desert is taken as the type of desolation. Th...
CHAPTER XIX MOAB Jeremiah 48:1-47 "Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against Jehovah."- Jeremiah...
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 standp...
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 arr...
Flee, save your lives ,.... These are either the words of the Moabites, their cry of destruction mentioned in the latter part of Jeremiah 48:5 ; w...
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness. Ver. 6. Flee, save your lives. ] Whatever else ye lose. And be like the heath i...
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 s...
The Judgment of Moab. B. C. 605. 1 Aga...
It is of no great moment whether we understand these as the words of the Moabites, calling one to another to flee, and save their lives, though they...
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...
D). Prophecy Against Moab ( Jeremiah 48:1-47 ). Whilst the Philistines were a constant trouble to Israel/Judah from the west, mainly troubling wes...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. Chronology of the Chapter .—Naegelsbach suggests, with ample justification, that “this prophecy certainly belongs...
Jeremiah 48:1 . Against Moab, saith the Lord. Isaiah had prophesied of the devastation of Moab by Salmaneser: chap. 15, 16. Jeremiah here speaks o...
Flee, save your lives. The Christian’s flight Such was the warning addressed to Moab by the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel. The Chaldeans wer...
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...
The Coming Devastation of Moab Described
Flee! so the cry goes forth to them, save your lives and be like the heath in the wilderness, like forsaken ones, like those stripped of everything...
Genesis 19:17 ; Hebrews 6:18 ; Jeremiah 17:6 ; Jeremiah 51:6 ; Job 30:3-7 ; Luke 17:31-33 ; Luke 3:7 ; Matthew 24:16-18 ; Proverbs 6:4 ; Pr...
And be — Save your lives, though all ye have be lost.
6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heathc in the wilderness.