Jeremiah 48:6

Heath— Withered tree, Hiller, p. 86.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Like the heath - Or, Like a destitute man. See the marginal reference note.
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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,...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

lives . soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13. the heath . naked trees. Compare Jeremiah 17:6 .
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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,...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The heath ] see on Jeremiah 17:6 .
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XIX MOAB Jeremiah 48:1-47 "Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against Jehovah."- Jeremiah...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Coming Devastation of Moab Described
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And be — Save your lives, though all ye have be lost.

⁶ Flee, save your lives, and be like the heathc in the wilderness.

Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 48:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Jeremiah 48:6