Bulwarks. Hebrew, "works," or possessions of corn, cattle, &c. (Calmet) --- Chamos, the idol of the Moabites. (Challoner) --- He was esteemed the king of the country, as the devil is the ape of God. The prophets often deride the imbecility of these idols, chap. xliii., and xi. The chief idol of Moab shall fall, to shew the vanity of trusting in idols. (Worthington)
Verse Jeremiah 48:7. _CHEMOSH SHALL GO FORTH INTO CAPTIVITY_] The grand national idol of the Moabites, Numbers 21:29; Judges 11:24. Ancient idolaters used to take their gods with them to the field of...
WORKS - Possibly the products of labor. The versions render fortifications. CHEMOSH - As the national god of Moab Numbers 21:29, he represents the whole land; and his being led into captivity implies...
CHAPTER 48 Concerning Moab _ 1. The overthrow of Moab (Jeremiah 48:1) _ 2. The humiliation of Moab (Jeremiah 48:11) 3. Reaping what they sowed (Jeremiah 48:20) 4. Destroyed o
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. Smi...
THOU SHALT ALSO. thou too shalt. CHEMOSH SHALL GO FORTH INTO CAPTIVITY. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 21:29). App-92. See App-54, and compare Judges 11:24. 1Ki 11:7. 2 Kings 23:13....
_in thy works and in thy treasures_ "works" perhaps meaning _results of work, gains_. This is suggested by the word "treasures" which follows. Cp. ch. Jeremiah 20:5, where, however, the Hebrew (transl...
CHEMOSH SHALL GO FORTH INTO CAPTIVITY— It was customary for the heathens to carry the images of their gods with them to battle; and the capture of these deities was deemed a very great acquisition. Th...
B. Urgent Exhortation Jeremiah 48:7-10 TRANSLATION (7) Surely because you trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also shall be captured. Chemosh shall go out into captivity, his priests and...
IV. THE ORACLE AGAINST MOAB Jeremiah 48:1-47 The Moabites occupied the region east of the Dead Sea and for the most part south of the river Arnon. The Arnon flows through a steep, twisting gorge in th...
For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together. BECAUSE THOU HAST TRU...
48:7 Chemosh (l-19) The Moabitish divinity....
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 'in I...
CHEMOSH] the god of Moab's national worship....
CHEMOSH SHALL GO FORTH INTO CAPTIVITY. — The name appears as that of the national deity of Moab in Numbers 21:29, as worshipped also by the Ammonites in Judges 11:24. Solomon introduced and Josiah abo...
כִּ֠י יַ֣עַן בִּטְחֵ֤ךְ בְּ מַעֲשַׂ֨יִךְ֙ וּ...
CHAPTER XIX MOAB Jeremiah 48:1 "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 against Israeland...
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 is...
For because thou hast trusted in thy (f) works and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken: and (g) Chemosh shall go forth into captivity [with] his priests and his princes together. (f) That is,...
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 co...
Jeremiah assigns here the reason why God would take vengeance on the Moabites; but we shall hereafter see other reasons why God had been so much displeased with them. Let us then know that we are not...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 45 THROUGH 51. Chapter 45 gives us the prophecy with respect to Baruch, already mentioned. Chapter 46 and following Chapter s contain the prophecies against t...
FOR BECAUSE THOU HAST TRUSTED IN THY WORKS,.... The strong works and fortifications they had made about their cities, and so thought themselves safe in them; which is the sense of the Septuagint and V...
For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity [with] his priests and his princes together. Ver. 7. _For because...
_Chemosh shall go_, &c. Chemosh was the idol of the Moabites, Numbers 21:29. _The valley also shall perish and the plain_ Those who live in the country, with their flocks and pastures, shall be involv...
For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, in her successful undertakings and the wealth which she had thereby amassed, THOU SHALT ALSO BE TAKEN, the land subdued and its inhabit...
THE COMING DEVASTATION OF MOAB DESCRIBED...
Whether by WORKS in this place he meant their riches, got by the labour of their hands, or _their idols_, which often are called, by way of defamation, the works of their own hands, or their fortifica...
Jeremiah 48:7 trusted H982 (H8800) works H4639 treasures H214 taken H3920 (H8735) Chemosh H3645 forth H3318 ...
D). PROPHECY AGAINST MOAB (JEREMIAH 48:1). Whilst the Philistines were a constant trouble to Israel/Judah from the west, mainly troubling western Israel/Judah, eastern Israel/Judah, especially east of...
THE DESTRUCTION OF MOAB (JEREMIAH 48:1). 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 (compare Mesha's...
TRUSTED (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...
CONTENTS: Prophecy against Moab. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Jehovah has all armies at His command. He will in His own time plead the cause of His people against a people that have always...
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 Nebuchadnez...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 48:7 CHEMOSH was Moab’s national deity. Human sacrifice was part of Moab’s rituals for Chemosh (2 Kings 3:27). shall go
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 year...
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 48:29-24 recur...
In forty-eight, he now directs his attention to Moab. Moab was across the Jordan on the east side of the Jordan River and of the Jordan rift. Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Isr...
1 Kings 11:33; 1 Kings 11:7; 1 Timothy 6:17; Ezekiel 28:2; Hosea 10:
Trusted — In thy idols. Chemosh — Chemosh was their principal idol....