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Jeremiah 48:42
And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, losing its identity among the nations, because he hath magnified himself against the Lord, and Jehovah resisteth the proud.
And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, losing its identity among the nations, because he hath magnified himself against the Lord, and Jehovah resisteth the proud.
Verse Jeremiah 48:42. _MOAB SHALL BE DESTROYED FROM_ BEING _A PEOPLE_] They shall not have a king or _civil governor_: and I doubt whether there be any evidence that they were ever reinstated in thei...
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 40-47. The foe swoops down vulture-like (Jeremiah 4:13) on Moab, destroyed because of pride against Yahweh. One disaster succeeds another in this time of punishment (visitation, Jeremiah 11:2...
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...
G. Inescapable Destruction Jeremiah 48:39-46 TRANSLATION (39) How sad the dismay! They howl! How sad that Moab has turned the back in shame! Moab shall become an object of derision and terror to thos...
And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the LORD. BECAUSE HE HATH MAGNIFIED HIMSELF AGAINST THE LORD - (note, )....
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...
MOAB SHALL BE DESTROYED... — What is predicted is not annihilation (see Jeremiah 48:47), but the loss of national independence. And the cause of this punishment is once more asserted. With Moab, as wi...
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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...
_Cease for a time, till he regain his liberty under Cyrus, ver. 47._...
It would swell our Commentary to a length indeed, to enter minutely into the several branches of the visitations here set forth. Indeed it would only when done, tend to confirm what hardly needs furth...
He repeats what we have before observed, that the calamity of Moab would be a just reward for his pride and indeed his sacrilege. The Prophet then says that though God’s vengeance might seem extremely...
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...
AND MOAB SHALL BE DESTROYED FROM [BEING] A PEOPLE,.... For some time, not always; since the captivity of Moab is promised to be returned, Jeremiah 48:47; or from being such a people as they had been,...
And Moab shall be destroyed from [being] a people, because he hath magnified [himself] against the LORD. Ver. 42. _Because he hath magnified himself against the Lord,_] _i.e., _ Against his people, w...
_Behold, he shall fly as an eagle_ Conquerors are often compared to eagles and other birds of prey; and the encamping of their armies is represented by the spreading of the wings of such fowls. _The m...
14-47. The destruction of Moab is further prophesied, to awaken them by national repentance and reformation to prevent the trouble, or by a personal repentance and reformation to prepare for it. In r...
That is, for a time; see JEREMIAH 48:47; or being such a people as it hath been, so full of splendour and glory. The reason given is the same with that JEREMIAH 48:26....
Jeremiah 48:42 Moab H4124 destroyed H8045 (H8738) people H5971 exalted H1431 (H8689) LORD H3068 Moab -...
THE COMING JUDGMENT ON MOAB AND ITS FINAL RESTORATION (JEREMIAH 48:39). In its pride Moab considered itself invulnerable and well able to take care of itself. It exalted its own god, Chemosh, above YH...
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...
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 48:42 MOAB... MAGNIFIED itself AGAINST THE LORD by failing to accept God’s word concerning Babylon’s role as a divine instrument of judgment. See...
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...
2 Thessalonians 2:4; Daniel 11:36; Esther 3:8; Isaiah 37:23; Isaiah