Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Jeremiah 49:18
Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities were utterly destroyed, and therefore are set down, both here and Jeremiah 50:40, as patterns of an utter ruin and desolation.
Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities were utterly destroyed, and therefore are set down, both here and Jeremiah 50:40, as patterns of an utter ruin and desolation.
Verse Jeremiah 49:18. _AS IN THE OVERTHROW OF SODOM_] The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbouring cities was so terrible, that, when God denounces judgments against incorrigible sinners...
Edom stretched along the south of Judah from the border of Moab on the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean and the Arabian deserts, and held the same relation to Judah which Moab held toward the kingdom of...
CHAPTER 49 Concerning Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar, and Elam _ 1. Concerning the Ammonites (Jeremiah 49:1) _ 2. Concerning Edom (Jeremiah 49:7) 3. Concerning Damascus (Jeremiah 49:23)...
EDOM. For the land, and the relations of this people to Israel, see on Obadiah, from Jeremiah 49:1 of which the present prophecy has taken verbally Jeremiah 49:9; Jeremiah 49:14. This does not, in its...
THE OVERTHROW, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 19:25.Deuteronomy 29:23; Deuteronomy 29:23). App-92. A word almost restricted to that event....
These _vv_. are parallel to Obadiah 1:1-4, whence they are borrowed; see introd. note....
_Sodom and Gomorrah_ The comparison appears to be taken from Deuteronomy 29:23, where the neighbour cities are mentioned by name (_Admah_and _Zeboiim_). See Genesis 10:19; Genesis 14:2;...
B. The Subsequent Conditions Jeremiah 49:14-18 TRANSLATION (14) I have heard tidings from the LORD, and an ambassador has been sent to the nations: Gather yourselves and come against her! Rise up to...
As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it. AS IN THE OVERTHROW OF SODOM AND GOMORR...
AGAINST AMMON, EDOM, AND OTHER NATIONS 1-6. The territory of Ammon was N. of Moab, and the two peoples were connected by descent. The carrying away of the tribes on the E. of Jordan by Tiglath-pileser...
CONCERNING EDOM] The bitterness of the tone in which Edom is addressed in this prophecy is doubtless to be ascribed to the affinity between them and the Jews, which made the unnatural exultation of Ed...
SODOM AND GOMORRAH AND THE NEIGHBOUR CITIES THEREOF. — The destruction of the two cities named had become proverbial, as in Isaiah 1:9; Jeremiah 13:19; Amos 4:11. What is noticeable here is the mentio...
כְּֽ מַהְפֵּכַ֞ת סְדֹ֧ם וַ עֲמֹרָ֛ה וּ שְׁכֵנ
Against the children of Ammon Jeremiah raised a protest because their king was in possession of Gad. He declared that by the fierce judgment of war, they were to be dispossessed and driven forth. The...
The Edomites, the descendants of Esau, are here brought to account. Long grudge, and an old hatred to Jacob and his seed, marked this race: and to this hour the enmity hath not ceased. Galatians 4:29....
He expresses more at large what he had briefly included in one word: he had said, that Edom would become a _waste_; but he now shews what sort of waste it would be, even such as that of _Sodom and Gom...
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...
AS IN THE OVERTHROW OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH,.... Which was so sudden and general, that nothing was left, or any spared; so should it be with Edom: AND THE NEIGHBOUR [CITIES] THEREOF, SAITH THE LORD; th...
As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour [cities] thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it. Ver. 18. _As in the overthrow of Sodom....
_Edom shall be a desolation; every one shall hiss_, &c. See note on Jeremiah 18:16. _As in the overthrow of Sodom_, &c. A proverbial expression, denoting an utter destruction. _Behold, he shall come u...
AGAINST EDOM...
As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, namely, Admah and Zeboim, SAITH THE LORD, NO MAN SHALL ABIDE THERE, NEITHER SHALL A SON OF MAN DWELL IN IT, it would be an un...
7-22 The Edomites were old enemies to the Israel of God. But their day is now at hand; it is foretold, not only to warn them, but for the sake of the Israel of God, whose afflictions were aggravated b...
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JUDGMENT AGAINST EDOM (JEREMIAH 49:7). Edom lay to the south east of Judah stretching from the borders of Judah down to the Gulf of Aqabah, a distance of 100 miles. Its importance generally lay in the...
PROPHECY OF JUDGMENT ON THE NATIONS CONTINUED (JEREMIAH 49:1 TO JEREMIAH 51:64). Having learned that judgment was coming on Egypt, Philistia and Moab, we now go on to learn that it will also visit Am...
CONTENTS: Prophecies against the Ammonites, Edom, Damascus, Kedar, kingdoms of Hazor, Elam. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Nebuchadrezzar, Zedekiah. CONCLUSION: Nations that despise and persecute God's...
Jeremiah 49:1. _Hath Israel no sons; hath he no heir?_ In this bold and striking manner the prophet commences his elegy on Ammon. The king of Ammon had in times of war, seized the cities of Gad. By ev...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—The prophecies against _Ammon, Edom, Damascus,_ and _Kedar._ Jeremiah 49:1 are synchronous with the previous chapter, but the section (Jere...
EXPOSITION On Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar and Hazer, and Elam. JEREMIAH 49:1 The violence of the Ammonites shall be severely punished. JEREMIAH 49:1 HATH ISRAEL NO SONS! The violent seizure, perp...
Now in chapter 49, he speaks first of the Ammonites. Now, the Ammonites were those people who were north of Moab and east of the Jordan in the upper Jordan area, east of the Sea of Galilee and the Gol...
2 Peter 2:6; Amos 4:11; Deuteronomy 29:23; Genesis 19:24; Genesis 19:25