Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 48:5
Luhith — To this city the Moabites fled for sanctuary, and flying made so great an out — cry that their enemies who pursued them heard it.
Luhith — To this city the Moabites fled for sanctuary, and flying made so great an out — cry that their enemies who pursued them heard it.
Luhith was situated upon an eminence, and Jeremiah describes one set of weeping fugitives as pressing close upon another. IN THE GOING DOWN OF HORONAIM ... - Rather, in the descent of Horonaim they h...
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...
LUHITH. _'_ Now _Tal'atel Heith,_ one mile west of Mount Nebo....
See preceding note....
Both these _vv_. are probably later than Jeremiah....
FOR IN THE GOING-UP OF LUHITH— _Surely at the ascent of Luhith weeping shall go up after weeping; surely at the descent of Horonaim mine enemies have heard a cry of destruction._ Houbigant reads, _For...
A. Advancing Devastation Jeremiah 48:1-6 TRANSLATION (1) Concerning Moab: Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Woe unto Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is put to shame, is captured;...
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 in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction. IN THE GOING UP OF LUHITH ... GOING DOWN OF HORONAIM - H...
RV 'For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up.'...
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...
IN THE GOING UP OF LUHITH. — Here again we have an echo from Isaiah 15:5. Jerome (_Onomast. s.v. Luith_) describes it as between Zoar and Areopolis (= Rabbath-Moab). The ascent was probably to a local...
כִּ֚י מַעֲלֵ֣ה _הַ_†_לֻּחִ֔ית_† בִּ בְכִ֖י יַֽעֲלֶה...
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 in the ascent of (d) Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the descent of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction. (d) Horonaim and Luhith were two places by which the Moabite...
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...
Here Jeremiah uses another figure, that the weeping would be everywhere heard in the ascent to Luhith. It is probable, and it appears from the Prophet’s words, that this city was situated on a high pl...
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 IN THE GOING UP OF LUHITH CONTINUAL WEEPING SHALL GO UP,.... This is another city, which was built on a high hill, which had a considerable ascent to it, whither those that escaped from Horonaim m...
For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction. Ver. 5. _Continual weeping shall go up._] Heb., Weeping wit...
_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 shall be destroyed. _In Heshbon they have devised evil...
For in the going up of Luhith, a town in the hilly section south of the Arnon, CONTINUAL WEEPING SHALL GO UP; FOR IN THE GOING DOWN OF HORONAIM, which lay in the plain, THE ENEMIES HAVE HEARD A CRY OF...
THE COMING DEVASTATION OF MOAB DESCRIBED...
CONTINUAL WEEPING: _ Heb._ weeping with weeping...
Of LUHITH we read only in this place, and ISAIAH 15:5; it was a city of Moab, and situated upon a hill, as appears both here and where it is mentioned in Isaiah. Some think that to this city the Moabi...
Jeremiah 48:5 Ascent H4608 Luhith H3872 ascend H5927 (H8799) continual H1065 weeping H1065 descent H4174 Horonaim H277
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...
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 48:5 ASCENT OF LUHITH. Perhaps in southern Moab on the way to Zoar. See Isaiah 15:5. DESCENT OF HORONAIM. Locatio
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...
Isaiah 15:5...