Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 49:3
Ai — A city of the Ammonites, not the same mentioned, Joshua 7:2, for that was on the other side Jordan. By the hedges — Where they might be hidden, and not so easily seen.
Ai — A city of the Ammonites, not the same mentioned, Joshua 7:2, for that was on the other side Jordan. By the hedges — Where they might be hidden, and not so easily seen.
Verse Jeremiah 49:3. _RUN TO AND FRO BY THE HEDGES_] It is supposed that this may refer to the women making lamentations for the dead, that were in general buried by the walls of their _gardens_; but...
AI - Not the town on the west of the Jordan Joshua 7:2; a place not mentioned elsewhere. For Ai some read Ar. HEDGES - Fields were not divided by hedges until recent times; the term probably means the...
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)...
AMMON. The Ammonite territory lay eastward of part of that assigned to Gad, between Heshbon and the river Jabbok; the Ammonites appear to have occupied the territory of Gad after the deportation of it...
HESHBON. Compare Jeremiah 48:2. AI. An Ammonite town, not yet identified. CRY. cry sadly. HEDGES. fences....
_Howl, O Heshbon_ Heshbon was a Moabite city (Jeremiah 48:2; Jeremiah 48:34; Jeremiah 48:45), and an Ammonite Ai is otherwise unknown. Hence conjectural emendations are (_a_) to read (with Co.) for "H...
HOWL, O HESHBON— That is, "When Ai, a city of Ammon, is destroyed, it is time for Heshbon, the chief city of Moab, to lament her danger." The author of the _Observations_ remarks, that the phrase, _Ru...
V. AN ORACLE AGAINST AMMON Jeremiah 49:1-6 TRANSLATION (1) Against the children of Ammon. Thus says the LORD: Has Israel no sons; has he no heir? why does their king possess Gad, and his people dwell...
Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his pri...
49:3 Malcam (b-26) See Note g, ver. 1....
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...
HOWL, O HESHBON, FOR AI IS SPOILED. — Heshbon has appeared in Jeremiah 48:2; Jeremiah 48:45, as connected with the fortunes of Moab, but it was strictly an Ammonite city. The “Ai” here is obviously no...
הֵילִ֨ילִי חֶשְׁבֹּ֜ון כִּ֣י שֻׁדְּדָה ־עַ֗י צְעַקְנָה֮...
CHAPTER XX AMMON Jeremiah 49:1 "Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth Moloch possess Gad, and his people dwell in the cities thereof?"- Jeremiah 49:1 THE relations of Israel with Ammo...
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...
_Hai, or Je-abarim. Both these cities pertained also to Moab. --- Hedges. Hebrew Gederoth, may be the city Gadara. --- Melchom, or Moloc, who claimed dominion over this people. If they had used their...
The Chapter opens in a beautiful and striking manner, for the Lord himself, Israel's lawful Sovereign, demands, as in a court of justice, how, or wherefore it is, that the land he gave, (and as Lord a...
The Prophet now triumphs, as it were, over the land of Ammon, and, according to his accustomed manner, as we have before seen; for had the prophets spoken without metaphors, and simply narrated the th...
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...
HOWL, O HESHBON,.... Which was a city of Moab, though it formerly belonged to the Amorites; see Jeremiah 48:2; it was upon the border of Ammon, and near to Ai, now destroyed; and therefore is called u...
Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, [and] his priests and his pr...
_Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled_ This _“Ai_ must be a different city from that taken by Joshua, chap. 8., which lay on the west side of Jordan. Grotius mentions another city, called _Gaia_ by Ptol...
Howl, O Heshbon, at that time occupied by the Ammonites, FOR AI IS SPOILED, had already been subdued by the invaders; CRY, YE DAUGHTERS OF RABBAH, the towns and villages near the capital, GIRD YOU WIT...
AGAINST AMMON...
THEIR KING: Or, Melcom...
HESHBON was formerly a city of the Amorites, of whom Sihon was king, who resided here (but it appears by JEREMIAH 49:26 that it was taken from Moab); it is probable that it was at this time a city of...
Jeremiah 49:3 Wail H3213 (H8685) Heshbon H2809 Ai H5857 plundered H7703 (H8795) Cry H6817 (H8798) daughters...
JUDGMENT AGAINST AMMON (JEREMIAH 49:1). Ammon were a fierce, half-civilised nation beyond the eastern borders of Israel and Moab, with their further borders connecting with the deserts of Arabia with...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 49:3 HESHBON. See Jeremiah 48:2. AI. Location unknown; not the Ai of...
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...
1 Kings 11:33; 1 Kings 11:5; 2 Kings 23:13; Amos 1:15; Isaiah 13:6;...