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Jeremiah 48:26

Make ye him drunken For the metaphor of drunkenness see on ch. Jeremiah 25:15.

he magnified himself against the Lord He resisted Reuben in his occupation of the territory which the Lord had assigned him, but also in much more recent times. See e.g. 2 Kings 24:2.

wallow or, splash into.

he also shall be in derision just as he derided Israel.

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See also Jeremiah 48:26 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    MAKE YE HIM DRUNKEN - With the wine-cup of God’s fury, until terror deprive him of his senses....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Enumeration of the cities which are to suffer (Jeremiah 48:20). The strength of Moab is destroyed, and Moab is become drunken (with the cup of Yahweh, Jeremiah 25:15), an object of present derision, a...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WALLOW IN. stagger or splash into....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    MOAB ALSO SHALL WALLOW— _And clap at Moab in his vomiting, that he also may become an object of derision._...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    D. Complete Degradation Jeremiah 48:18-28 TRANSLATION (18) Go down from your glory! Sit in thirst, O delicate daughter of Dibon; for the destroyer of Moab has gone up against you; he will destroy you...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision. MAKE YE HIM DRUNKEN - (note, ; ). Intoxicate him with the cup...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הַשְׁכִּירֻ֕הוּ כִּ֥י עַל ־יְהוָ֖ה הִגְדִּ֑יל וְ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Make ye him (o) drunk: for he magnified [himself] against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision. (o) He willed the Chaldeans to lay afflictions enough on the...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Drunk with the wine of God's wrath. --- Dash. Hebrew, "roll in," or "they shall clap hands over Moab, in," &c._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet now addresses the Chaldeans, who were to be the executioners of God’s vengeance: hence he says, _Make him drunk, because he has magnified himself against Jehovah_, that is, raised himself...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    MAKE YE HIM DRUNKEN,.... Not with wine, but with the cup of divine wrath; with the vengeance of God; with sore judgments, afflictions, and calamities; give him his fill of them, till he is quite intox...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Make ye him drunken: for he magnified [himself] against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision. Ver. 26. _Make ye him drunk._] _Ebrietas modis omnibus maledic...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Make ye him drunken_ God's judgments are often represented under the metaphor of a cup of intoxicating liquors: see note on Jeremiah 25:15. _Moab also shall wallow in his vomit_ The judgments which G...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Moab's Glory Followed by its Deep Fall...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Make ye him drunken, so the prophet addresses all those whom the Lord has made executors of His punishment, FOR HE MAGNIFIED HIMSELF AGAINST THE LORD, wherefore he must drink the cup of Jehovah's aven...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    MAKE YE HIM DRUNKEN; either make ye him to stagger like a drunken man, (the cause being put for the effect,) or fill him with the intoxicating wine cup of God's vengeance, with the effects of God's wr...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 48:26 drunk H7937 (H8685) exalted H1431 (H8689) LORD H3068 Moab H4124 wallow H5606 (H8804) vomit...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE HUMBLING OF MOAB AND JUDGMENT ON HER CITIES (JEREMIAH 48:14). Jeremiah 48:14 “How do you say, ‘We are mighty men, And valiant men for the war?' Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into hi...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 48:26 DRUNK. By drinking the cup of God’s wrath (Jeremiah 25:15). WALLOW IN HIS VOMIT. See...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Thessalonians 2:4; Daniel 11:36; Daniel 5:23; Daniel 8:11; Daniel

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Drunken — Fill him with the intoxicating wine of God's vengeance....

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