NEAR TO COME - Twenty-three years elapsed between the fourth year of Jehoiakim, when this prophecy was spoken, and its accomplishment by the invasion of Moab five years after the capture of Jerusalem....
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
Moab, hitherto undisturbed, is compared with wine left standing on its sediment (Isaiah 25:6), and retaining its flavour and scent (_i.e._ being self-centred and undisciplined; _cf._ the pride of Jere...
HASTETH FAST. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:35). App-92....
See introd. summary to the ch....
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...
C. Prophetic Explanation Jeremiah 48:11-17 TRANSLATION (11) From his youth Moab has been at ease, and settled on his lees; he was not emptied from vessel to vessel, nor had he gone into captivity; th...
The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast. THE CALAMITY OF MOAB IS NEAR - to the prophet's eye, though probably 23 years elapsed between the utterance of the prophecy,...
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...
(14-17) HOW SAY YE... — In the boast that follows we trace the characteristic pride of Moab. The prophet points to the fact that the pride is brought low. She, too, is subject, like other nations, to...
קָרֹ֥וב אֵיד ־מֹואָ֖ב לָ בֹ֑וא וְ רָ֣עָתֹ֔ו
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...
_Swiftly; about twenty-three years from the fourth of Joakim._...
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...
Here the Prophet expresses something more, that the vengeance of which he spoke was near and hastening. It served to alleviate the sorrow of the faithful, when they understood that the Moabites would...
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...
THE CALAMITY OF MOAB [IS] NEAR TO COME,.... As it did come within live years after the destruction of Jerusalem, as observed on Jeremiah 48:12; out of Josephus: AND HIS AFFLICTION HASTETH FAST: or,...
The calamity of Moab [is] near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast. Ver. 16. _The calamity of Moab is near to come._] See on Jeremiah 48:15 ....
_And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh_, &c. They shall be disappointed in their expectations of succour from their tutelary idol, as the ten tribes have been in the trust they reposed in the calf they...
The calamity of Moab is near to come, so that destruction will soon overtake him, AND HIS AFFLICTION HASTETH FAST, his misfortune coming on apace, with great speed....
Moab's Glory Followed by its Deep Fall...
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...
Josephus tells us this destruction came upon the Moabites five years after the siege of Jerusalem; but if it were longer, we must consider that he who speaketh is that God to whom a thousand years is...
Jeremiah 48:16 calamity H343 Moab H4124 near H7138 hand H935 (H8800) affliction H7451 comes H4116 (H8765) quickly
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...
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...
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...
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 Peter 2:3; Deuteronomy 32:35; Ezekiel 12:23; Ezekiel 12:28;...
Is near — Josephus tells us this destruction came upon the Moabites five years after the siege of Jerusalem....