Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 48:19
Aroer - On the Arnon, due south of Dibon. If Dibon falls, the turn of Aroer will come next, and therefore its inhabitants are to be on the look out, asking for news.
Aroer - On the Arnon, due south of Dibon. If Dibon falls, the turn of Aroer will come next, and therefore its inhabitants are to be on the look out, asking for news.
Verse Jeremiah 48:19. _O INHABITANT OF AROER_] Jeremiah 48:6. This place, being at a greater distance, is counselled to watch for its own safety, and inquire of every passenger, _What is done_? that i...
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...
INHABITANT. inhabitress. Reference to "daughter' (Jeremiah 48:18). AROER. Now _'Ar'air,_ on the north bank of _Wady, Mojib_ (Arnon)....
_Aroer_ now - _Ara-ir_, not to be confounded with the Aroer of Numbers 32:34, a Gadite city, or with an Aroer belonging to Judah (1 Samuel 30:28). The Aroer of the text was a few miles S.W. of Dibon....
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...
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...
O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done? AROER - on the north bank of the Arnon, a city of Ammon (; ). O inhabitant of...
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...
O INHABITANT OF AROER. — There seems to have been two cities of this name: one which had belonged first to the territory of Sihon, then to Reuben, then to Moab, on the north side of the Arnon (Deutero...
אֶל ־דֶּ֛רֶךְ עִמְדִ֥י וְ צַפִּ֖י יֹושֶׁ֣בֶת...
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...
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...
We have stated elsewhere why the prophets in describing calamities spoke in so elevated a style; for their object was not to seek fame or the praise of eloquence. They are not these rhetorical ornamen...
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...
O INHABITANT OF AROER,.... Another city that belonged to Moab, situated on the border of it towards Ammon, near the river Arnon; Isaiah 17:2; STAND BY THE WAY, AND ESPY; get to the road side where t...
O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, [and] say, What is done? Ver. 19. _Stand by the way and espy, &c._] What brave rhetoric is here? _Tenend...
_Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon_ Thou that art exalted in pride, and rendered effeminate through luxury: Dibon being one of the chief cities of Moab; _come down from thy glory, and sit in thirs...
Moab's Glory Followed by its Deep Fall...
O inhabitant of Aroer, a city on the northern bank of the Arnon, originally belonging to Ammon, Deuteronomy 2:36; Deuteronomy 3:12, STAND BY THE WAY AND ESPY, watching, as it were, for the fugitive Mo...
INHABITANT: _ Heb._ inhabitress...
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...
AROER was a city in the lot of Gad and Reuben, NUMBERS 32:34. In David's time it was in the hand of the Jews, 1 SAMUEL 30:28, but in Isaiah's time it belonged to Syria, ISAIAH 17:2, and here it is rec...
Jeremiah 48:19 inhabitant H3427 (H8802) Aroer H6177 Stand H5975 (H8798) way H1870 watch H6822 (H8761) Ask...
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...
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...
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...
1 Chronicles 5:8; 1 Samuel 4:13; 1 Samuel 4:14; 1 Samuel 4:16; 2 Sa