Jeremiah 48 - Introduction
_THE JUDGMENT OF MOAB, FOR THEIR PRIDE, FOR THEIR SECURITY, FOR THEIR CARNAL CONFIDENCE, AND FOR THEIR CONTEMPT OF GOD, AND HIS PEOPLE. THE RESTORATION OF MOAB._ _Before Christ 599._... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE JUDGMENT OF MOAB, FOR THEIR PRIDE, FOR THEIR SECURITY, FOR THEIR CARNAL CONFIDENCE, AND FOR THEIR CONTEMPT OF GOD, AND HIS PEOPLE. THE RESTORATION OF MOAB._ _Before Christ 599._... [ Continue Reading ]
AGAINST MOAB, &C.— The Moabites were in league with Zedekiah against Nebuchadnezzar: see chap. Jeremiah 27:3; Jeremiah 27:9, &c. But they gave Israel no assistance against him. See Jeremiah 48:26. _Nebo_ and _Kiriathaim,_ were the names of two cities of Moab, the latter of which was given to the Reu... [ Continue Reading ]
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 they have ascended the height of Luhith with weeping: in the descent of Horonaim the enemies,_ &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEATH— _Withered tree,_ Hiller, p. 86.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHEMOSH SHALL GO FORTH INTO CAPTIVITY— It was customary for the heathens to carry the images of their gods with them to battle; and the capture of these deities was deemed a very great acquisition. The prophets frequently ridiculed this absurdity of the Gentiles. See ch. Jeremiah 43:11 Jeremiah 46:2... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SPOILER SHALL COME— That is Nebuchadrezzar. This character is frequently given him in Scripture. See ch. Jeremiah 51:48 and Isaiah 33:1; Isaiah 33:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
CURSED BE HE, &C.— "Cursed is he who doth not execute with fidelity and the greatest exactness the orders of the Lord; cursed will ye be, O Chaldeans, if you spare Moab, if you treat her not with the utmost severity, since God hath appointed her to destruction, and you are only the executors of his... [ Continue Reading ]
MOAB HATH BEEN AT EASE— Instead of _hath been at ease,_ the Chaldee renders, _hath been opulent;—from his youth,_ means from the time of Salmanezer. He hath never felt any calamity, since that judgment foretold by Isaiah, and inflicted by Salmanezer; so that there were forty years between that capti... [ Continue Reading ]
MOAB IS SPOILED— _Go up, O spoiler, to Moab; ascend into her cities; let her chosen young men descend to the slaughter,_ &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOW IS THE STRONG STAFF BROKEN— _How is the powerful rod, the glorious sceptre broken!_ The Moabites were remarkable for their pride and vanity; of which Jeremiah speaks in the 29th verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SIT IN THIRST— _Dibon_ was a village in Moab famous for its waters. The prophet foretels that the inhabitants of it should be obliged to seek refuge in the desert, in dry and sandy places. See Isaiah 15:9. Houbigant renders it, _And sit in disgrace._ The places mentioned in the following verses... [ Continue Reading ]
MOAB ALSO SHALL WALLOW— _And clap at Moab in his vomiting, that he also may become an object of derision._... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WAS NOT ISRAEL A DERISION— Houbigant renders the verse thus; _For was not Israel a derision to thee, and wast thou not found with those who made songs upon him? How didst thou speak of him! how didst thou shake the head!_... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE SIDES OF THE HOLE'S MOUTH— _By the sides of the pit's mouth:_ that is, on the edge of the precipice. The mouth of the pit is the same as the brink of destruction; the pit or grave yawning wide, as it were, ready to swallow one up. And the image is peculiarly striking, when a person from the s... [ Continue Reading ]
I KNOW— _I know, saith_ JEHOVAH, _his fierce wrath; but he is not alike in the extent of his ability, he is not alike in performing._ See Vitringa on Isaiah 16:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVEN TO THE SEA OF JAZER— _Unto Jazer have they extended._... [ Continue Reading ]
THEIR SHOUTING SHALL BE NO SHOUTING— _The shouting will not be a shouting;_ or _will be a very different shouting._... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE, &C.— The music of pipes was used at funerals. See Sir Norton Knatchbull's notes on Matthew 9:23. See Isaiah 16:11. Galen compares the hoarse and dead sound of the bowels when they are empty to that of the flutes used at funerals. See lib. 3: de Symtomat. Causis.... [ Continue Reading ]
FEAR— _Terror._... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY THAT FLED, &C.— _But stand ye under the shadow of Heshbon, and confide in it: for a fire shall burst forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, which shall devour the hairs of Moab, and the necks of the sons of pride._ Houbigant. See Numbers 21:28 to which Jeremiah refers in thi... [ Continue Reading ]
YET WILL I BRING AGAIN, &C.— The Moabites were afterwards restored to their country, as appears from Josephus. Antiq. lib. 13: cap. 17. But these and similar promises of mercy, after judgment, are chiefly to be understood of the conversion of the Gentiles under the Gospel, and at last the bringing i... [ Continue Reading ]