Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Jeremiah 48:15
Moab is spoiled— Go up, O spoiler, to Moab; ascend into her cities; let her chosen young men descend to the slaughter, &c.
Moab is spoiled— Go up, O spoiler, to Moab; ascend into her cities; let her chosen young men descend to the slaughter, &c.
Rather, “Moab is spoiled,” and her cities have gone up, i. e., in smoke, have been burned Joshua 8:20. Others render, “The waster of Moab and of her towns is coming up to the attack, and her chosen yo...
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...
GONE UP... HER CITIES. her cities have gone up, or ascended in burning. SAITH THE KING. [is] the King's oracle. Compare Jeremiah 46:18. THE LORD OF HOSTS. See note on Jeremiah 6:6....
_Moab … her cities_ The Hebrew is difficult. Dr., followed by Pe., alters the MT. on the model of Jeremiah 48:18, so as to read, "The spoiler of Moab is come up against him, and his, etc....
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...
Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts. MOAB IS ... GONE UP ... HIS CHOSEN YOUNG MEN...
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...
AND GONE UP _out of her_ CITIES] RM 'and her cities are gone up _in smoke?_...
(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...
שֻׁדַּ֤ד מֹואָב֙ וְ עָרֶ֣יהָ עָלָ֔ה וּ מִבְחַ
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...
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...
MOAB IS SPOILED,.... The whole country is ruined; which is spoken of as present, though future, after the manner of prophecy, because of the certainty of it: AND GONE UP [OUT OF] HER CITIES; the inha...
Moab is spoiled, and gone up [out of] her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of hosts. Ver. 15. _Moab is spoiled._] _Quae hucusq...
_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 COMING DEVASTATION OF MOAB DESCRIBED...
Moab, as a result of this attitude, IS SPOILED AND GONE UP OUT OF HER CITIES, or, "men go up," that is, they take her cities, AND HIS CHOSEN YOUNG MEN, the soldiers of the country, ARE GONE DOWN TO TH...
HIS CHOSEN: _ Heb._ the choice of...
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...
MOAB IS SPOILED; your country will be wasted and spoiled. AND GONE UP OUT OF HER CITIES; the inhabitants of it shall be all driven out of their cities. The Hebrew is, _and her cities_, it, or _he, is...
Jeremiah 48:15 Moab H4124 plundered H7703 (H8795) up H5927 (H8804) cities H5892 chosen H4005 men...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 48:15 See Jeremiah 46:18. The LORD is the KING of all nations. Even Babyl
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...
Daniel 4:37; Isaiah 34:2; Isaiah 40:30; Isaiah 40:31; James 5:4;...