Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 48:20
Verse Jeremiah 48:20. Tell ye it in Arnon] Apprize the inhabitants there that the territories of Moab are invaded, and the country about to be destroyed, that they may provide for their own safety.
Verse Jeremiah 48:20. Tell ye it in Arnon] Apprize the inhabitants there that the territories of Moab are invaded, and the country about to be destroyed, that they may provide for their own safety.
Or, “Moab is ashamed, because she (Dibon) is broken” by her fortifications being battered down....
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
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...
ARNON. Now _Wady Mojib,_ on the east side of the Dead Sea....
See introd. summary to the ch....
The metrical arrangement begun in Jeremiah 48:17 ends in the middle of Jeremiah 48:20. From "tell ye it" onwards to the end of Jeremiah 48:24 is in all probability a later addition. Of the places not...
_broken down_ See on Jeremiah 48:1. _in Arnon_ rather, BY THE _Arnon_, i.e. on its banks....
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...
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...
Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled, MOAB IS CONFOUNDED - answer of the flying Moabites to the Ammonite inquirers (; ). He enumerates...
48:20 down. (d-10) Or 'dismayed.'...
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...
TELL YE IT IN ARNON. — The name, which means a rushing stream, belonged to the chief river of Moab, now the _Mugab,_ which rises in the Arabian mountains and flows into the Dead Sea. It appears in the...
הֹבִ֥ישׁ מֹואָ֛ב כִּֽי ־חַ֖תָּה _הֵילִ֣ילוּ_† ׀ _וּֽ_†_זְעָ֑קוּ_†...
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...
(m) Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: wail and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is laid waste, (m) Thus they who flee will answer....
_Arnon, on which river Aroer stood._...
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 why the Prophet describes so fully the ruin of the Moabites, and dwells so long on a subject in no way obscure; it was not indeed enough merely to teach and to show what was useful to b...
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 CONFOUNDED, FOR IT IS BROKEN DOWN,.... This is the answer returned, by those that had escaped and were fleeing, to those who inquired of them; who report that the whole country of Moab was in...
Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled, Ver. 20. _Moab is confounded._] See on Jeremiah 48:15 . _ Tell it in Arnon._] In the cities standi...
_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 is confounded, put to shame and confusion; FOR IT IS BROKEN DOWN; HOWL AND CRY! TELL YE IT IN ARNON, the former northern boundary between Moab and Ammon, THAT MOAB IS SPOILED, the news of its des...
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...
ARNON was the name of a river, NUMBERS 21:14 DEUTERONOMY 2:36 JOSHUA 12:1. It was the border of Moab, whither Balak went to meet Balaam,...
Jeremiah 48:20 Moab H4124 shamed H3001 (H8689) down H2865 (H8804) Wail H3213 (H8685) cry H2199 ...
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 48:20 The fleeing ones explain that Moab IS BROKEN (v. Jeremiah 48:12). The ARNON is a river just south
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...
Deuteronomy 2:36; Isaiah 15:1; Isaiah 15:8; Isaiah 16:2; Isaiah 16:7
Arnon — Arnon was the name of a river; it was the border of Moab: probably the adjacent country or city might take its name from the river....