Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 49:21
Verse Jeremiah 49:21. The earth is moved] The whole state is represented here as a vast building suddenly thrown down, so as to cause the earth to tremble, and the noise to be heard at a great distance.
Verse Jeremiah 49:21. The earth is moved] The whole state is represented here as a vast building suddenly thrown down, so as to cause the earth to tremble, and the noise to be heard at a great distance.
Edom stretched along the south of Judah from the border of Moab on the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean and the Arabian deserts, and held the same relation to Judah which Moab held toward the kingdom of...
CHAPTER 49 Concerning Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar, and Elam _ 1. Concerning the Ammonites (Jeremiah 49:1) _ 2. Concerning Edom (Jeremiah 49:7) 3. Concerning Damascus (Jeremiah 49:23)...
EDOM. For the land, and the relations of this people to Israel, see on Obadiah, from Jeremiah 49:1 of which the present prophecy has taken verbally Jeremiah 49:9; Jeremiah 49:14. This does not, in its...
THE NOISE THEREOF. Hebrew. its sound. Some codices, with eight early printed editions and Aramaean, read "at their noise" (plural) IN. at....
These _vv_. recur with variations in Jeremiah 50:44-46....
C. The Chosen Conqueror and the Divine Counsel Jeremiah 49:19-22 TRANSLATION (19) Behold, as a lion from the pride of Jordan goes up unto the strong habitation, so will I suddenly make him run from i...
The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea. THE NOISE THEREOF WAS HEARD IN - i:e., shall be heard at. THE RED SEA - a considerable distan...
AGAINST AMMON, EDOM, AND OTHER NATIONS 1-6. The territory of Ammon was N. of Moab, and the two peoples were connected by descent. The carrying away of the tribes on the E. of Jordan by Tiglath-pileser...
CONCERNING EDOM] The bitterness of the tone in which Edom is addressed in this prophecy is doubtless to be ascribed to the affinity between them and the Jews, which made the unnatural exultation of Ed...
RED SEA] probably the Gulf of Akaba, to the S. of Edom, not the Gulf of Suez....
THE NOISE THEREOF WAS HEARD IN THE RED SEA. — Literally, as in the margin, _the Weedy, or Reed sea._ The crash of the fall of Edom, the cries of the slaughtered people, were to be heard far off on the...
מִ קֹּ֣ול נִפְלָ֔ם רָעֲשָׁ֖ה הָ אָ֑רֶץ צְעָקָ
Against the children of Ammon Jeremiah raised a protest because their king was in possession of Gad. He declared that by the fierce judgment of war, they were to be dispossessed and driven forth. The...
The Edomites, the descendants of Esau, are here brought to account. Long grudge, and an old hatred to Jacob and his seed, marked this race: and to this hour the enmity hath not ceased. Galatians 4:29....
The Prophet in many words dwells on the same thing, in itself sufficiently clear; but as it was not easy to convince the Jews of what had been already said of the destruction of the Idumeans, the Prop...
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 EARTH IS MOVED AT THE NOISE OF THEIR FALL,.... Of the Edomites; whose fall was from the height of greatness and glory to a very low condition indeed; and as things, the higher they are from whence...
The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea. Ver. 21. _In the Red Sea,_] _i.e., _ A long way off; yet not so far as the doting Talmudists say...
_Therefore hear the counsel of the Lord_ Let them, the Edomites, hear and consider what God hath purposed against them. _Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out_ By the _least of the flock_,...
AGAINST EDOM...
The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, quaking with its intensity, AT THE CRY THE NOISE THEREOF WAS HEARD IN THE RED SEA, or, "a crying the noise of it is heard at the Red Sea. ...
RED SEA: _ Heb._ weedy Sea...
7-22 The Edomites were old enemies to the Israel of God. But their day is now at hand; it is foretold, not only to warn them, but for the sake of the Israel of God, whose afflictions were aggravated b...
That is, the ruin of the Edomites shall be so great, that all nations round about it shall be affected at the noise of their fall; and though the Red Sea, or the weedy sea, be at a great distance from...
Jeremiah 49:21 earth H776 shakes H7493 (H8804) noise H6963 fall H5307 (H8800) cry H6818 noise H6963 heard...
JUDGMENT AGAINST EDOM (JEREMIAH 49:7). Edom lay to the south east of Judah stretching from the borders of Judah down to the Gulf of Aqabah, a distance of 100 miles. Its importance generally lay in the...
PROPHECY OF JUDGMENT ON THE NATIONS CONTINUED (JEREMIAH 49:1 TO JEREMIAH 51:64). Having learned that judgment was coming on Egypt, Philistia and Moab, we now go on to learn that it will also visit Am...
CONTENTS: Prophecies against the Ammonites, Edom, Damascus, Kedar, kingdoms of Hazor, Elam. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Nebuchadrezzar, Zedekiah. CONCLUSION: Nations that despise and persecute God's...
Jeremiah 49:1. _Hath Israel no sons; hath he no heir?_ In this bold and striking manner the prophet commences his elegy on Ammon. The king of Ammon had in times of war, seized the cities of Gad. By ev...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—The prophecies against _Ammon, Edom, Damascus,_ and _Kedar._ Jeremiah 49:1 are synchronous with the previous chapter, but the section (Jere...
EXPOSITION On Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar and Hazer, and Elam. JEREMIAH 49:1 The violence of the Ammonites shall be severely punished. JEREMIAH 49:1 HATH ISRAEL NO SONS! The violent seizure, perp...
Now in chapter 49, he speaks first of the Ammonites. Now, the Ammonites were those people who were north of Moab and east of the Jordan in the upper Jordan area, east of the Sea of Galilee and the Gol...
Ezekiel 21:16; Ezekiel 26:15; Ezekiel 32:10; Isaiah 14:4;...