Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 48:25
The (n) horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD.
(n) That is, his power and strength.
The (n) horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD.
(n) That is, his power and strength.
Verse Jeremiah 48:25. _THE HORN OF MOAB IS CUT OFF, AND HIS ARM IS BROKEN_] His political and physical powers are no more....
THE HORN - i. e., his pride (marginal reference); his arm, i. e., his strength Jeremiah 17:5....
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...
See introd. summary to the ch....
The _horn_is an emblem of strength, the _arm_of authority. For the former see Psalms 75:4-5; Psalms 75:10, for the latter ch. Jeremiah 17:5....
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...
The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD. THE HORN OF MOAB IS CUT OFF. The horn is the emblem of strength and sovereignty: it is the horned animal's means of offence and d...
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...
HORN] symbol of strength and pride....
THE HORN OF MOAB. — The horn of animals was naturally the symbol of their strength, and it was as natural that the symbolism should be extended to men and nations. (Comp. 1 Samuel 2:1; Psalms 92:10; L...
נִגְדְּעָה֙ קֶ֣רֶן מֹואָ֔ב וּ זְרֹעֹ֖ו נִשְׁבָּ֑רָה...
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...
By another metaphor he expresses the same thing. By _horn _he means power, as all who are in any measure acquainted with Scripture well know that by this word is set forth power, strength, or any defe...
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 HORN OF MOAB IS CUT OFF,.... The kingdom of Moab, high and strong, his power and strength, by which he defended himself, and offended others, as a beast with his horns; his powerful kingdom, and t...
The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD. Ver. 25. _The horn of Moab is cut off,_] _i.e., _ His strength, power, glory, kingdoms; his sultans and princes, saith the Chaldee....
_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...
The horn of Moab, emblem of strength and sovereignty, IS CUT OFF, AND HIS ARM IS BROKEN, SAITH THE LORD, he has lost all his former great power, his mighty position is shattered. All this, as the prop...
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...
That is, the beauty and the _strength of Moab_. So these two terms often signify in holy writ, the horn being much the beauty of some beasts, and that part of their bodies by which they both do injury...
Jeremiah 48:25 horn H7161 Moab H4124 off H1438 (H8738) arm H2220 broken H7665 (H8738) says H
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...
_The horn of Moab is cut off._ THE HISTORY OF MOAB The first charge brought against Moab is self-confidence, self-trust, self-sufficiency (Jeremiah 48:7). This makes us contemporaries of the Moabites...
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 7:8; Daniel 8:21; Daniel 8:7; Ezekiel 30:21; Job 22:9;...
The horn — That is the beauty and the strength of Moab....