What does Jeremiah 48:1 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: Misgaba is confounded and dismayed."
CHAPTER XLVIII _The following prophecy concerning the Moabites is supposed to_ _have had its accomplishment during the long siege of Tyre in_ _the reign of Nebuchadnezzar. The whole of this chapter...
AGAINST MOAB - Concerning Moab. IS CONFOUNDED - Is brought to shame. MISGAB - The high fort; some special fortress, probably Kir-haraseth 2 Kings 3:25....
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 on account of its prid...
JEREMIAH 48. MOAB (the territory E. of the Dead Sea, from Wady Kerak in the S. to the neighbourhood of Heshbon in the N.). Many of the numerous places named in this prophecy will be found on G. A. Smi...
THE FORTY-FOURTH PROPHECY OF JEREMIAH (see book comments for Jeremiah). Against. concerning. MOAB. Always hostile to Israel. Compare Judges 3:12, Jdg 3:28. 1 Samuel 14:47; 2 Samuel 8:2; 2 Kings 1:1;...
_Moab_ Its territory was the high tableland E. of the Dead Sea. See further on Jeremiah 48:2. _Nebo_ not the mountain (Deuteronomy 32:49; Deuteronomy 34:1), but the city (Numbers 32:38). It was taken...
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. _Ne...
A. Advancing Devastation Jeremiah 48:1-6 TRANSLATION (1) Concerning Moab: Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Woe unto Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is put to shame, is captured...
Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed. It had taken part with the Cha...
48:1 Misgab (f-27) Or 'the fortress.'...
NEBO] not the mountain, but the Reubenite town (Numbers 32:38), which had been annexed by Mesha, king of Moab (about 895 b.C.), according to the 'Moabite Stone 'records. Several places mentioned in th...
XLVIII. (1) AGAINST MOAB THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS... — Better, with a different punctuation, _Concerning Moab_ (this being the title of the section), _Thus saith the Lord of hosts._ In the long pr...
לְ מֹואָ֡ב כֹּֽה ־אָמַר֩ יְהוָ֨ה צְבָאֹ֜ות אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל הֹ֤וי אֶל ־נְבֹו֙ כִּ֣י שֻׁדָּ֔דָה הֹבִ֥ישָׁה
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 Israelan...
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...
Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe to (a) Nebo! for it is laid waste: Kiriathaim is confounded [and] taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed. (a) These were cities of...
_Moab. This people broke their covenant with Sedecias, yet were punished for having entered into it, five years after the taking of Jerusalem. (Josephus) (St. Jerome, in chap. xxv. 32.) --- The same w...
CONTENTS In this Chapter Moab is called to account, and a long and trying account it is. The last verse, however, (and probably in allusion to the Gentiles given to Christ in Moab), closes with a gra...
This prophecy is against the Moabites, who, though they derived their origin from Lot, and were of the same blood with the Israelites, had yet been inimical to them. This prophecy would be uninteresti...
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...
AGAINST MOAB THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL,.... The prophecy concerning Moab is introduced with these epithets of God, partly to observe that the God of Israel was the only true God,...
Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded [and] taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed. Ver. 1. _Against Moab._] That...
_Against Moab_ Hebrew, למואב, _To_, or, _concerning Moab, thus saith the Lord of hosts_ This prophecy concerning the Moabites, as also the following which respect the Ammonites, Edomites, and other ne...
Against Moab. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Woe unto Nebo! an important city in Southwestern Moabitis. FOR IT IS SPOILED, laid waste by the enemies; KIRIATHAIM, another ancient city...
MISGAB: Or, the high place...
JEREMIAH CHAPTER 48 The judgment of Moab, JEREMIAH 48:1, for their pride, JEREMIAH 48:7; for their security and human confidence, JEREMIAH 48:11; especially for their contempt of God, and insolence to...
Jeremiah 48:1 Moab H4124 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 God H430 Israel H3478 Woe H1945 Nebo H5015 plundered H7703 (H8795) Kirjathaim H7156 shamed H3001 (H8689) taken H3920 (H8738) stronghol...
THE DESTRUCTION OF MOAB (JEREMIAH 48:1). Note how, as in Isaiah 15, the towns and prominent places are mentioned by name. Some of them were towns that had been taken over from Israel (compare Mesha's...
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 48:1 The location of NEBO is uncertain; perhaps it was near Mount Nebo, 12 miles (19 km) east of the northernmost point of the Dead Sea. KIRIATHAIM was probably near Nebo. FO...
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...
2 Chronicles 20:10; Amos 2:1; Amos 2:2; Ezekiel 25:8; Genesis 19:37; Isaiah 15:2; Isaiah 16:14; Isaiah 25:10; Isaiah 27:3; Jeremiah 25:21;...