Jeremiah 48:15

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 ARE GONE DOWN TO THE SLAUGHTER - in antithesis. OUT OF HER CITIES - rather, 'Moab ... and her cities are gone up'-namely, pass away in the ascending smoke of their conflagration (; ). When this took place, the young warriors would go down from the burning citadels only to meet their own slaughter (Grotius). The English version is somewhat favoured by the fact that "gone out" is singular, and cities plural, which seems to imply that "Moab" alone is nominative to it, and not also "her cities." Maurer thinks the singular is used in reference to the...

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 reading this long roll of threatenings, and mediating on the terror, it will be of more use to us to keep in view the power of God's anger and the terror of his judgments, and to have our hearts possessed with a holy awe of God and of his wrath, than to search into all the figures and expressions here used. Yet it is not perpetual destruction. The chapter ends with a promise of their return out of captivity in the latter days. Even with Moabites God will not contend for ever, nor be always wroth. The Jews refer it to the days of the Messiah; then the captives of the Gentiles, under the yoke of sin and Satan, shall be brought back by Divine grace, which shall make them free indeed....

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 youths are gone down to the slaughter.”...

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 Isaiah 16:6; Isaiah 15:4, Isaiah 15:5, Isaiah 15:6; Isaiah 16:12, Isaiah 16:11;...

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 inhabitants of Moab were gone up out of their cities, either through fear and flight; or through force, being made to go out of them, and were carried captive. The Targum is, "the Moabites are spoiled, and their cities are desolate;'' and so Kimchi interprets it, "the multitude of her cities is made to cease;'' the people of them. It might be as well rendered, "and he is gone up to her cities" u; that is, the spoiler w, as Kimchi's father rightly interprets it; see Jeremiah 48:8; or it may be rendered, "and his cities, into which he went up" x; that is, those are spoiled and destroyed, into which the Moabites used to go up, bein

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 pride (Jeremiah 48:29) With these divisions the chapter may be studied in detail. Moab was of incestuous off spring Genesis 19:37. Israel is now exhorted to flee and save itself because Moab is to be destroyed. Moab's national deity was Chemosh, who was also worshipped by the sister nation, the

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 Jeremiah 48:29). But now she is roughly handled, and the jars (Jeremiah 48:12 _mg._ 2) broken. She shall be put to shame through (the helplessness of) Chemosh (so render in Jeremiah 48:13), as Israel was through her false trust in the worship at Bethel (Amos 5:5). In spite of her warriors, she is soon to be ravaged, and a dirge ...

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....

See introd. summary to the ch....

MOAB IS SPOILED— _Go up, O spoiler, to Moab; ascend into her cities; let her chosen young men descend to the slaughter,_ &c....