What does Jeremiah 48:18 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holds."
Verse Jeremiah 48:18. _THAT DOST INHABIT DIBON_] This was anciently a city of the Reubenites, afterwards inhabited by the Moabites, about two leagues north of the river Arnon, and about six to the eas...
SIT IN THIRST - Jeremiah draws a picture of the conquered inhabitants, collected outside the walls, waiting for their captors to march them away to the slave mart. The enemy occupied with plundering t...
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...
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 Jere...
DIBON. Now _Dhiban._ Ruins north of the river Arnon. Compare Jeremiah 48:22....
See introd. summary to the ch....
AND SIT IN THIRST— _Dibon_ was a village in Moab famous for its waters. The prophet foretels that the inhabitants of it should be obliged to seek refuge in the desert, in dry and sandy places. See Isa...
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 t...
Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holds. THOU DAUGHTER - (, "O virgin d...
48:18 drought, (c-10) Lit. 'in thirst.'...
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...
THOU DAUGHTER THAT DOST INHABIT DIBON. — Dibon is mentioned among the cities of Moab in Numbers 21:30; Isaiah 15:2, and as rebuilt by the Gadites in Numbers 33:45. It is prominent in the Moabite Stone...
רְדִ֤י מִ כָּבֹוד֙ _וּ_†_שְׁבִ֣י_† בַ † צָּמָ֔א יֹשֶׁ֖בֶת בַּת ־דִּיבֹ֑ון כִּֽי ־שֹׁדֵ֤ד מֹואָב֙ עָ֣לָה...
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...
_Thirst. Dibon was well supplied with water, Isaias xv. 9._...
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...
Here the Prophet turns to address the city Dibon, which was renowned among that people. The mode of speaking is well known; he calls the people of the city the _daughter of Dibon_; and he calls the da...
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...
THOU DAUGHTER THAT DOST INHABIT DIBON,.... A city in Moab; Isaiah 15:2. The Targum is, "O kingdom of the congregation of Dibon;'' but this was not a kingdom of itself, though a principal city in th...
Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from [thy] glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, [and] he shall destroy thy strong holds. Ver. 18. _And sit in thirs...
_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'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 re...
Of this DIBON we read NUMBERS 21:30. It was a land for cattle, NUMBERS 32:3. Both Dibon, and Aroer, and Ataroth were built by-the children of Gad, to whose lot it fell, NUMBERS 32:34, as also to the R...
Jeremiah 48:18 daughter H1323 inhabiting H3427 (H8802) Dibon H1769 down H3381 (H8798) glory H3519 sit H3427 (H8798) thirst H6772 plunderer H7703 (H8802) Moab H4124 come H5927 (H8804) destroyed H7843 ...
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...
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...
Exodus 17:3; Ezekiel 19:13; Genesis 21:16; Isaiah 15:2; Isaiah 47:1; Isaiah 5:13; Jeremiah 46:18; Jeremiah 46:19; Jeremiah 48:22; Jeremiah
Dibon — Dibon, Aroer, and Ataroh were built by the children of Gad. It should seem the Moabites were not come into the possession of them. In thirst — It was a place well watered, but God threatens sh...