Jeremiah 48:21

And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath, JUDGMENT IS COME UPON THE PLAIN (). Not only the mountainous regions, but also the plain shall be wasted. HOLON - (cf. ). JAHAZAH - where Sihon fought against Israel (; ). MEPHAATH - (; )....

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....

Verse Jeremiah 48:21. _UPON HOLON, C._] All these were cities of the Moabites, but several of them are mentioned in no other place....

HOLON - This place apparently took its name from caverns in its neighborhood....

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;...

AND JUDGMENT IS COME UPON THE PLAIN COUNTRY,.... Of Moab, which was for the most part such, especially that which lay near Arnon; the judgment of God's vengeance, punishment for sin, by the hand of the Chaldeans. The Targum is, "they that execute vengeance are come:'' UPON HOLON; a city of Moab; of which see Joshua 15:51; it had its name perhaps from the sandy ground on which it stood. Grotius takes it to be the Alabana of Ptolemy: AND UPON JAHAZAH: the same with Jahaz, Isaiah 15:4; reckoned by Grotius to be the Jadu of Ptolemy; see Joshua 13:18; AND UPON MEPHAATH; of which see...

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

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, as Israel formerly was to Moab, when Israel was treated as a detected thief (Jeremiah 2:26). Let the Moabites seek refuge like the dove in the inaccessible crannies of some ravine. Jeremiah 48:20 ff. Several of these sites are unknown; Bozrah is not the Edomite city of Jeremiah 49:13....

HOLON. Now probably _Aleiyan_ (not Holon or Hilen in Judah). JAHAZAH... MEPHAATH. Not yet identified. Compare Isaiah 15:4....

The metrical arrangement begun in Jeremiah 48:17 ends in the middle of Jeremiah 48:20. From "tell ye it" onwards to the end of Jeremiah 48:24 is in all probability a later addition. Of the places not already mentioned in the ch. the position of some is quite unknown....