Jeremiah 48:6

Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness. FLEE, SAVE YOUR LIVES. They exhort one another to flee. BE LIKE THE HEATH - or the juniper (see note, ). Maurer translates, 'be like one naked in the wilderness.' But the sense is, Live in the wilderness like heath, or juniper; do not 'trust in' walls (). (Grotius) (Compare Matthew 24:16.)...

Then he adds, _Flee, save_: this is the crying of distress; for miserable men, as the case is in extreme evils, mutually exhort one another, _Flee, save your lives _He then compares them to a tamarisk. The word ערוער,_oruor_, designates a country, as it is probable, and there were also two cities of this name. However, ערער, _oror_, is a tamarisk, as we have already seen in Jeremiah 17:6. Some render it, “_a _tower;” and the words of Isaiah in Isaiah 17:2, are perverted by some to maintain another meaning; for they think that ערוער,_oruor_, means the cot of shepherds in the desert; but I prefer the opinion of those who render it “tamarisk,” or juniper, though the Prophet seems to me to allude to the city Aroer, or to a region of t

Verse Jeremiah 48:6. _FLEE, SAVE YOUR LIVES_] The enemy is in full pursuit of you. _BE LIKE THE HEATH_] כערוער _caaroer_, "like Aroer;" which some take for a _city_, others for a _blasted_ or _withered tree_. It is supposed that a place of this name lay towards the north, in the land of the Ammonites, on a branch of the river Jabbok; surrounded by _deserts_. Save yourselves by getting into the wilderness, where the pursuing foe will scarcely think it worth his while to follow you, as the wilderness itself must soon destroy you....

LIKE THE HEATH - Or, Like a destitute man. See the marginal reference note....

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;...

FLEE, SAVE YOUR LIVES,.... These are either the words of the Moabites, their cry of destruction mentioned in the latter part of Jeremiah 48:5; who, seeing nothing but ruin before their eyes, advise one another to flee in all haste, and save their lives if possible, since nothing else could be saved: or else they are the words of the prophet, giving counsel to the Moabites to betake themselves to flight for the safety of their lives, these being in great danger; so Abarbinel; with whom others agree, only think they are spoken ironically; suggesting, that when they had endeavoured by flight to save their lives, it would be to no purpose; they should not escape the hands of their enemies; which seems to be the truest sense: AND BE LIKE THE HEATH IN THE WILDERNESS; which is called "erice", or "ling", which grows in waste places. Kimchi and Menachem in Jarchi int

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

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. Smith's map, though some of his identifications are disputable; others such as Misgah (Jeremiah 48:1) are quite unknown. Much of this chapter is almost certainly later than Jeremiah, as it incorporates parts of Isaiah 15 f. (note _mgg.),_ an elegy apparently of the fifth century. JEREMIAH 48:1. The spoiling of the cities of Moab, and the end of her glory (praise, Jeremiah 48:2), are declared. The lamentation of the Moabites is described ...

LIVES. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. THE HEATH. naked trees. Compare Jeremiah 17:6....

_the heath_ See on Jeremiah 17:6. The LXX read somewhat differently from MT., rendering _wild ass_(as shy and difficult to capture). This is probably right. Cp. Job 39:5....