Jeremiah 49:1

Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities? The event of the prophecy as to Ammon preceded that as to Moab (note ); and in the destruction of Ammon is subjoined to the deposition of Zedekiah. HATH ISRAEL ... NO HEIR? - namely to occupy the land of Gad, after itself has been carried away captive by Shalmaneser. Ammon, like Moab, descended from Lot, lay north of Moab, from which it was separated by the river Arnon, and east of Reuben and Gad (), on the same side of Jordan. It seized on Gad when Israel was carried captive. Judah was by the right of kindred the h...

We have said that the Ammonites were not only contiguous to the Moabites, but had also derived their origin from Lot, and were thus connected with them by blood. Their origin was indeed base and shameful, for they were, as it is well known, the offspring of incest. There was, however, the bond of fraternity between them, because both nations had the same father. God had spared them when he brought up his people from Egypt; for in remembrance of the holy man Lot, he would have both peoples to remain uninjured. But ingratitude doubled their crime, for these impious men ceased not in various ways to harass the children of Abraham.: For this reason, therefore, does Jeremiah now prophesy against them. And we see here, again, the object of this prophecy and the design of the Holy Spirit in announcing it, even that the Israelites might know that they were not so completely cast away by God, but...

CHAPTER XLIX _This chapter is a collection of prophecies relating to several_ _nations in the neighbourhood of Judea; and, like those_ _preceding, are supposed to have been fulfilled by the ministry_ _of Nebuchadnezzar during the thirteen years' siege of Tyre. The_ _chapter opens with a prophecy concerning the Ammonites, whose_ _chief city, Rabbah, shall be destroyed; and Malcom, the supreme_ _divinity of the people, with all his retinue of priests and_ _officers, carried into captivity_, 1-5. _Promise that the Ammonites shall be restored to their liberty_, 6....

HATH ISRAEL NO SONS? - i. e., the Ammonites in seizing Gilead have acted as if the country had no rightful owner. The sons of Israel were to return from captivity, and the land was their hereditary property. THEIR KING - Milcom (and in Jeremiah 49:3), see the margin. The Ammonite god stands for the Ammonites just as Chemosh Jeremiah 48:7 is the equivalent of the Moabites. INHERIT - i. e., take possession of....

EXPOSITION On Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar and Hazer, and Elam. JEREMIAH 49:1 The violence of the Ammonites shall be severely punished. JEREMIAH 49:1 HATH ISRAEL NO SONS! The violent seizure, perpetrated before his eyes, of parts of the sacred territory, forces the indignant question from the prophet, "How can these things be?" It was so on a former occasion (see Jeremiah 2:14), and it is so again, now that the Ammonites are occupying the land of the Gadites. True, the present generation has lost its property, but the next is the heir to all its rights and privileges. THEIR KING; rather, _their King—_the

CONCERNING THE AMMONITES, THUS SAITH THE LORD,.... Or, "to the Ammonites" u; or, "against" them w; it will bear to be rendered either way, and all is true; for what is said by the Lord, as follows, is concerning them, their sins, and their punishment, and is directed to them, and is a threatening against them: HATH ISRAEL NO SONS? HATH HE NO HEIR? certainly he has, and who ought to possess the land; this is to be understood not of the ten tribes, sometimes called Israel, as distinct from the other two; for these had been long ago carried captive, and left no heirs of their tribes; but of all Israel, including the tribes of Judah and Benjamin; who, though their brethren of the ten tribes were carried captive, and left no children to inherit, yet, being next in blood, were the lawful heirs of their lands and possessions: WHY [THEN] DOTH THEIR KING INHERIT GAD? that part of the land of Is...

CHAPTER 49 Concerning Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar, and Elam _ 1. Concerning the Ammonites (Jeremiah 49:1) _ 2. Concerning Edom (Jeremiah 49:7) 3. Concerning Damascus (Jeremiah 49:23) 4. Concerning Kedar and Hazor (Jeremiah 49:28) 5. Against Elam (Jeremiah 49:34) Ammon was the younger brother of Moab, and, like the Moabites, the Ammonites were a wicked people, though they had no cities like Moab, but were restless wanderers; they were also the enemies of Israel. The predic

AMMON. The Ammonite territory lay eastward of part of that assigned to Gad, between Heshbon and the river Jabbok; the Ammonites appear to have occupied the territory of Gad after the deportation of its inhabitants in 734 (2 Kings 15:29). Why has Milcom seized the land of Gad as his inheritance (1 _mg._ 2)_ ?_ As a penalty, there shall be war against Rabbah (the chief city of Ammon, at the upper sources of the Jabbok), and it shall become a desolate mound, its dependent cities (daughters, Numbers 21:25) being burnt. Let there be mourning for the coming exile of the Ammonites (Jeremiah 49:3). Rabbah's pride in her site and in her wealth is rebuked ...

THE FORTY-FIFTH PROPHECY OF JEREMIAH (see book comments for Jeremiah). Concerning, &c. Supply the Ellipsis, from Jeremiah 47:1. AMMONITES. sons of Ammon, north of Moab. When the tribes east of Jordan were carried away by Tiglath-pileser (2 Kings 15:29), Ammon supplanted Gad. This is the sin dealt with here. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4....

_Hath Israel no sons_?] The style is quite that of Jeremiah (e.g. Jeremiah 2:14). _Malcam_ mg. (less well), _their king_; and so in Jeremiah 49:3. He was the god of Ammon. See 1 Kings 11:5. The word should be written as LXX, Syr., Vulg. _Milcom_(and so in Jeremiah 49:3). _possess_ better, as mg. _inherit_; so in Jeremiah 49:3....