Jeremiah 49:29

Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side. THEIR TENTS - in which they dwelt, from which they are called Scenites - i:e., tent-dwellers. THEY SHALL TAKE TO THEMSELVES THEIR CURTAINS - namely with which the tents were covered (; ; THEY SHALL TAKE TO THEMSELVES THEIR CURTAINS - namely, with which the tents were covered (; ; ). They shal...

The Prophet, in speaking of tents and curtains, had regard to the way of living adopted by that nation; for the Arabs, we know, dwelt in cabins and tents, as they do at this day, and they were also shepherds. They had no cultivated fields, but led their flocks through the deserts; and they had a great number of camels. This is the reason why the Prophet mentions _tents, curtains, camels, and flocks_, while speaking of the Kedareans; for they dwelt not in a fertile country, they possessed no arable lands, nor had they much other wealth, neither cities nor palaces. The sum of what is said is, that the Kedareans were doomed to destruction, and were therefore exposed as a prey to their enemies. But as this was difficult to be believed, he adds, _They shall cry to them, Terror on every side _By these words the Prophet means, that there would be so much dread, that all would suffer their posse...

28-33 Nebuchadnezzar would make desolation among the people of Kedar, who dwelt in the deserts of Arabia. He who conquered many strong cities, will not leave those unconquered that dwell in tents. He will do this to gratify his own covetousness and ambition; but God orders it for correcting an unthankful people, and for warning a careless world to expect trouble when they seem most safe. They shall flee, get far off, and dwell deep in the deserts; they shall be dispersed. But privacy and obscurity are not always protection and security....

Verse Jeremiah 49:29. _THEIR TENTS AND THEIR FLOCKS_] This description of _property_ shows that they were _Scenite_ or _Nomad Arabs_; persons who dwell in _tents_, and whose principal property was _cattle_, especially _camels_, of the whole of which they were plundered by the Chaldeans....

CURTAINS - The hangings of the tents. FEAR IS ON EVERY SIDE - Magor-missabib (see Jeremiah 6:25 note); a cry, indicating the panic which followed the unexpected onset of the enemy....

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

THEIR TENTS AND THEIR FLOCKS SHALL THEY TAKE AWAY,.... The Kedarenes were a people whose business chiefly lay in feeding flocks, and of which their substance consisted; and they mostly dwelt in tents, which they removed from place to place, for the sake of pasturage for their flocks; hence they were sometimes called Scenites, and sometimes Nomades; see Psalms 120:5; but now both their habitations, such as they were, and their flocks too, wherein lay their riches, would be taken away from them: THEY SHALL TAKE TO THEMSELVES THEIR CURTAINS, AND ALL THEIR VESSELS, AND THEIR CAMELS; their curtains made of skins of beasts, of which their tents were made; or with which they were covered to protect them from the inclemencies of the weather; and all the furniture of them, their household goods; their vessels for domestic use; and utensils for their calling and

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

THE ARABIAN TRIBES. Kedar (Jeremiah 2:10) a branch of the Ishmaelites (Genesis 25:13), is here used generically for Arab tribes E. of Palestine. Hazor, perhaps a collective term meaning settlements, seems to denote Arabs in village communities, as distinct from the nomadic tribes. Yahweh summons the foe (here identified with the Babylonians, though no campaign of Nebuchadrezzar against Arabs is known), and promises that they shall capture the nomads-' tents and camels. The village-dwellers are told to seek a refuge (dwell deep, as in Jeremiah 49:8), and the foe is called (Jeremiah 49:31) to attack this defenceless people, confident

FEAR IS ON EVERY SIDE. Hebrew. _magor missabib._ Compare Jeremiah 6:25; Jeremiah 20:3; Jeremiah 20:10; Jeremiah 46:5.Lamentations 2:22....