Jeremias 22:20

Go up to Lebanon. — The great mountain-ranges — Lebanon and Bashan (Salmos 68:15) — running from north to south, that overlooked the route of the Babylonians, are invoked by the prophet, as those of Gilboa had been by David (2 Samuel 1:21), as witnesses of the misery that was coming on the land and people. Even here, as in Jeremias 22:23, there is probably still the same reference as before to the cedar-palaces of Jerusalem. The people are called from the counterfeit “forests of Lebanon” to the height of the real mountains, and bidden to look forth from thence.

Cry from the passages. — It is better to take the word Abarim as a proper name. As in Números 27:12; Números 33:47; Deuteronômio 32:49, it was part of the range of Nebo, south of Gilead and Bashan, and coming therefore naturally after the last of those two mountains.

All thy lovers. — The word points, as in the corresponding language of Ezequiel 23:5; Ezequiel 23:9, to the Egyptians and other nations with whom Judah had made alliances. The destruction reached its climax in the overthrow of Pharaoh-nechoh’s army by Nebuchadnezzar at Carchemish (Jeremias 46:2).