Jer 49:1 | HCSB | STEP | About the Ammonites , this is what the Lord says : Does Israel have no sons ? Is he without an heir ? Why then has Milcom dispossessed Gad and his people settled in their cities ?

Jeremiah 49:1

1 About the Ammonites, ^a this is what the Lord says:

Does Israel have no sons?
Is he without an heir?
Why then has ^{▼▼Milcom: An Ammonite god who was the equivalent of Baal, the Canaanite storm god}Milcom ^{▼▼LXX, Syr, Vg; MT reads Malkam
,} ^{▼▼= Molech} dispossessed Gad ^e
and his people settled in their cities?