Jer 48 | TSK | STEP | The judgment of Moab, for their pride; for their security; for their carnal confidence; and for their contempt of God and his people. The restoration of Moab. A.M. cir. 3420. B.C. cir. 584. Moab. Nebo. Misgab. or, The high place.

Moab.This prophecy against Moab, as well as the following ones concerning Ammon, Edom, and the neighbouring countries, seem to have been fulfilled during the long siege of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar. Josephus places these events five years after the destruction of Jerusalem.

Nu 21:27-30

her.

Es 8:11; Ps 137:9

Luhith.Luhith is placed by Eusebius between Areopolis, or Ar, and Zoar. (See ver. 34.) It was evidently situated upon a height; as was also Horonaim, which was probably not far from Luhith.

Isa 15:5

continual weeping. Heb. weeping with weeping.

Flee.

51:6; Ge 19:17; Ps 11:1; Pr 6:4,5; Mt 24:16-18; Lu 3:7; 17:31-33

Heb 6:18

be like.

17:6; Job 30:3-7

the heath. or, a naked tree.

because.

9:23; 13:25; Ps 40:4; 49:6,7; 52:7; 62:8-10; Isa 59:4-6; Eze 28:2-5

Ho 10:13; 1Ti 6:17; Re 18:7

Chemosh.

13,46; 43:12; Nu 21:29; Jud 11:24; 1Ki 11:7,33; Isa 46:1,2

his priests.

49:3

the spoiler.

18; 6:26; 15:8; 25:9; 51:56

and no.

20-25; Eze 25:9

wings.

28; Ps 11:1; 55:6; Isa 16:2; Re 12:14

the cities.

46:19; Zep 2:9

Cursed.

50:25; Nu 31:14-18; Jud 5:23; 1Sa 15:3,9,13-35; 1Ki 20:42

deceitfully. or, negligently.

hath been.

Ps 55:19; 73:4-8; 123:4; Pr 1:32; *marg:

Zec 1:15

he hath.

Isa 25:6; Zep 1:12

emptied.

51:34; Isa 24:3; Na 2:2,10

thereof.

29; Isa 16:6; Eze 16:49,50

remained. Heb. stood.

wanderers.

8,15; 25:9; Isa 16:2; Eze 25:9,10

empty.

11,38; 14:3; 19:10; 25:34; Ps 2:9; Isa 30:14; Na 2:2

ashamed.

7,39,46; Jud 11:24; 1Sa 5:3-7; 1Ki 11:7; 18:26-29,40; Isa 2:20

Isa 16:12; 45:16,20; 46:1,2

as the.

1Ki 12:28,29; Ho 8:5,6; 10:5,6,14,15; Am 5:5,6

How.

8:8; Ps 11:1; Isa 36:4,5

We.

9:23; 49:16; Ps 33:16; Ec 9:11; Isa 10:13,16; 16:6; Eze 30:6

Zep 2:10

spoiled.

8,9-25

his chosen. Heb. the choice of his, etc.

Isa 40:30,31

gone.

4; 50:27; 51:40; Isa 34:2-8

saith.

46:18; 51:57; Ps 24:8-10; 47:2; Da 4:37; Zec 14:9; Mal 1:14

Re 19:16

whose.

Jas 5:4

near.

1:12; De 32:35; Isa 13:22; 16:13,14; Eze 12:23,28; 2Pe 2:3

bemoan.

31-33; 9:17-20; Isa 16:8; Re 18:14-20

How.

39; Isa 9:4; 10:5; 14:4,5; Eze 19:11-14; Zec 11:10-14

daughter.

46:18,19; Isa 47:1

Dibon.

22; Nu 21:30; 32:3; Jos 13:17; Isa 15:2

and sit.

Ge 21:16; Ex 17:3; Jud 15:18; Isa 5:13; Eze 19:13

the spoiler.

inhabitant. Heb. inhabitress. Aroer.

Nu 32:34; De 2:36; 2Sa 24:5; 1Ch 5:8

ask.

1Sa 4:13,14,16; 2Sa 1:3,4; 18:24-32

confounded.

1-5; Isa 15:1-5,8; 16:7-11

Arnon.

Nu 21:13,14,26-28; De 2:36; Jos 13:9; Jud 11:18; Isa 16:2

the plain.

8; Eze 25:9; Zep 2:9

Jahazah.

Jos 13:18

Jahaza.

Jos 21:36,37; Isa 15:4

Jahaz.

Dibon.

1,18; Nu 32:34

Beth-diblathaim.

Nu 33:46

Almon-diblathaim.

Eze 6:14

Diblath.

Kiriathaim.

1; Ge 14:5

Shaveh Kiriathaim.

Jos 13:19

Kirjathaim. Beth-meon.

Nu 32:38

Baal-meon.

Jos 13:17

Beth-baal-meon.

Kerioth.

Bozrah.

Bezer.

Bezor.

horn.

Ps 75:10; La 2:3; Da 7:8; 8:7-9,21; Zec 1:19-21

and his.

Nu 32:37; Job 22:9; Ps 10:15; 37:17; Eze 30:21-25

ye him.

13:13,14; 25:15-17,27-29; 51:7,39,57; Ps 60:3; 75:8; Isa 29:9

Isa 51:17; 63:6; La 3:15; 4:21; Eze 23:31-34; Na 3:11; Re 16:19

for he.

42; Ex 5:2; 9:17; Job 9:4; Isa 10:15; Eze 35:12,13; Da 5:23

Da 8:11,12; 11:36; Zep 2:8-10; 2Th 2:4

wallow.

Isa 19:14; 29:9; Hab 2:16

and he also.

39; Ps 2:4; 59:8; La 1:21; Eze 23:32

was not.

Ps 44:13; 79:4; Pr 24:17,18; La 2:15-17; Eze 25:8; 26:2,3; 35:15

Eze 36:2,4; Ob 1:12,13; Mic 7:8-10; Zep 2:8,10; Mt 7:2

was he found.

2:26; Mt 26:55; 27:38

skippedst. or, movedst thyself.

leave.

9; Jud 6:2; 1Sa 13:6; Isa 2:19; Ob 1:3,4

like.

49:16; Ps 55:6,7; So 2:14

heard.

Pr 8:13; Isa 16:6; Zep 2:8-15

his loftiness.

Job 40:10-12; Ps 138:6; Pr 18:12; 30:13; Isa 2:11,12; Da 4:37

Lu 14:11; Jas 4:6

know.

Isa 16:6; 37:28,29

his lies shall not so effect it. or, those on whom hestayeth (Heb. his bars) do not right. {Baddim,} as Lowth observes, sometimes means those who pretend to the art of divination. Though the soothsayers of Moab, upon whose skill she relies, promise him success, yet in the event it will appear there was no truth in what they said.

50:36; Job 9:12,13; Ps 33:10; Pr 21:30

will I howl.

Isa 15:5; 16:7-11

Kir-heres.

36; 2Ki 3:25

Kar-haraseth.

Isa 16:7

Kir-hareseth.

vine.

Nu 32:38

Shibmah.

Jos 13:19; Isa 16:8,9

Jazer.

Nu 21:32

Jaazer.

Nu 32:1,35; Jos 21:39

the spoiler.

8,15,18; 40:10

joy.

25:9,10; Isa 9:3; 16:9; 24:7-12; 32:9-14; Joe 1:12,16; Re 18:22,23

caused.

Isa 5:10; 7:23; 16:10; Joe 1:5,12,13; Hag 2:16

the cry.

2; Isa 15:4-6

Elealeh.

Nu 32:37

Jahaz.

Jahazah. Zoar.

3,5; De 34:3; Isa 15:5

as an heifer of.As a young cow, when deprived of her first calf; which runs about from place to place, filling the air with loud and repeated lowings, expressive of the deepest distress.

Nimrim.

Nu 32:3

Nimrah.

Nu 32:36

Beth-nimrah.

Isa 15:6

desolate. Heb. desolations.

him that offereth.

7; Nu 22:40,41; 28:14,28-30; Isa 15:2; 16:12

mine heart.

4:19; Isa 15:5; 16:11; 63:15

Kir-heres.

the riches.

17:11; Pr 11:4; 13:22; 18:11; Ec 5:13,14; Isa 15:7; Lu 12:20,21

Jas 5:2,3

every head.

16:6; 41:5; 47:5; Isa 3:24; 15:2,3; Eze 7:18; 27:31; Am 8:10

Mic 1:16

clipped. Heb. diminished. cuttings.

Le 19:28; 1Ki 18:28; Mr 5:5

upon the loins.

Ge 37:29,34; 1Ki 21:27; 2Ki 6:30; Isa 20:2; 37:1; Re 11:3

upon.

Isa 15:3; 22:1

broken.

22:28; 25:34; Ps 2:9; Isa 30:14; Ho 8:8; Ro 9:21,22; 2Ti 2:20,21

Re 2:27

How is it.

17; La 1:1; 2:1; 4:1; Re 18:9,10,15,16

back. Heb. neck. a derision.

26,27; Isa 20:4-6; Eze 26:16-18

he shall.

4:13; De 28:49; La 4:19; Eze 17:3; Da 7:4; Ho 8:1

spread.

49:22; Isa 8:8

Kerioth. or, The cities.

as the heart.

4:31; 6:24; 30:6; 49:22,24; 50:43; 51:30; Isa 13:8; 21:3; 26:17,18

Mic 4:9,10; 1Th 5:3

Moab.Moab has long since ceased to be a nation; while the Jews, agreeably to the Divine promise, (ch. 46:28,) though successively subdued and oppressed by the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Syro-Macedonians, and Romans, (which have also all passed away, and are no more,) and dispersed over the face of the earth, subsist to this day as a distinct people from all the nations of the world!

from.

2; 30:11; Es 3:8-13; Ps 83:4-8; Isa 7:8; Mt 7:2

magnified.

26-30; Pr 16:18; Isa 37:23; Da 11:36; 2Th 2:4; Re 13:6

De 32:23-25; Ps 11:6; Isa 24:17,18; La 3:47

that fleeth.

16:16; 1Ki 19:17; 20:30; Isa 37:36-38; Am 2:14,15; 5:19; 9:1-4

the year.

8:12; 10:15; 11:23; 23:12; 46:21; 51:18; Isa 10:3; Ho 9:7; Mic 7:4

a fire.

Nu 21:28; Am 2:2

devour.

Nu 24:17; Zec 10:4; Mt 21:42

tumultuous ones. Heb. children of noise.

Woe.

Nu 21:29

the people.

7,13; Jud 11:24; 1Ki 11:7; 2Ki 23:13

captives. Heb. in captivity.

Yet will I bring.Many of the Moabites were afterwards restored to their country by Cyrus, as we learn from Josephus; but they never were restored to their national consequence; and perhaps their restoration in the latter days refers to the conversion of their scattered remnants to the gospel.

46:26; 49:6,39; Isa 18:7; 19:18-23; 23:18; Eze 16:53-55

in the latter.

23:20; 30:24; Nu 24:14; De 4:30; 31:29; Job 19:25; Eze 38:8; Da 2:28

Da 10:14; Ho 3:5