Jeremiah 46:1--49:39
spoke <01697> [The word.]
This is a general title to the prophecies contained in this and the following chapters, concerning different nations which had less or more connexion with the Jews, either as enemies, neighbours, or allies. They were not delivered at the same time: to some the date is annexed; in others it is left uncertain.
nations <01471> [against.]
Egypt .......... Egypt <04714> [Against Egypt.]
Pharaoh Necho <06549> [Pharaoh-necho.]
[Pharaoh-nechoh.]
[Necho.]
Carchemish <03751> [Carchemish.]
fourth <07243> [in the.]
This is a poetical and ironical call to the Egyptians to muster their forces; and implies that all their courage and efforts would be vain.
Sharpen <04838> [furbish.]
armor <05630> [brigandines.]
soldiers <01368> [and their.]
defeated <03807> [beaten down. Heb. broken in pieces. fled apace. Heb. fled a flight.]
terror <04032> [fear.]
swiftest <07031> [not.]
stumble <03782> [stumble.]
north <06828> [toward.]
rises <05927> [Who.]
Nile <02975> [as a flood.]
rises ................ arise <05927> [riseth.]
rises ................ arise <05927> [I will go.]
Drive furiously <01984> [rage.]
Ethiopia <03568> [Ethiopians. Heb. Cush and Put.]
[Phut.]
[Phut.]
[Lubim.]
Lydia <03866> [Lydians.]
[Ludim.]
[Lud.]
day .............. day <03117> [the day.]
sword <02719> [the sword.]
north <06828> [the north.]
Gilead <01568> [Gilead.]
dear poor people <01330> [O virgin.]
useless <07723> [in vain.]
healing <08585> [thou shalt not be cured. Heb. no cure shall be unto thee.]
hear <08085> [heard.]
cries of distress <06682> [thy cry.]
trip over <03782> [stumbled.]
Nebuchadnezzar <05019> [Cir A.M. 3398. B.C. 606. Nebuchadrezzar.]
Migdol <04024> [Migdol.]
Take your positions <03320> [Stand.]
enemy army <02719> [the sword.]
soldiers <047> [thy.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
many stumble <03782 07235> [made many to fall. Heb. multiplied the faller. one.]
say <0559> [they said.]
Pharaoh <06547> [Pharaoh.]
swear <05002> [saith.]
Tabor <08396> [Tabor.]
Mount Carmel <03760> [Carmel.]
dear <01323> [thou.]
bags <06213 03627> [furnish thyself to go into captivity. Heb. make thee instruments of captivity.]
Memphis <05297> [Noph.]
Noph, or Moph, is the celebrated city of Memphis, as the Chaldee and LXX. render; long the residence of the ancient Egyptian kings, and situated fifteen miles above where the Delta begins, on the western side of the Nile. It was in the neighbourhood of Memphis that the famous pyramids were erected, whose grandeur and beauty still astonish the modern traveller: they are about twenty in number; the largest of which is 481 feet perpendicular height, and the area of its basis is on 480,249 square feet, or something more than eleven acres, being exactly the size of Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. The immense ruins between the northern and southern pyramids, and about fourteen miles from Cairo, still called Memf, Menf, or Menouf, seem to mark the site of this city.
waste <08047> [waste.]
beautiful <03304> [a very.]
attack <0935> [it cometh.]
mercenaries <07916> [her hired.]
pampered well-fed <04770> [like.]
pampered well-fed calves <05695 04770> [fatted bullocks. Heb. bullocks of the stall.]
stand <05975> [they did.]
time <03117> [the day.]
hissing <06963> [voice.]
come <0935> [and come.]
<03772> [cut.]
numerous <07231> [because.]
dear <01323> [daughter.]
put <05414> [she shall.]
Amon <0527> [multitude. or, nourisher. Heb. Amon. No.]
God ...................... gods <0430> [with their.]
kings <04428> [and their.]
trust <0982> [and all.]
hand <05414> [I will.]
later <0310> [and afterward.]
afraid <03372> [fear.]
rescue <03467> [I will save.]
terrified <02865 08252> [and be.]
destroy ............. destroy <06213> [for I am.]
destroy ............. destroy <06213> [make.]
destroy ............. destroy <06213> [but I will not.]
discipline <03256> [correct.]
unpunished <05352> [will I.]
unpunished <05352> [not leave thee wholly unpunished. or, not utterly cut thee off.]
Philistines <06430> [Cir. A.M. 3387. B.C. 617. against.]
Gaza <05804> [Gaza. Heb. Azzah.]
water <04325> [waters.]
north <06828> [out of.]
everything <04393> [all that is therein. Heb. the fulness thereof.]
People <0120> [then the.]
hear <06963> [the noise.]
Fathers <01> [the fathers.]
time <03117> [the day.]
Tyre <06865> [Tyrus.]
help <05826> [every.]
remnant <07611> [the remnant.]
island <0339> [country. Heb. isle.]
Crete <03731> [Caphtor.]
[Caphtorim.]
[Caphthorim.]
shave ... heads <07144> [Baldness.]
Gaza <05804> [Gaza.]
who remain <07611> [the remnant.]
gash <01413> [how.]
sword <02719> [thou sword.]
<03808> [how long.]
Go back .... sheath <0622 08593> [put up thyself. Heb. gather thyself. into.]
rest <08252> [can it. Heb. canst not. the Lord.]
seacoast <03220> [the sea.]
ordered <03259> [hath he.]
Moab <04124> [A.M. cir. 3420. B.C. cir. 584. Moab.]
Nebo <05015> [Nebo.]
<04869> [Misgab. or, The high place.]
praise <08416> [no more.]
Heshbon <02809> [Heshbon.]
<03212> [come.]
<01826> [thou shalt.]
<01826> [cut down. or, brought to silence.]
[Madmenah. pursue thee. Heb. go after thee.]
Cries <06963> [voice.]
Horonaim <02773> [Horonaim.]
Moab <04124> [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.
distress <06810> [her.]
Luhith <03872> [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.
weeping <01065> [continual weeping. Heb. weeping with weeping.]
Run <05127> [Flee.]
be ..... shrub <01961 06176> [be like.]
shrub <06176> [the heath. or, a naked tree.]
trust <0982> [because.]
god Chemosh <03645> [Chemosh.]
priests <03548> [his priests.]
destroyer <07703> [the spoiler.]
town .... town <05892> [and no.]
gravestone <06731> [wings.]
cities <05892> [the cities.]
curse ............. curse <0779> [Cursed.]
lax <07423> [deceitfully. or, negligently.]
lived undisturbed <07599> [hath been.]
settle undisturbed <08252> [he hath.]
poured out <07324> [emptied.]
[thereof.]
<05975> [remained. Heb. stood.]
empty ... out .... empty the towns <06808> [wanderers.]
<07324> [empty.]
disappointed .......... disappointed <0954> [ashamed.]
<01004> [as the.]
say <0559> [How.]
mighty <01368> [We.]
destroyed <07703> [spoiled.]
finest <04005> [his chosen. Heb. the choice of his, etc.]
affirm <05002> [saith.]
<08034> [whose.]
<07138> [near.]
Mourn <05110> [bemoan.]
powerful <05797> [How.]
<01323> [daughter.]
Dibon <01769> [Dibon.]
sit on ....... live <03427> [and sit.]
destroy <07703> [the spoiler.]
live <03427> [inhabitant. Heb. inhabitress. Aroer.]
Question <07592> [ask.]
disgraced <03001> [confounded.]
Arnon <0769> [Arnon.]
plain <04334> [the plain.]
Jahzah <03096> [Jahazah.]
[Jahaza.]
[Jahaz.]
Dibon <01769> [Dibon.]
Beth Diblathaim <01015> [Beth-diblathaim.]
[Almon-diblathaim.]
[Diblath.]
Kiriathaim <07156> [Kiriathaim.]
[Shaveh Kiriathaim.]
[Kirjathaim. Beth-meon.]
[Baal-meon.]
[Beth-baal-meon.]
Kerioth <07152> [Kerioth.]
Bozrah <01224> [Bozrah.]
[Bezer.]
[Bezor.]
might <07161> [horn.]
power <02220> [and his.]
vaunted <07937> [ye him.]
wrath <01431> [for he.]
splashes <05606> [wallow.]
laughingstock <07814> [and he also.]
Israel <03478> [was not.]
<04672> [was he found.]
talked <05110> [skippedst. or, movedst thyself.]
Leave <05800> [leave.]
dove <03123> [like.]
heard <08085> [heard.]
arrogant <01363> [his loftiness.]
know <03045> [know.]
boastings ... prove <06213 0907> [his lies shall not so effect it. or, those on whom he stayeth (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.
weep with sorrow <03213> [will I howl.]
Kir Heres <07025> [Kir-heres.]
[Kar-haraseth.]
[Kir-hareseth.]
grapevines <01612> [vine.]
[Shibmah.]
Jazer ....................... Jazer <03270> [Jazer.]
[Jaazer.]
destroyer <07703> [the spoiler.]
Joy <08057> [joy.]
wine <03196> [caused.]
Cries of anguish <02201> [the cry.]
Elealeh <0500> [Elealeh.]
Jahaz <03096> [Jahaz.]
[Jahazah. Zoar.]
Eglath Shelishiyah <05697 07992> [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 <05249> [Nimrim.]
[Nimrah.]
[Beth-nimrah.]
dried <04923> [desolate. Heb. desolations.]
offerings <05927> [him that offereth.]
heart ..................... heart <03820> [mine heart.]
Kir Heres <07025> [Kir-heres.]
wealth <03502> [the riches.]
heads <07218> [every head.]
cut off <01639> [clipped. Heb. diminished. cuttings.]
<04975> [upon the loins.]
housetops <01406> [upon.]
break <07665> [broken.]
shattered <02865> [How is it.]
turn away <06203> [back. Heb. neck. a derision.]
swoop down <01675> [he shall.]
outspread <06566> [spread.]
<07152> [Kerioth. or, The cities.]
<03820> [as the heart.]
Moab <04124> [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!
nation <05971> [from.]
vaunted <01431> [magnified.]
<05127> [that fleeth.]
time <08141> [the year.]
fire <0784> [a fire.]
burn <0398> [devour.]
war-loving people <01121 07588> [tumultuous ones. Heb. children of noise.]
doomed <0188> [Woe.]
people <05971> [the people.]
captive ......... exile <07628 07633> [captives. Heb. in captivity.]
reverse <07725> [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.
to come <0319> [in the latter.]
Ammonites ......... people of the nation <01121> [A.M. 3421. B.C. 583. Concerning. or, Against.]
Ammonites ......... people of the nation <01121> [Ammonites.]
<04428> [their king. or, Melcom.]
cities <05892> [cities.]
sound <08643> [that I will.]
Rabbah <07237> [Rabbah.]
[Rabbath.]
villages <01323> [her daughters.]
Israel <03478> [shall Israel.]
Wail <03213> [Howl.]
Put on <02296> [gird.]
Run about <07751> [run.]
god Milcom <04428> [their king. or, Melcom.]
[Milcom.]
[Malcham.]
<03212> [shall go.]
brag about <01984> [gloriest.]
great power ... power ... ebbing away <02100 06010> [thy flowing valley. or, they valley floweth away. O backsliding.]
trust <0982> [trusted.]
attack <0935> [Who.]
bring <0935> [I will.]
scattered <05080> [ye shall.]
gather <06908> [none.]
Edom <0123> [Edom.]
wisdom ...................... wisdom <02451> [Is wisdom.]
Teman <08487> [Teman.]
flee <05127> [Flee.]
Turn <06437> [turn back. or, they are turned back. dwell.]
Dedan <01719> [Dedan.]
bring .......... decided <0935> [for.]
grape pickers <01219> [grape-gatherers.]
needed <01767> [till they have enough. Heb. their sufficiency.]
Esau's <06215> [I have made.]
hiding places <04565> [his secret.]
children <02233> [his seed.]
[he is not.]
orphans <03490> [thy fatherless.]
widows <0490> [let thy.]
deserve <04941> [they whose.]
solemnly swear <07650> [I have.]
Bozrah <01224> [Bozrah.]
object of horror <08047> [a desolation.]
heard <08085> [heard.]
messenger <06735> [an ambassador.]
Gather <06908> [Gather.]
terror <08606> [terribleness.]
home <07931> [dwellest.]
nest <07064> [though.]
Edom <0123> [Edom.]
pass by <05674> [every.]
hiss out their scorn <08319> [shall hiss.]
destroyed <04114> [in the.]
<0376> [no man.]
coming up <05927> [he shall come.]
thick undergrowth <01347> [the swelling.]
call ... to account <03259> [who is like.]
call ... to account <03259> [appoint me the time. or, convent me in judgment.]
ruler <07462> [that shepherd.]
what <06098> [the counsel.]
Teman <08487> [Teman.]
little ones ........... land <06810 05116> [Surely.]
The prophet having given the name of the shepherd to the generals of the army, pursues the same metaphor, calling the common soldiers, "the least of the flock;" who shall have strength and courage enough to the defeat the Idumean forces.
land <05116> [make.]
earth <0776> [earth.]
[Red sea. Heb. Weedy sea.]
soar up <05927> [he shall.]
Bozrah <01224> [Bozrah.]
soldiers ....... fearful <03820 01368> [the heart of the.]
Damascus <01834> [Damascus.]
Hamath <02574> [Hamath.]
melt away <04127> [faint-hearted. Heb. melted.]
worry <01674> [sorrow.]
<03220> [on the sea. or, as on the sea.]
anguish <06869> [anguish.]
set <03341> [I will.]
Ben Hadad <01130> [Ben-hadad.]
Kedar ................... Kedar <06938> [Kedar.]
Hazor <02674> [Hazor.]
go <06965> [Arise.]
Lay waste <07703> [spoil.]
tents <0168> [tents.]
curtains <03407> [curtains.]
camels <01581> [camels.]
Terror <04032> [Fear.]
quickly <05110 03966> [get you far off. Heb. flit greatly. dwell.]
Nebuchadnezzar <05019> [for.]
Babylon <07961> [wealthy nations. or, nation that is at ease.]
lives in <03427> [that.]
live <07931> [which dwell.]
camels <01581> [their camels.]
scatter <02219> [I will scatter.]
short .... temples <06285 07112> [in the utmost corners. Heb. cut off into corners, or, that have the corners of their hair polled.]
Hazor <02674> [Hazor.]
Hazor as well as Kedar, with which it is joined, (ver. 28,) was no doubt situated in Arabia, and a place of considerable importance; but it is now no more, and its very name seems to have perished.
place where only ... live <04583> [a dwelling.]
Elam <05867> [Cir. A.M. 3406. B.C. 598. Elam.]
Elam, the Elyma‹s of the Greeks and Romans, was properly a province of the Persian empire, between Media and Susiana; but sometimes the name Elam is used in a larger sense, including Susiana and other provinces, (see Da 8:2,) all of which were subdued by Nebuchadnezzar, and afterwards restored and raised to dignity by Cyrus.
kill <07665> [break.]
archers <07198> [the bow.]
Strabo says that the mountainous part of Elyma‹s chiefly bred archers; and Livy speaks of {Elym‘i sagittarii,} "the Elymean archers."
winds ...... four .............. four winds <0702 07307> [the four winds.]
scatter <02219> [scatter.]
refugees <05080> [the outcasts.]
terrified <02865> [to be.]
enemies <0341> [their enemies.]
send <02719 07971> [I will send the sword.]
to come <0319> [in the.]
reverse <07725> [I will.]
