Isaiæ 49:2

Nova Vulgata

Ideo ecce dies veniunt, dicit Dominus, et auditum faciam super Rabba filiorum Ammon fremitum proelii; et erit in tumulum dissipata, filiaeque eius igni succendentur, et possidebit Israel possessores suos, ait Dominus.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Et posuit os meum quasi gladium acutum, in umbra manus su� protexit me ; et posuit me sicut sagittam electam, in pharetra sua abscondit me.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Ideo dies veniunt, dicit Dominus,
et auditum faciam super Rabbath filiorum Ammon fremitum pr�lii,
et erit in tumultum dissipata,
fili�que ejus igni succendentur,
et possidebit Isra�l possessores suos, ait Dominus.

Bible Verse Review
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that I will: Jeremiah 4:19, Ezekiel 25:4-6, Amos 1:14

Rabbah: Deuteronomy 3:11, Joshua 13:24, Joshua 13:25, Ezekiel 21:20, Rabbath

her daughters: Numbers 21:25, *marg. 2 Samuel 11:1, 2 Samuel 12:27-29, Psalms 48:11, Psalms 97:8, Ezekiel 16:46-55

shall Israel: Jeremiah 49:1, Isaiah 14:1-3, Obadiah 1:19

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 13:16 - an heap Joshua 8:28 - an heap 1 Chronicles 20:1 - Rabbah Isaiah 17:1 - a ruinous Jeremiah 50:12 - mother Ezekiel 25:7 - and will Ezekiel 25:14 - by the hand Ezekiel 26:6 - her daughters

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord,.... Or, "are coming" y; as they did, in a very little time after this prophecy:

that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; the metropolis of the Ammonites; it was their royal city in the times of David, 1 Kings 11:1; called by Polybius z Rabbahamana; and by Ptolemy a Philadelphia, which name it had from Ptolemy Philadelphus, who rebuilt it; this the Lord threatens with the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war, or the noise of warriors, as the Targum; the Chaldean army under Nebuchadnezzar, who, about five years after the destruction of Jerusalem, subdued the Ammonites, as Josephus b relates:

and it shall be a desolate heap; be utterly destroyed; its walls broken down, and houses demolished, and made a heap of rubbish: and

her daughters shall be burnt with fire: Rabbah was the mother city, and the other cities of the Ammonites were her daughters, which are threatened to be destroyed with fire by the enemy; or it may mean the villages round about Rabbah, it being usual in Scripture for villages to be called the daughters of cities; see Ezekiel 16:46; so the Targum here paraphrases it,

"the inhabitants of her villages shall be burnt with fire:''

then shall Israel be heirs unto them that were his heirs, saith the Lord: that is, shall inherit their land again, which the Ammonites pretended to be the lawful heirs of; yea, not only possess their own land, but the land of Ammon too: this was fulfilled not immediately upon the destruction of Ammon, but in part upon the return of the Jews from the Babylonish captivity, when they repossessed their own country; and partly in the times of the Maccabees, when they subdued the Ammonites,

"Afterward he passed over to the children of Ammon, where he found a mighty power, and much people, with Timotheus their captain.'' (1 Maccabees 5:6)

and will more fully in the latter day, when the Jews shall be converted, and return to their own land, and the children of Ammon shall obey them, Isaiah 11:14; so Kimchi interprets it; and other Jewish writers understand it of the days of the Messiah, as Abarbinel observes.

y באים "sunt venientes", Montanus, Schmidt. z Hist. l. 5. p. 414. a Geograph. l. 5. c. 15. b Antiqu. l. 10. c. 9. sect. 7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Rabbah - i. e., the “great city.” See 2 Samuel 12:27 note for a distinction between Rabbah, the citadel, and the town itself, lying below upon the Jabbok.

Daughters - i. e., unwalled villages (and in Jeremiah 49:3).

Shall Israel be heir ... - i. e., “shall be victor over his victors;” compare Micah 1:15.