Jeremiah 48:18

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Contextual Overview

¹⁴How can you say, 'We are warriors, mighty men ready for battle'? ¹⁵Moab has been destroyed and its towns invaded; the best of its young men have gone down in the slaughter, declares the King whose name is the LORD of Hosts. ¹⁶Moab's calamity is at hand, and his affliction is rushing swiftly. ¹⁷Mourn for him, all you who surround him, everyone who knows his name; tell how the mighty scepter is shattered-the glorious staff! ¹⁸Come down from your glory; sit on parched ground, O daughter dwelling in Dibon, for the destroyer of Moab has come against you; he has destroyed your fortresses.¹⁹Stand by the road and watch, O resident of Aroer! Ask the man fleeing or the woman escaping, 'What has happened?' ²⁰Moab is put to shame, for it has been shattered. Wail and cry out! Declare by the Arnon that Moab is destroyed. ²¹Judgment has come upon the high plain-upon Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath, ²²upon Dibon, Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim, ²³upon Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, Beth-meon,

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daughter: Jeremiah 46:18, Jeremiah 46:19, Isaiah 47:1

Dibon: Jeremiah 48:22, Numbers 21:30, Numbers 32:3, Joshua 13:17, Isaiah 15:2

and sit: Genesis 21:16, Exodus 17:3, Judges 15:18, Isaiah 5:13, Ezekiel 19:13

the spoiler: Jeremiah 48:8

Reciprocal: Numbers 33:46 - Dibongad Joshua 6:21 - utterly Joshua 13:9 - all the plain Isaiah 16:4 - for Jeremiah 48:32 - the spoiler Daniel 5:20 - deposed Amos 8:13 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 19:18
But Lot replied, "No, my lords, please!

Genesis 27:15
And Rebekah took the finest clothes in the house that belonged to her older son Esau, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.

Genesis 29:26
Laban replied, "It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.

Genesis 43:33
They were seated before him in order by age, from the firstborn to the youngest, and the men looked at each other in astonishment.

Genesis 49:3
Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power.

Exodus 10:11
No, only the men may go and worship the LORD, since that is what you have been requesting." And Moses and Aaron were driven from Pharaoh's presence.

Matthew 25:9
'No,' said the wise ones, 'or there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.'

Acts 10:14
"No, Lord!" Peter answered. "I have never eaten anything impure or unclean."

Acts 11:8
'No, Lord,' I said, 'for nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon,.... A city in Moab;

:-. The Targum is,

"O kingdom of the congregation of Dibon;''

but this was not a kingdom of itself, though a principal city in the kingdom of Moab:

come down from [thy] glory, and sit in thirst; in a dry and thirsty land; in want of all the necessaries of life; in captivity; who before abounded with all good things, inhabiting a well watered and fruitful soil; see Isaiah 15:9; but now called to quit all their former glory and happiness, their fulness and felicity, and submit to the greatest straits and difficulties:

for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, [and] he shall destroy thy strong holds; the king of Babylon and his army, who spoiled the other cities of Moab; he should come against this also, and take it, and demolish its fortifications, by reason of which it thought itself secure; but these should not be able to protect it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Sit in thirst - Jeremiah draws a picture of the conquered inhabitants, collected outside the walls, waiting for their captors to march them away to the slave mart. The enemy occupied with plundering the houses of Dibon thinks little of the hunger and thirst of his prisoners.

Strong holds - The remains of the fortifications of Dibon are still visible.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 48:18. That dost inhabit Dibon — This was anciently a city of the Reubenites, afterwards inhabited by the Moabites, about two leagues north of the river Arnon, and about six to the east of the Dead Sea.-Dahler.