Jeremiah 48:21

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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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the plain: Jeremiah 48:8, Ezekiel 25:9, Zephaniah 2:9

Jahazah: Joshua 13:18, Jahaza, Joshua 21:36, Joshua 21:37, Isaiah 15:4, Jahaz

Reciprocal: Joshua 13:16 - General 1 Chronicles 6:78 - Jahzah Jeremiah 48:34 - Jahaz

Cross-References

Genesis 12:5
And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

Genesis 15:14
But I will judge the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will depart with many possessions.

Genesis 26:3
Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.

Genesis 28:15
Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."

Genesis 37:1
Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had resided, the land of Canaan.

Genesis 46:4
I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will surely bring you back. And Joseph's own hands will close your eyes."

Genesis 48:1
Some time later, Joseph was told, "Your father is ill." So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

Genesis 48:2
When Jacob was told, "Your son Joseph has come to you," Israel rallied his strength and sat up in bed.

Genesis 48:3
Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there He blessed me

Genesis 48:4
and told me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you; I will make you a multitude of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And judgment is come upon the plain country,.... Of Moab, which was for the most part such, especially that which lay near Arnon; the judgment of God's vengeance, punishment for sin, by the hand of the Chaldeans. The Targum is,

"they that execute vengeance are come:''

upon Holon; a city of Moab; of which see Joshua 15:51; it had its name perhaps from the sandy ground on which it stood. Grotius takes it to be the Alabana of Ptolemy:

and upon Jahazah: the same with Jahaz, Joshua 15:51- :; reckoned by Grotius to be the Jadu of Ptolemy; see Joshua 13:18;

and upon Mephaath; of which see Joshua 13:18; said by Grotius to be the Maipha of Ptolemy.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Holon - This place apparently took its name from caverns in its neighborhood.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 48:21. Upon Holon, &c. — All these were cities of the Moabites, but several of them are mentioned in no other place.