Jeremiah 48:22

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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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Dibon: Jeremiah 48:1, Jeremiah 48:18, Numbers 32:34

Bethdiblathaim: Numbers 33:46, Almon-diblathaim, Ezekiel 6:14, Diblath

Reciprocal: Numbers 21:30 - Dibon Joshua 13:9 - all the plain Ezra 2:29 - Nebo Isaiah 15:2 - is gone

Cross-References

Genesis 15:16
In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete."

Genesis 33:19
And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of silver.

Genesis 34:28
They took their flocks and herds and donkeys, and everything else in the city or in the field.

Genesis 48:14
But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger; and crossing his hands, he put his left on Manasseh's head, although Manasseh was the firstborn.

Genesis 48:18
"Not so, my father!" Joseph said. "This one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head."

Deuteronomy 21:17
Instead, he must acknowledge the firstborn, the son of his unloved wife, by giving him a double portion of all that he has. For that son is the firstfruits of his father's strength; the right of the firstborn belongs to him.

Joshua 24:32
Also, the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of silver. So it became an inheritance for Joseph's descendants.

Judges 11:23
Now since the LORD, the God of Israel, has driven out the Amorites from before His people Israel, should you now possess it?

1 Chronicles 5:2
And though Judah prevailed over his brothers and a ruler came from him, the birthright belonged to Joseph.

Ezekiel 47:13
This is what the Lord GOD says: 'These are the boundaries by which you are to divide the land as an inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel; Joseph shall receive two portions.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And upon Dibon,.... Whose destruction by this time was come upon it, as suggested, Jeremiah 48:18;

and upon Nebo: of which see Jeremiah 48:1;

and upon Bethdiblathaim: the same with Almondiblathaim in

Numbers 33:46 and Diblath in Ezekiel 6:14.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Beth-diblathaim - i. e., “the house of the two cakes of figs,” perhaps so called from two hills in its neighborhood. Hosea 1:3 note.