Jeremias 48:1

Filipino Cebuano Bible

1 Mahitungod sa Moab. Mao kini ang giingon ni Jehova sa mga panon, ang Dios sa Israel: alaut ang Nebo! kay gilaglag kini; ang Chiryataim gipakaulawan, kini naagaw: ang Misgab gipakaulawan ug nagun-ob.

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Moab: Jeremiah 9:26, Jeremiah 25:21, Jeremiah 27:3, Genesis 19:37, Numbers 24:17, 2 Chronicles 20:10, Isaiah 15:1 - Isaiah 16:14, Isaiah 25:10, Isaiah 27:3, Ezekiel 25:8-11, Amos 2:1, Amos 2:2, Zephaniah 2:8-11

Nebo: Jeremiah 48:22, Jeremiah 48:23, Numbers 32:3, Numbers 32:37, Numbers 32:38, Numbers 33:47, Isaiah 15:2

Misgab: or, The high place

Reciprocal: Genesis 14:5 - Shaveh Kiriathaim Ezra 2:29 - Nebo Nehemiah 13:1 - the Ammonite Isaiah 46:1 - Bel Jeremiah 12:14 - I will Jeremiah 48:20 - confounded Jeremiah 49:1 - Concerning Ezekiel 25:11 - upon Zephaniah 2:9 - Surely

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Against Moab thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,.... The prophecy concerning Moab is introduced with these epithets of God, partly to observe that the God of Israel was the only true God, in opposition to the gods of Moab, and other nations; and partly to point out his omnipotence, being able to perform what he here predicts and threatens; as also to suggest, that for the enmity of the Moabites to his people Israel, and their contempt of them, which is taken notice of in this chapter, and the ill treatment of them, the Lord would now take vengeance on them. Some render it, "concerning Moab" z; because every thing that is here said is not against it; the chapter concludes in favour of it; though the far greater part, and ever, all but the last verse, is against it. This prophecy, according to Josephus a, had its fulfilment about five years after the destruction of Jerusalem;

woe unto Nebo, for it is spoiled; its walls broken down; its houses demolished; its inhabitants destroyed, and plundered of their riches; this, in prophetic language, is represented as done, because of the certainty of it. Of this city :-; It is thought to be an oracular one, where was a temple of their idol; and from whence their priests gave out oracles, promising peace, and prosperity and safety, to Moab; and therefore the desolation of that is first prophesied of, to show that no dependence was to be had on those lying oracles;

Kirjathaim is confounded [and] taken; a city in the tribe of Reuben, which afterwards came into the hands of the Moabites, Joshua 13:19. The word is of the dual form; and it might be a double city, like Jerusalem, consisting of a lower and upper city; or it might be divided by a river; or, as Kimchi and Ben Melech think, it was so called because it had two towers in it. It seems to be the same with Kir of Moab, Kirharesh, and Kirhareseth, Isaiah 15:1; when it was taken by the Chaldeans, the inhabitants were confounded, as having looked upon the place, and boasted of it, as impregnable;

Misgab is confounded and dismayed; so called from its being built on a high place, and well fortified; though some think that this is not the proper name of a place; but only signifies a high and fortified place both by nature and art; a place of refuge, where persons thought themselves safe; and so the Targum renders it,

"the house of their confidence;''

this, when besieged and taken by the Babylonians, threw the inhabitants into the utmost consternation and confusion. Some take it to be the same with Bamoth, a name of much the same signification, Joshua 13:17; see Isaiah 15:2.

z למואב "ad Moab", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus; "de Moabo", Vatablus, Cocceius. a Antiqu. l. 10. c. 9. sect. 7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Against Moab - Concerning Moab.

Is confounded - Is brought to shame.

Misgab - The high fort; some special fortress, probably Kir-haraseth 2 Kings 3:25.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XLVIII

The following prophecy concerning the Moabites is supposed to

have had its accomplishment during the long siege of Tyre in

the reign of Nebuchadnezzar. The whole of this chapter is

poetry of the first order. The distress of the cities of Moab,

with which it opens, is finely described. The cries of one

ruined city resound to those of another, 1-3.

The doleful helpless cry of the children is heard, 4;

the highways, on either hand, resound with the voice of

weeping, 5;

and the few that remain resemble a blasted tree in the wide

howling waste, 6.

Chemosh, the chief god of the Moabites, and the capital figure

in the triumph, is represented as carried off in chains, with

all his trumpery of priests and officers, 7.

The desolation of the country shall be so general and sudden

that, by a strong figure, it is intimated that there shall be

no possibility of escape, except it be in the speediest flight,

8, 9.

And some idea may be formed of the dreadful wickedness of this

people from the consideration that the prophet, under the

immediate inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces a curse on

those who do the work of the Lord negligently, in not

proceeding to their utter extermination, 10.

The subject is then diversified by an elegant and

well-supported comparison, importing that the Moabites

increased in insolence and pride in proportion to the duration

of their prosperity, 11;

but this prosperity is declared to be nearly at an end; the

destroyer is already commissioned against Moab, and his

neighbours called to sing the usual lamentation at his funeral,

13-18.

The prophet then represents some of the women of Aroer and

Ammon, (the extreme borders of Moab,) standing in the highways,

and asking the fugitives of Moab, What intelligence? They

inform him of the complete discomfiture of Moab, 19-24,

and of the total annihilation of its political existence, 25.

The Divine judgments about to fall upon Moab are farther

represented under the expressive metaphor of a cup of

intoxicating liquor, by which he should become an object of

derision because of his intolerable pride, his magnifying

himself against Jehovah, and his great contempt for the

children of Israel in the day of their calamity, 26, 27.

The prophet then points out the great distress of Moab by a

variety of striking figures, viz., by the failure of the

customary rejoicings at the end of harvest, by the mournful

sort of music used at funerals, by the signs which were

expressive among the ancients of deep mourning, as shaving the

head, clipping the beard, cutting the flesh, and wearing

sackcloth; and by the methods of catching wild beasts in toils,

and by the terror and pitfall, 28-46.

In the close of the chapter it is intimated that a remnant

shall be preserved from this general calamity whose descendants

shall be prosperous in the latter days, 47.

NOTES ON CHAP. XLVIII

Verse Jeremiah 48:1. Against Moab — This was delivered some time after the destruction of Jerusalem. The Moabites were in the neighbourhood of the Ammonites, and whatever evils fell on the one would naturally involve the other. See Isaiah 15:1-9 and Isaiah 16:1-14 on this same subject.

Wo unto Nebo! for it is spoiled — This was a city in the tribe of Reuben, afterwards possessed by the Moabites. It probably had its name from Nebo, one of the principal idols of the Moabites.

Kiriathaim — Another city of the Moabites.

Misgab is confounded — There is no place of this name known, and therefore several learned men translate המשגב hammisgab, literally, The high tower, or fortress, which may apply to Kiriathaim, or any other high and well-fortified place.