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Filipino Cebuano Bible
Jeremias 48:18
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
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
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.
