the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Jeremias 48:28
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leave: Jeremiah 48:9, Judges 6:2, 1 Samuel 13:6, Isaiah 2:19, Obadiah 1:3, Obadiah 1:4
like: Jeremiah 49:16, Psalms 55:6, Psalms 55:7, Song of Solomon 2:14
Reciprocal: Leviticus 14:22 - two turtle doves Isaiah 42:11 - let the inhabitants Jeremiah 22:23 - makest Jeremiah 49:8 - dwell
Gill's Notes on the Bible
O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock,.... Signifying hereby that they would not be in safety in their strongest and most fortified cities, which would be besieged by the enemy, and taken; and therefore are advised to leave them, and flee to the rocks and mountains, that if possible they might be safe there:
and be like the dove, [that] maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth; which, for fear of birds of prey, makes her nest in the side of a hole, or cleft of a rock, that she and her young may be safe from them; and which being pursued by the hawk, flies into a hollow rock or cavern, as Homer d observes: but here it intends the place where it makes its nest; which is for the most part in deserts and rocky places, where great numbers of doves resort, and make their nests, as Diodorus Siculus e relates; and especially in the holes and clefts of rocks, to which the allusion is in Song of Solomon 2:14. The Targum is,
"and be as a dove that leaves her dove house, and comes down and dwells in the bottom of a pit,''
or ditch.
d Iliad. 21. v. 495. e Bibliothec. l. 2. p. 92.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Dwell in the rock - See Jeremiah 4:29. The sole chance of escape is refuge in inaccessible fastnesses.
In the sides ... - On the further side “of the mouth of the pit.” The wild rock pigeon invariably selects deep ravines for its nesting and roosting.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jeremiah 48:28. Dwell in the rock — Go to the most inaccessible places in the mountains.
The hole's mouth. — And into the most secret eaves and holes of the earth.
