Jeremiah 49:2, Jeremiah 49:3 ESV

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 49:2

behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. Rabbah. Now 'Amman, on the highlands of Gilead. A large Roman city was built there four centuries later, called "Philadelphia". Its ruins yet remain. heap = tel. daughters: i.e. villages, or smaller dependent towns. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 49:2

Jeremiah 49:2. Rabbah of the Ammonites— A capital city of that country. Her daughters mean the smaller cities or villages. Then shall Israel be heir, &c.— This is understood to have been fulfilled, when Judas Maccabeus defeated the Ammonites, and took their towns, 1Ma 5:6, &c. Zephaniah speaks in like manner, ch. Jeremiah 2:9. The residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them. But both prophets may perhaps refer to still future times, when Israel... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 49:2

2. Rabbah—"the great," metropolis of Ammon ( :-). Its destruction is foretold also in Ezekiel 25:5; Amos 1:14; Amos 1:15. her daughters—the towns and villages, dependencies of the metropolis (Amos 1:15- :). shall . . . be heir—shall possess those who possessed him. The full accomplishment of this is still future; partially fulfilled under the Maccabees (1 Maccabees 5:6). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 49:1-6

D. The oracle against Ammon 49:1-6The Ammonites lived north of the Moabites, north of the Arnon River for most of their history, and east of the tribal territories of Gad and Reuben. However, the Ammonites had taken over some Israelite territory in Transjordan, and their borders to the north and south also changed from time to time. Ammon extended north to the Jabbok River and east to the Arabian Desert. The Ammonites, like the Moabites, descended from Lot, Abraham’s nephew, and Israel’s... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 49:2

Because Ammon had taken over territory that Yahweh had given to His people, the Lord would send soldiers against the capital city, Rabbah (modern Amman, the capital of Jordan). He would destroy it and the other Ammonite towns, and enable Israel to repossess what the Lord had given her. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 49:1-39

Against Ammon, Edom, and other Nations1-6. The territory of Ammon was N. of Moab, and the two peoples were connected by descent. The carrying away of the tribes on the E. of Jordan by Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria (2 Kings 15:29), strengthened the hands of Ammon, and it is their occupation of the portion of Gad upon that occasion that forms the crime which is dwelt on in this prophecy, and which shall bring on them judgment.1. Their king] RV ’Malcam,’or Moloch, the god of the Ammonites, and... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 49:2

(2) Rabbah of the Ammonites.—More fully, of the children of Ammon.—Rabbah, or Rabbath, the “city of waters” (the word signifies “Great,” and the city was, as it were, the Megalopolis of Ammon), was the capital, and this was its full and formal title (Deuteronomy 3:11; 2 Samuel 11:1; 2 Samuel 12:26). It had been captured by Joab after the siege made memorable by the death of Uriah the Hittite. Jeremiah now predicts its destruction as Amos (Jeremiah 50:14) had done before him. Israel shall then... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 49:1-6

CHAPTER XXAMMONJeremiah 49:1-6"Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth Moloch possess Gad, and his people dwell in the cities thereof?"- Jeremiah 49:1THE relations of Israel with Ammon were similar but less intimate than they were with his twin brother Moab. Hence this prophecy is, mutatis mutandis, an abridgment of that concerning Moab. As Moab was charged with magnifying himself against Jehovah, and was found to be occupying cities which Reuben claimed as its inheritance, so Ammon... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Jeremiah 49:1-39

CHAPTER 49 Concerning Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar, and Elam 1. Concerning the Ammonites (Jeremiah 49:1-6 ) 2. Concerning Edom (Jeremiah 49:7-22 ) 3. Concerning Damascus (Jeremiah 49:23-27 ) 4. Concerning Kedar and Hazor (Jeremiah 49:28-33 ) 5. Against Elam (Jeremiah 49:34-39 ) Ammon was the younger brother of Moab, and, like the Moabites, the Ammonites were a wicked people, though they had no cities like Moab, but were restless wanderers; they were also the enemies of Israel. The... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Jeremiah 49:2

49:2 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in {d} Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir to them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.(d) Which was one of the chief cities of the Ammonites, as were Heshbon and Ai: there was also a city called Heshbon among the Moabites. read more