Jeremias 49:1, Jeremias 49:3 NVT

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 49:1

Hath Israel no sons? - i. e., the Ammonites in seizing Gilead have acted as if the country had no rightful owner. The sons of Israel were to return from captivity, and the land was their hereditary property.Their king - Milcom (and in Jeremiah 49:3), see the margin. The Ammonite god stands for the Ammonites just as Chemosh Jeremiah 48:7 is the equivalent of the Moabites.Inherit - i. e., take possession of. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 49:1

Jeremiah 49:1. Hath Israel no sons? Why then doth their king inherit Gad? Is there no posterity of Israel, that the king of the Ammonites hath taken possession of Gad, as if he had a right to it, and his people dwell in the cities of it? Instead of their king, here, Blaney reads Milcom, and Dr. Waterland and Houbigant Malkam, the idol of the Ammonites. “God sorely afflicted those parts of the kingdom of Israel that lay eastward of Jordan, first by Hazael, 2 Kings 10:33; afterward by... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 49:1-6

A message concerning Ammon (49:1-6)Like its brother nation Moab, Ammon was a distant relative of the nation Judah. (Ammon and Moab were descended from Lot; Judah was descended from Lot’s uncle, Abraham; cf. Genesis 12:5; Genesis 19:36-38). Ammon and Moab occupied part of the tableland region east of the Jordan River, which meant they were the immediate neighbours of Israel and Judah to the east.About a century before the time of Jeremiah, Assyria had conquered the northern kingdom Israel and... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 49:1

The Forty-Fifth Prophecy of Jeremiah (see book comments for Jeremiah). Concerning, &c. Supply the Ellipsis, from Jeremiah 47:1 . Ammonites = sons of Ammon, north of Moab. When the tribes east of Jordan were carried away by Tiglath-pileser (2 Kings 15:29 ), Ammon supplanted Gad. This is the sin dealt with here. the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 49:1

JEREMIAH 49PROPHECIES AGAINST AMMON; EDOM; SYRIA; HAZOR; AND ELAM;Jeremiah 49:1-6PROPHECY AGAINST AMMON"Of the children of Ammon. Thus saith Jehovah: Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth Malcam possess Gad, and his people dwell in the cities thereof? Therefore the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Amman; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 49:1

Jeremiah 49:1. Concerning the Ammonites— The evils here foretold happened about the same time with those spoken of in the preceding chapter; that is to say, about five years after the taking of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. Ammon and Moab are generally joined together, as they were united by blood, by interest, and by vicinity. Instead of their king, here, and in Jeremiah 49:3. Houbigant reads Malkam, the idol of the Ammonites. God greatly afflicted those parts of the kingdom of Israel which lay... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 49:1

1. Hath Israel . . . no heir?—namely, to occupy the land of Gad, after it itself has been carried away captive by Shalmaneser. Ammon, like Moab, descended from Lot, lay north of Moab, from which it was separated by the river Arnon, and east of Reuben and Gad (Joshua 13:24; Joshua 13:25) on the same side of Jordan. It seized on Gad when Israel was carried captive. Judah was by the right of kindred the heir, not Ammon; but Ammon joined with Nebuchadnezzar against Judah and Jerusalem (Joshua... read more

Thomas Constable

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

The Lord asked why Malcam (lit. their king; also called Milcom or Molech, cf. Jeremiah 19:5; Deuteronomy 12:31), the god of the Ammonites, had (from the Ammonites’ viewpoint) taken over territory that formerly belonged to the tribe of Gad. Was it that there were no descendants of the Gadites to maintain control of it? No, they had not gained it by default but by stealing it from the Israelites. The Assyrians under Tiglath-Pilesar III had removed the Israelites from Transjordan in 734 B.C., and... 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

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

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 49:1

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 49:1

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 49:1-6

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 49:1

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 49:1

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 49:1

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 49:1

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

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

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

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