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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 49:6

In 1 Macc. 5:6, 7, the Ammonites appear again as a powerful nation. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 49:3

Jeremiah 49:3. Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled This “Ai must be a different city from that taken by Joshua, chap. 8., which lay on the west side of Jordan. Grotius mentions another city, called Gaia by Ptolemy; which, being near Heshbon, the destruction of it was matter of concern to the neighbouring city.” Lament, and run to and fro by the hedges Try to hide yourselves in the thickets, and remove from one place to another, for fear of being discovered. But by גדרות , here rendered... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 49:4-6

Jeremiah 49:4-6. Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys? That is, in the riches of thy fat and plentiful valleys, which overflow with abundance of all things: compare Isaiah 28:1; Isaiah 28:4. Though they be fruitful, yet glory not therein, for, notwithstanding their fertility, they shall be no security to thee against the terror which I shall bring upon thee. Behold, I will bring fear upon thee When God gives up a people to destruction, he commonly takes from them their usual courage.... 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 49:3

Heshbon. Compare Jeremiah 48:2 . Ai. An Ammonite town, not yet identified. cry = cry sadly. hedges = fences. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 49:4

Wherefore . . . ? Who . . . ? Figure of speech Erotesis. thy flowing valley = thy valley flowing [with blood]. trusted = confided. Hebrew. bat a h . App-69 . saying. Some codices, with three early printed editions, read "she who is saying in her heart". read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 49:6

bring again, &c. See note on Jeremiah 48:47 . children = sons. Not the same word as Jeremiah 49:11 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 49:3

Jeremiah 49:3. Howl, O Heshbon— That is, "When Ai, a city of Ammon, is destroyed, it is time for Heshbon, the chief city of Moab, to lament her danger." The author of the Observations remarks, that the phrase, Run to and fro by the hedges, should rather be understood and rendered, Run—by the garden-walls. Their places of burial in the east are without their cities, as well as their gardens; and consequently their going to them must often be by the garden-walls. The ancient warriors of... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 49:4

Jeremiah 49:4. Thy flowing valley— Valley of Anakim. Houbigant renders the verse, Wherefore dost thou glory in thy valleys? Thy valley is spoiled, O backsliding daughter, who didst trust, &c. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 49:3

3. Heshbon . . . Ai—Nebuchadnezzar, coming from the north, first attacked Ammon, then its brother and neighbor, Moab. As Ai of Ammon had already suffered destruction, Heshbon of Moab being near it might well fear the same fate. hedges—Their cities being destroyed, the outcasts have no place of shelter save behind the "hedges" of vineyards and gardens; or else the enclosures of their villages. their king—Melchom, the idol, as the mention of "his priests" shows (compare :-). read more

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