John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 49:23
Concerning Damascus ,.... Or, "unto Damascus" F4 לדמשק "ad Damascum", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus. ; or, "against Damascus" F5 "Contra Damascum", Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Schmidt. ; that is, "thus saith the Lord"; which is to be repeated from the foregoing instances, Jeremiah 49:1 . This is to be understood, not only of the city of Damascus, but of the whole kingdom of Syria, of which Damascus was the metropolis; see Isaiah 7:8 ; Hamath is confounded,... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 49:23-27
The kingdom of Syria lay north of Canaan, as that of Edom lay south, and thither we must now remove and take a view of the approaching fate of that kingdom, which had been often vexatious to the Israel of God. Damascus was the metropolis of that kingdom, and the ruin of the whole is supposed in the ruin of that: yet Hamath and Arpad, two other considerable cities, are names (Jer. 49:23), and the palaces of Ben-hadad, which he built, are particularly marked for ruin, Jer. 49:27; see also Amos... read more