Jeremiah 49:23,Jeremiah 49:24

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 49:23

Jeremiah 49:23 . Concerning Damascus “Damascus was the capital of the kingdom of Syria: and had seemingly at this time swallowed up all the other petty sovereignties of that country. Isaiah had before uttered a prophecy concerning it, of a calamitous import, (chap. 17,) which had been fulfilled by Tiglath-pileser’s taking it, and carrying the people captive to Kir, 2 Kings 16:9. Amos also had foretold the same event, Amos 1:3-5. But it had recovered itself after the fall of the Assyrian... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 49:23-27

A message concerning Damascus (49:23-27)Damascus was the capital of the country that in ancient times was known as Aram and later became known as Syria. The city had been conquered by Assyria in 732 BC (2 Kings 16:9), but when Jeremiah began his ministry it was still occupied, having become a provincial centre within the Assyrian Empire. Jeremiah now foresees that it is about to suffer the horrors of war and defeat again, because Babylon is about to conquer Assyria.This prophecy must have been... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 49:23

The Forty-Seventh Prophecy of Jeremiah (see book comments for Jeremiah). Damascus. The prophecy concerns Syria generally, of which Damascus was the principal city. Hamath. Now Hama, in the valley of the Greekntes, north of Damascus. Arpad. Now Tell Erfad, thirteen miles north of Aleppo. Compare 2 Kings 18:34 ; 2 Kings 19:13 .Isaiah 10:9 ; Isaiah 36:19 ; Isaiah 37:13 . evil tidings = calamitous report. Hebrew. ra'a' . App-44 . sorrow = anxiety, or trouble. Hebrew. ra'a'. App-44 . Not... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 49:23

PROPHECY AGAINST DAMASCUS"Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil tidings, they are melted away, there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet. Damascus is waxed feeble, she turneth herself to flee, and trembling hath seized: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail. How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy? Therefore her young men shall fall in the streets, and all the men of war shall be brought to silence in that... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 49:23

Jeremiah 49:23. Concerning Damascus— Damascus was the capital of the kingdom of Syria, and had seemingly at this time swallowed up all the other petty sovereignties of that country. Isaiah had before uttered a prophesy concerning it of a calamitous import, ch. 17 which had been fulfilled by Tiglath-pileser's taking it, and carrying the people captives to Kir, 2 Kings 16:9. Amos also had foretold the same event, ch. Jeremiah 1:3-5. But it had recovered itself after the fall of the Assyrian... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 49:23

23. Prophecy as to Damascus, c. (Isaiah 17:1 Isaiah 10:9). The kingdom of Damascus was destroyed by Assyria, but the city revived, and it is as to the latter Jeremiah now prophesies. The fulfilment was probably about five years after the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar [JOSEPHUS, Antiquities, 10.9,7]. Hamath is confounded—at the tidings of the overthrow of the neighboring Damascus. on the sea—that is, at the sea; the dwellers there are alarmed. Other manuscripts read, "like the sea."... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 49:23

Hamath, 110 miles north of Damascus, and Arpad, 95 miles north of Hamath, were allied city-states that would hear disheartening and shameful news. The sea may have been some local body of water or some local symbol that Jeremiah used as a figure of disquietude. [Note: Feinberg, "Jeremiah," p. 669.] The lovely Pharpar River flowed through the city (cf. 2 Kings 5:12). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 49:23-27

F. The oracle against Damascus 49:23-27Perhaps this oracle is shorter because Damascus had not had the history of contact with Judah, in recent years, that the other nations mentioned in these oracles did. However, the books of Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles document incessant hostilities between the Arameans and Israel and Judah-earlier in history. Damascus was the capital of Aram, and the leader of a coalition of Aramean city-states (cf. Isaiah 7:8). It stood about 150 miles north-northeast of... 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 49:23

(23) Concerning Damascus.—Damascus is named as the capital of Aram, or Syria. The kingdom first became powerful under Rezon after David’s death (1 Kings 11:23-24). In the history of 1 and 2 Kings we find it engaged in constant wars against Israel and Judah (1 Kings 22:1; 2 Kings 6:8) or in alliance with Israel against Judah (1 Kings 15:19; 2 Kings 16:5-6). The last of these alliances was the memorable confederacy of Isaiah 7:2, between Rezin and Pekah. That ended, as Isaiah foretold, in the... read more