John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 48:24
And upon Kerioth ,.... Which once belonged to the tribe of Judah, Joshua 15:25 ; from this place Judas Iscariot is by some thought to have his name; as if it was "Ish Kerioth", "a man of Kerioth". Grotius takes it to be the Goiratha of Ptolemy: and upon Bozrah ; not in Idumea, but in Moab; the same with Bezer, Joshua 21:36 ; and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, for and near ; all the rest of the cities not named, whether nearer or farther off from Aroer. read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 48:14-47
The destruction is here further prophesied of very largely and with a great copiousness and variety of expression, and very pathetically and in moving language, designed not only to awaken them by a national repentance and reformation to prevent the trouble, or by a personal repentance and reformation to prepare for it, but to affect us with the calamitous state of human life, which is liable to such lamentable occurrences, and with the power of God's anger and the terror of his judgments,... read more