Jeremiah 48:21

And judgment is come upon the plain country ,.... Of Moab, which was for the most part such, especially that which lay near Arnon; the judgment of God's vengeance, punishment for sin, by the hand of the Chaldeans. The Targum is,

"they that execute vengeance are come:'

upon Holon ; a city of Moab; of which see Joshua 15:51 ; it had its name perhaps from the sandy ground on which it stood. Grotius takes it to be the Alabana of Ptolemy:

and upon Jahazah : the same with Jahaz; see Gill on Isaiah 15:4 ; reckoned by Grotius to be the Jadu of Ptolemy; see Joshua 13:18 ;

and upon Mephaath ; of which see Joshua 13:18 ; said by Grotius to be the Maipha of Ptolemy.