Jeremiah 49:1-6

Judgment on Ammon

1 ¹Concerning the Ammonites. Thus says the LORD: "Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then has ²Milcom ³dispossessed Gad, and his people settled in its cities?

2 Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will cause ⁴the battle cry to be heard against ⁵Rabbah of the Ammonites; it shall become a desolate ⁶mound, and its villages shall be burned with fire; then Israel shall dispossess those who dispossessed him, says the LORD.

3 "Wail, O ⁷Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste! Cry out, O daughters of ⁸Rabbah! ⁹Put on sackcloth, lament, and run to and fro among the hedges! For ¹⁰Milcom shall go into exile, ¹¹with his priests and his officials.

4 Why do you boast of your valleys,^[a] ¹²O faithless daughter, ¹³who trusted in her treasures, saying, 'Who will come against me?'

5 Behold, ¹⁴I will bring terror upon you, declares the Lord GOD of hosts, from all who are around you, and you shall be driven out, every man straight before him, with none to gather the fugitives.

6 "But ¹⁵afterward I will restore the fortunes of the Ammonites, declares the LORD."

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Jeremiah 49:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 49

This chapter contains prophecies concerning the judgments of God on several nations and kingdoms, chiefly bordering on the land of Israel; on the Ammonites, Jer 49:1-6; on the Edomites, Jer 49:7-22; on the kingdom of Damascus, or the Syrians, Jer 49:23-27; on the Kedarenes or Arabians, Jer 49:28-33; and on the Elamites or Persians, Jer 49:34-39.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 15

1. Ezekiel 25:21">ch. Ezekiel 25:21; [Ezekiel 21:28; Ezekiel 25:2]
2. [1 Kings 11:5, 33; 2 Kings 23:13]
3. [Amos 1:13]
4. Jeremiah 4:19
5. Ezekiel 21:20; Ezekiel 25:5; Amos 1:14
6. Jeremiah 30:18
7. Jeremiah 48:2
8. [See ver. 2 above]
9. Jeremiah 48:37; See Jeremiah 4:8
10. [1 Kings 11:5, 33; 2 Kings 23:13]
11. Jeremiah 48:7
12. Jeremiah 3:14
13. Jeremiah 48:7
14. [Jeremiah 48:43]
15. [ver. 39; Jeremiah 48:47]

Footnotes 1

[a]. Hebrew boast of your valleys, your valley flows

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