Jeremiah 48:8

8 "A destroyer will come to every city, So that no city will escape; The valley also will be ruined And the ¹plateau will be destroyed, As the LORD has said.

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Jeremiah 48:8 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 48:8

And the spoiler shall come upon every city
That is, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and his army. The Targum is, the spoilers, who came against and took every city of Moab, and wasted them. Josephus ^F14 makes particular mention of Nebuchadnezzar subduing the Ammonites and Moabites: and no city shall escape;
the spoiler, and destruction by him: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the
Lord hath spoken;
not only the cities, and the inhabitants of them; but the inhabitants of the valleys and plains, as the Targum paraphrases it, should be destroyed; and also the corn that grew upon them, and the flocks and herds that grazed there, exactly as the Lord had foretold.

FOOTNOTES:

F14 Antiqu. l. 10. c. 9. sect. 7.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Jeremiah 48:8 In-Context

6 "Flee, save your lives, That you may be like a juniper in the wilderness.

7 "For because of your trust in your own achievements and treasures, Even you yourself will be captured; And Chemosh will go off into exile Together with his priests and his princes.

8 "A destroyer will come to every city, So that no city will escape; The valley also will be ruined And the plateau will be destroyed, As the LORD has said.

9 "Give wings to Moab, For she will flee away; And her cities will become a desolation, Without inhabitants in them.

10 "Cursed be the one who does the LORD'S work negligently, And cursed be the one who restrains his sword from blood.

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1. Josh 13:9, 17, 21

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