Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadJohn Trapp Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 48:2 - 48:2
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Jer_48:2 [There shall be] no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from [being] a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.
Ver. 2. There shall be no more praise of Moab.] This may be taken either of a city so called, {a} or of the whole country, as now Muscovia is oft put for all Russia.
In Heshbon they have devised evil against it.] Or better thus, De Heshbone, &c. As concerning Heshbon, they, the Chaldees, have devised evil against it. There is an elegant allusion in the original to the names of the places both in Heshben and in Madmen. {b}
{a} Ariopolis dicta.
{b} Alludit fere propheta ad singularum civitatum nomina. - Jun.