Matthew Poole Commentary - Jeremiah 49:2 - 49:2

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Jeremiah 49:2 - 49:2


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Because the Ammonites had violently seized upon some part of the Jews’ land, and (as we have it, Amo_1:13,14) cruelly ripped up the women with child in Gilead, that they might enlarge their border, God threatens a war to Rabbah, Amo_1:14, calls it a fire, which should make Rabbah a heap. Of this Rabbah, as the head city of the Ammonites, we read Deu_3:11 Jos_13:25 15:60. It was there where, in David’s time, Uriah was slain, 2Sa_11:1,17 12:26. It is threatened by Jeremiah in this chapter, and Eze_25:5 Amo_1:13,14. We read not how or when this prophecy was fulfilled, whether by the Maccabees, /APC 1Ma 5:6, or rather after the coming of Christ, when most of these nations were destroyed. God threatens not only their metropolis, which was Rabbah their mother city, but all the other cities belonging to the Ammonites, which were as it were daughters to Rabbah. But how the last clause of this prophecy was ever fulfilled, if it were not in the time of the Maccabees, I cannot understand; for though they were swallowed up afterward by the Roman empire, yet Israel being also subdued by them, and scattered into all parts, it is not likely that many of them were suffered to, abide in any considerable numbers in a country so near their own.