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By Mark D. Published by The High Calling, September 27, Image by Cindee Snider Re. Used with Permission. HarperCollins Dictionary Babylon.
Dead Sea. The tribes. Of or relating to ancient lower Mesopotamia and its empire centered in Babylon. A sovereign head of state, usually a king or queen. The act of relating a prophecy, or inspired message. An upright stone slab usually inscribed or carved for commemorative purposes. Relating to thought about the nature and behavior of God. Gen 37The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab; he is the ancestor of the Moabites to this day. Num Worship of Baal of Peor 1While Israel was staying at Shittim, the people began to have sexual relations with the women of Moab.
Deut 3No Ammonite or Moabite shall be admitted to the assembly of the Lord. Judg Ehud 12The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord strengthened King Eglon of Moab against Israel, because they had done what Amos 1Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment; because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom.
Isa 10For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain. Jer 48 Judgment on Moab 1Concerning Moab. Gen Descendants of Terah 27Now these are the descendants of Terah. Deut 16But as for the towns of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not let anything that breathes remain alive. Josh 17The city and all that is in it shall be devoted to the Lord for destruction.
Dug up, often from an archaeological site. Collective ceremonies having a common focus on a god or gods. Writing, speech, or thought about the nature and behavior of God. Browse by subject - click on a letter below. Home People Places Passages Bibles. The seizing of them laid the whole country open, and made all the wealth of it an easy prey to the victorious army.
Note, 1. Great changes and very dismal ones may be made in a very little time. Here are two cities lost in a night, though that is the time of quietness. Let us therefore lie down as those that know not what a night may bring forth. As the country feeds the cities, so the cities protect the country, and neither can say to the other, I have no need of thee. That the Moabites, being hereby put into the utmost consternation imaginable, should have recourse to their idols for relief, and pour out their tears before them v.
Note, It becomes a people in distress to seek to their God; and shall not we then thus walk in the name of the Lord our God, and call upon him in the time of trouble, before whom we shall not shed such useless profitless tears as they did before their gods? That there should be the voice of universal grief all the country over. It is described here elegantly and very affectingly. The Moabites shall lament the loss of Nebo and Medeba, two considerable cities, which, it is likely, were plundered and burnt.
They shall tear their hair for grief to such a degree that on all their heads shall be baldness, and they shall cut off their beards, according to the customary expressions of mourning in those times and countries. When they go abroad they shall be so far from coveting to appear handsome that in the streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth v. When they come home, instead of applying themselves to their business, they shall go up to the tops of their houses which were flat-roofed, and there they shall weep abundantly, nay, they shall howl, in crying to their gods.
Those that cry not to God with their hearts do but howl upon their beds, Hos. They shall come down with weeping so the margin reads it ; they shall come down from their high places and the tops of their houses weeping as much as they did when they went up.
Divers places are here named that should be full of lamentation v. That the courage of their militia should fail them. Though they were bred soldiers, and were well armed, yet they shall cry out and shriek for fear, and every one of them shall have his life become grievous to him, though it is characteristic of a military life to delight in danger, v. Moab : At the same time, there was a Moabite connection with Israel. Because of this, God told Israel in Deuteronomy that they were not to destroy Moab and take their land.
His paternal grandmother Ruth was from Moab, and David entrusted his father and mother to the protection of the king of Moab when he was a fugitive from Saul 1 Samuel Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste And destroyed, Because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste And destroyed, He has gone up to the temple and Dibon, To the high places to weep.
Moab will wail over Nebo and over Medeba; On all their heads will be baldness, And every beard cut off. In their streets they will clothe themselves with sackcloth; On the tops of their houses And in their streets Everyone will wail, weeping bitterly.
Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out, Their voice shall be heard as far as Jahaz; Therefore the armed soldiers of Moab will cry out; His life will be burdensome to him. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste and destroyed…Kir of Moab…Heshbon and Elealeh : God announced coming judgment on Moab, against these cities. All the cities north of the Arnon River…once belonged to the tribe of Reuben.
Throughout the years, however, the Moabites had persistently pushed the Israelites out of these regions. He has gone up to the temple : The picture is of a Moabite man fleeing the destruction of his city, running to his temple and his pagan gods for protection and mourning To the high places to weep.
They will clothe themselves with sackcloth…everyone will wail, weeping bitterly : At this invasion, and as a result of it, there will be great distress and mourning in Moab.
Jeremiah 48 also prophesies the judgment of Moab, and also gives the reason why. Therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent has not changed.
For by the Ascent of Luhith They will go up with weeping; For in the way of Horonaim They will raise up a cry of destruction, For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate, For the green grass has withered away; The grass fails, there is nothing green. Therefore the abundance they have gained, And what they have laid up, They will carry away to the Brook of the Willows.
The green grass has withered away : The beautiful plains of Moab were wonderful grazing land.
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