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Jeremiah 49:1
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Concerning the Ammonites. Thus says the Lord : "Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then has Milcom dispossessed Gad, and his people settled in its cities?
Vnto the children of Ammon thus saith the Lord, Hath Israel no sonnes? or hath he none heire? Why then hath their king possessed God? and his people dwelt in his cities?
About the Ammonites, this is what the Lord says:
Of the children of `Ammon. Thus says the LORD: Has Yisra'el no sons? has he no heir? why then does Malkam possess Gad, and his people well in the cities of it?
Concerning the children of Ammon. Thus saith Jehovah: Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? Why is Malcam heir of Gad, and his people dwell in the cities thereof?
This message is about the Ammonites. This is what the Lord says: "Ammonites, do you think that the people of Israel don't have children? Do you think there are no children to take the land when the parents die? Maybe that is why Milcom took Gad's land?"
Concerning the sons (descendants) of Ammon. Thus says the LORD: "Does Israel have no sons [to reclaim Gad from the Ammonites]? Has he no heir? Why then has Malcam taken possession of Gad And [why do] his people live in the cities [of Gad]?
Of the children of Ammon. Thus saith Jehovah: Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth Malcam possess Gad, and his people dwell in the cities thereof?
Concerning the Ammonites, this is what the LORD says: "Has Israel no sons? Is he without heir? Why then has Molech taken possession of Gad and his people settled in their cities?
The Lord has this to say about the nation of Ammon: The people of Israel have plenty of children to inherit their lands. So why have you worshipers of the god Milcom taken over towns and land belonging to the Gad tribe?
Concerning the people of ‘Amon, here is what Adonai says: "Has Isra'el no sons? Has he no heir? Then why has Malkam inherited Gad, with his people settled in its cities?
Of the children of Ammon. Thus saith the LORD: Hath Israel no sons? Hath he no heir? Why then doth Malcam take possession of Gad, and his people dwell in the cities thereof?
Concerning the Ammonites, thus sayth the Lord; hath Israel no sonnes? Hath he no heire? Why then doth their king inherit God, and his people dwell in his cities?
Then came all the leaders of the host, and Joanan, and Azarias the son of Maasaeas, and all the people great and small,
Of the children of Ammon. Thus saith the LORD: Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth Malcam possess Gad, and his people dwell in the cities thereof?
Concerning the Ammonites: Thus says Yahweh, "Are there no sons for Israel? Or is there no heir for him? Why has Milcom taken possession of Gad, and his people dwelled in its towns?
So says Jehovah to the sons of Ammon: Has Israel no sons? Or has he no heir? Why does their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in its cities?
This message is to the Ammonite people. This is what the Lord says: "Do you think that Israel has no children? Do you think there is no one to take the land when the parents die? If that were true, why did Molech take Gad's land and why did Molech's people settle in Gad's towns?"
The Lord spoke about the Ammonites. "Do you think there are not any people of the nation of Israel remaining? Do you think there are not any of them remaining to reinherit their land? Is that why you people who worship the god Milcom have taken possession of the territory of Gad and live in his cities?
Against the Ammonites. Thus says the Lord: "Has Israel no sons?Has he no heir?Why then does Milcom Jeremiah 49:3)">[fn] inherit Gad,And his people dwell in its cities?
This message was given concerning the Ammonites. This is what the Lord says: "Are there no descendants of Israel to inherit the land of Gad? Why are you, who worship Molech, living in its towns?
About the sons of Ammon, the Lord says, "Does Israel have no sons? Does she have no one to receive what she leaves? Why then has Malcam taken Gad as his own? Why do his people live in its cities?
Concerning the Ammonites. Thus says the Lord : Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then has Milcom dispossessed Gad, and his people settled in its towns?
Of the sons of Ammon-Thus saith Yahweh: Hath Israel no, sons? Hath he no, heir? Why hath, Malkam, taken possession of Gad, Or have, his people, in the cities thereof, made their dwelling?
Against the children of Ammon. Thus saith the Lord: Hath Israel no sons? or hath he no heir? Why then hath Melchom inherited Gad: and his people dwelt in his cities?
CONCERNING the Ammonites, thus says the LORD: Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then has Malcolm inherited Gad, and why do his people dwell in its cities?
This is what the Lord said about Ammon: "Where are the men of Israel? Is there no one to defend their land? Why have they let the people who worship Molech take the territory of the tribe of Gad and settle there?
Concerning the sons of Ammon. This is what the LORD says: "Does Israel have no sons? Or has he no heirs? Why then has Malcam taken possession of Gad, And his people settled in its cities?
Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why [then] doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?
As concerning the Ammonites, thus the Lorde saith: Hath Israel no chyldren? or is he without any ayre? Why hath your kyng then taken Gad in? Wherefore doth his people dwell in his cities.
`Go ye to the sones of Amon. The Lord seith these thingis. Whether no sones ben of Israel, ether an eir is not to it? whi therfor weldide Melchon the eritage of Gad, and the puple therof dwellide in the citees of Gad?
Concerning the sons of Ammon: `Thus said Jehovah: Sons -- hath Israel none? heir -- hath he none? Wherefore hath Malcam possessed Gad? And his people in its cities have dwelt?
Of the children of Ammon. Thus says Yahweh: Has Israel no sons? has he no heir? why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people well in the cities of it?
Concerning the Ammonites. Thus says the LORD: "Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then has Milcom dispossessed Gad, and his people settled in its cities?
Of the sons of Ammon. Thus says Yahweh: Has Israel no sons? has he no heir? why then does Milcom possess Gad, and his people dwell in the cities thereof?
About the children of Ammon. These are the words of the Lord: Has Israel no sons? has he no one to take the heritage? why then has Milcom taken Gad for himself, putting his people in its towns?
As concerninge the Ammonites, thus the LORDE saieth: Hath Israel no children, or is he without an heyre? Why hath youre kynge then taken Gad in? wherfore doth his people dwell in his cities?
God 's Message on the Ammonites: "Doesn't Israel have any children, no one to step into her inheritance? So why is the god Milcom taking over Gad's land, his followers moving into its towns? But not for long! The time's coming" — God 's Decree— "When I'll fill the ears of Rabbah, Ammon's big city, with battle cries. She'll end up a pile of rubble, all her towns burned to the ground. Then Israel will kick out the invaders. I, God , say so, and it will be so. Wail Heshbon, Ai is in ruins. Villages of Rabbah, wring your hands! Dress in mourning, weep buckets of tears. Go into hysterics, run around in circles! Your god Milcom will be hauled off to exile, and all his priests and managers right with him. Why do you brag of your once-famous strength? You're a broken-down has-been, a castoff Who fondles his trophies and dreams of glory days and vainly thinks, ‘No one can lay a hand on me.' Well, think again. I'll face you with terror from all sides." Word of the Master, God -of-the-Angel-Armies. "You'll be stampeded headlong, with no one to round up the runaways. Still, the time will come when I will make things right with Ammon." God 's Decree.
Concerning the sons of Ammon. Thus says the LORD: "Does Israel have no sons? Or has he no heirs? Why then has Malcam taken possession of Gad And his people settled in its cities?
Concerning the sons of Ammon. Thus says Yahweh:"Does Israel have no sons?Or has he no one who can take possession?Why then has Malcam taken possession of GadAnd his people settled in its cities?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
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Concerning: or, Against, Jeremiah 49:7, Jeremiah 49:23, Jeremiah 49:28, Jeremiah 48:1
Ammonites: Jeremiah 25:9, Jeremiah 25:21, Jeremiah 27:3, Genesis 19:38, Deuteronomy 2:19, Deuteronomy 23:3, 2 Chronicles 20:1, 2 Chronicles 20:23, Psalms 83:7, Ezekiel 21:28-32, Ezekiel 25:2-10, Amos 1:13-15, Zephaniah 2:8-11
their king: or, Melcom, Judges 10:7, Judges 10:8, Judges 11:13-15, 1 Samuel 11:1-3, 2 Kings 10:33, 2 Kings 24:2, Nehemiah 2:19, Nehemiah 4:7, Nehemiah 13:1, Nehemiah 13:2
cities: Psalms 9:6
Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 27:5 - the king of the Ammonites Jeremiah 12:14 - that Jeremiah 40:14 - Ammonites Jeremiah 49:3 - their king Ezekiel 26:2 - she is Ezekiel 35:10 - thou hast Ezekiel 36:2 - ours Ezekiel 36:5 - appointed Joel 3:2 - and parted Obadiah 1:19 - Benjamin Micah 1:15 - will
Cross-References
And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord .
But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.
When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
Gather the people together, men and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the Lord,.... Or, "to the Ammonites" u; or, "against" them w; it will bear to be rendered either way, and all is true; for what is said by the Lord, as follows, is concerning them, their sins, and their punishment, and is directed to them, and is a threatening against them:
hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? certainly he has, and who ought to possess the land; this is to be understood not of the ten tribes, sometimes called Israel, as distinct from the other two; for these had been long ago carried captive, and left no heirs of their tribes; but of all Israel, including the tribes of Judah and Benjamin; who, though their brethren of the ten tribes were carried captive, and left no children to inherit, yet, being next in blood, were the lawful heirs of their lands and possessions:
why [then] doth their king inherit Gad? that part of the land of Israel which belonged to the tribe of Gad; this, when the ten tribes were carried captive by the king of Assyria, and the Gadites among the rest, was seized on by the Ammonites, with their king at the head of them, lying near unto them; who might also pretend relation, as being the children of Lot, the brother's son of Abraham; or claim it, as having been their own formerly, and so were the lawful heirs of it, as they imagined; when it of right belonged to the children of Judah and Benjamin: or, "why doth Malcam inherit Gad?" x the same with Milcom or Molech, the abomination of the Ammonites, the idol they worshipped,
1 Kings 11:5; so Jarchi interprets it. The Ammonites having got possession of the land, set up their idol in it, where temples were built for him, and altars erected, and sacrifices offered to him, so that he might be said to inherit it; and which must be very offensive to, and highly resented by, the God of Israel:
and his people dwelt in his cities: the Ammonites dwelt in the cities belonging to the tribe of Gad, as if they were their own; who are called the people of Milcom, or Molech, just as the Moabites are called the people of Chemosh, from the idol they worshipped, Jeremiah 48:46.
u לבני עמון "ad filios Ammon", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus. w "Contra filios Ammonis", Schmidt; "de [vel] contra", Vatablus; "contra", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. x מדוע ירש מלכם את גד "cur igitur haereditate possedit Melchom Gad?" V. L. Lutherus, Sanctius, Castalio.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Hath Israel no sons? - i. e., the Ammonites in seizing Gilead have acted as if the country had no rightful owner. The sons of Israel were to return from captivity, and the land was their hereditary property.
Their king - Milcom (and in Jeremiah 49:3), see the margin. The Ammonite god stands for the Ammonites just as Chemosh Jeremiah 48:7 is the equivalent of the Moabites.
Inherit - i. e., take possession of.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XLIX
This chapter is a collection of prophecies relating to several
nations in the neighbourhood of Judea; and, like those
preceding, are supposed to have been fulfilled by the ministry
of Nebuchadnezzar during the thirteen years' siege of Tyre. The
chapter opens with a prophecy concerning the Ammonites, whose
chief city, Rabbah, shall be destroyed; and Malcom, the supreme
divinity of the people, with all his retinue of priests and
officers, carried into captivity, 1-5.
Promise that the Ammonites shall be restored to their liberty, 6.
Prophecy against the Edomites, (very like that most dreadful one
in the thirty-fourth chapter of Isaiah against the same
people,) who shall be utterly exterminated, after the
similitude of Sodom and Gomorrah, 7-22.
Prophecy against Damascus, 23-27;
and against Kedar, 28, 29.
Utter desolation of the kingdoms of Hazor foretold, 30-33.
The polity of the Elamites shall be completely dissolved, and
the people dispersed throughout the nations, 34-38.
The Elamites shall be delivered from their captivity in the
latter days, 39.
It wilt be proper here to observe that these predictions should
not be so explained as if they admitted of merely a private
interpretation; for, as Bishop Lowth remarks upon Isaiah's
prophecy concerning the Idumeans, "by a figure very common in
the prophetical writings, any city or people, remarkably
distinguished as enemies of the people and kingdom of God, is
put for those enemies in general;" therefore, it is under the
Gospel dispensation that these prophecies shall be accomplished
to their fullest extent upon all the antichristian nations
that have sinned after the similitude of the ancient enemies of
the people of God under the Mosaic economy.
NOTES ON CHAP. XLIX
Verse Jeremiah 49:1. CONCERNING THE AMMONITES — This prophetic discourse was also delivered after the capture of Jerusalem.
Hath Israel no sons? - no heir? — The Ammonites, it appears, took advantage of the depressed state of Israel, and invaded their territories in the tribe of Gad, hoping to make them their own for ever. But the prophet intimates that God will preserve the descendants of Israel, and will bring them back to their forfeited inheritances.
Why then doth their king — מלכם Malcom or Milcom, the chief idol of the Ammonites. That the idol Milcom is here meant is sufficiently evident from Jeremiah 49:3, where it is said: "Milcom (not their king) shall go into captivity; his PRIESTS and his princes together." Milcom is also called Molech. Malcom is put here for the Ammonites, as the people of Chemosh in the preceding chapter are put for the Moabites in general.
