Jeremiás 48:34

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Hesbon kiáltása miatt Elealéig [és] Jáhásig felhat az õ szavok; Soártól fogva Horonáimig [és] Eglath-Selisájjáig, mert a Nimrim vize is elapad.

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the cry: Jeremiah 48:2, Isaiah 15:4-6

Elealeh: Numbers 32:37

Jahaz: Jeremiah 48:21, Jahazah

Zoar: Jeremiah 48:3, Jeremiah 48:5, Deuteronomy 34:3, Isaiah 15:5

as an heifer of: As a young cow, when deprived of her first calf; which runs about from place to place, filling the air with loud and repeated lowings, expressive of the deepest distress.

Nimrim: Numbers 32:3, Nimrah, Numbers 32:36, Beth-nimrah, Isaiah 15:6

desolate: Heb. desolations

Reciprocal: Genesis 13:10 - Zoar Genesis 14:2 - Zoar Genesis 19:22 - called Genesis 19:30 - Zoar Numbers 21:23 - Jahaz Numbers 21:25 - in Heshbon Nehemiah 2:10 - Horonite Jeremiah 46:12 - thy cry Amos 2:2 - with tumult

Gill's Notes on the Bible

From the cry of Heshbon [even] unto Elealeh,.... Two cities in the land of Moab; of which see Isaiah 15:4. Heshbon being destroyed, a cry was made by the inhabitants of it, which either reached from thence to Elealeh; or the destruction being carried on to that city, the cry was continued there:

[and even] unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice; another city of Moab; see Isaiah 15:4; which also was laid waste, and where the Moabites uttered their voice of lamentation on account of it:

from Zoar [even] unto Horonaim, [as] an heifer of three years old: that is, as the destruction should go on to Zoar, and so to Horonaim; of which places see Isaiah 15:5; so the cry of the distressed, and of those that flee, should also go from place to place; and be as loud, and as strong, and heard as far, as the lowing of a heifer of three years old. Naturalists l observe, that the voice in all female creatures is smaller and shriller, excepting the ox; for the voices of the females of that creature is stronger than in the males; and also that the taming of these creatures is when they are three years old, that is the proper time; before it is too soon, and afterwards too late m; and then it is their voice is fuller, and their strength firmer, to which the allusion here is; Isaiah 15:5- :;

for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate; being disturbed by the Chaldean army, their horses treading them with their feet, and so fouling them; or being mixed with the blood of the slain, and so unfit to drink. A sad case this, to have neither wine nor water;

Isaiah 15:5- :; to which may be added, that Jerom also makes mention of a village in his time called Benamerium, to the north of Zoar; and seems rather the place intended.

l Aristotel. Hist. Animal. l. 4. c. 11. Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 11. c. 51. m Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 45.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The meaning is that, taking up the lamentation of Heshbon, the Moabites break forth into a wail, heard as far as Elealeh, scarcely two miles distant Numbers 32:37, but thence spreading over the land to towns on the southern and southwestern borders of the land.

An heifer of three years old - Applied in Isaiah 15:5 to Zoar, but here to Horonaim. Some take “an heifer” as a proper name, and render it: “Eglah for the third part” (compare Isaiah 19:24). Zoar, Horonaim, and Eglah formed a tripolis, or confederacy of three towns, and Eglah might therefore be put after either one or the other.

Nimrim - Probably the Wady-en-Nemeirah at the southeastern end of the Dead Sea.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 48:34. As a heifer of three years old — Which runs lowing from place to place in search of her calf, which is lost or taken from her.