Jeremiás 49:1

Biblia Karoli Gaspar

Az Ammon fiai felõl ezt mondja az Úr: Nincsenek-é Izráelnek fiai? Nincsen-é örököse néki? Miért birtokolja Milkom Gádot, és az õ népe miért lakik annak városaiban?

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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

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.