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John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 48:15
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Moab is spoiled, etc.] The whole country is ruined; which is spoken of as present, though future, after the manner of prophecy, because of the certainty of it: and gone up [out of] her cities; the inhabitants of Moab were gone up out of their cities, either through fear and flight; or through force, being made to go out of them, and were carried captive. The Targum is, “the Moabites are spoiled, and their cities are desolate;” and so Kimchi interprets it, “the multitude of her cities is made to cease;” the people of them. It might be as well rendered, “and he is gone up to her cities”f885; that is, the spoilerf886, as Kimchi’s father rightly interprets it; (see <244808> Jeremiah 48:8); or it may be rendered, “and his cities, into which he went up”f887; that is, those are spoiled and destroyed, into which the Moabites used to go up, being built on high places; or whither they went for safety, the enemy being in their country, but in vain: and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter; or, “the choice of his chosen ones”f888; the select of them, for comeliness, strength, and valour; these being taken, when the enemy entered the cities, were had down to some place of slaughter, and there put to death; or were brought down to the grave, the pit of corruption; unless this can be understood of the choice young men of the enemy, the Chaldean army; who, mounting and scaling the walls of the cities of Moab, went down into them to slay the inhabitants of them; but this is submitted to consideration. All this was not barely said by the prophet, who was but a man, though sent of God; but by the Lord himself, as it follows: saith the King, whose name [is] the Lord of hosts; who is “the King” by way of eminency; the King of kings, and Lord of lords; mightier than the king of Moab, or even than the king of Babylon; and the Lord of greater armies than either; and therefore what he said should certainly be accomplished.
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