John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 48:18

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, etc.] A city in Moab; (see Gill on “<231502>Isaiah 15:2”). The Targum is, “O kingdom of the congregation of Dibon;” but this was not a kingdom of itself, though a principal city in the kingdom of Moab: come down from [thy] glory, and sit in thirst; in a dry and thirsty land; in want of all the necessaries of life; in captivity; who before abounded with all good things, inhabiting a well watered and fruitful soil; (see <231509>Isaiah 15:9); but now called to quit all their former glory and happiness, their fulness and felicity, and submit to the greatest straits and difficulties: for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, [and] he shall destroy thy strong holds; the king of Babylon and his army, who spoiled the other cities of Moab; he should come against this also, and take it, and demolish its fortifications, by reason of which it thought itself secure; but these should not be able to protect it.

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