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John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 49:2
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, etc.] Or, “are coming”f912; as they did, in a very little time after this prophecy: that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; the metropolis of the Ammonites; it was their royal city in the times of David, (<111101>1 Kings 11:1 12:26); called by Polybiusf913 Rabbahamana; and by Ptolemyf914 Philadelphia, which name it had from Ptolemy Philadelphus, who rebuilt it; this the Lord threatens with the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war, or the noise of warriors, as the Targum; the Chaldean army under Nebuchadnezzar, who, about five years after the destruction of Jerusalem, subdued the Ammonites, as Josephusf915 relates: and it shall be a desolate heap; be utterly destroyed; its walls broken down, and houses demolished, and made a heap of rubbish: and her daughters shall be burnt with fire: Rabbah was the mother city, and the other cities of the Ammonites were her daughters, which are threatened to be destroyed with fire by the enemy; or it may mean the villages round about Rabbah, it being usual in Scripture for villages to be called the daughters of cities; (see <261646>Ezekiel 16:46); so the Targum here paraphrases it, “the inhabitants of her villages shall be burnt with fire:” then shall Israel be heirs unto them that were his heirs, saith the Lord: that is, shall inherit their land again, which the Ammonites pretended to be the lawful heirs of; yea, not only possess their own land, but the land of Ammon too: this was fulfilled not immediately upon the destruction of Ammon, but in part upon the return of the Jews from the Babylonish captivity, when they repossessed their own country; and partly in the times of the Maccabees, when they subdued the Ammonites, “Afterward he passed over to the children of Ammon, where he found a mighty power, and much people, with Timotheus their captain.” (1 Maccabees 5:6) and will more fully in the latter day, when the Jews shall be converted, and return to their own land, and the children of Ammon shall obey them, (<231114>Isaiah 11:14); so Kimchi interprets it; and other Jewish writers understand it of the days of the Messiah, as Abarbinel observes.
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