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John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 49:28
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, etc.] A new prophecy concerning the Arabians; for Kedar was a son of Ishmael, (<012513>Genesis 25:13); whose posterity inhabited Arabia Petraea. Hazor was Petra itself, the metropolis of the country, whose king had several petty kings and kingdoms under him; for this is not the Hazor in the land of Canaan destroyed by Joshua, which had been the head of several kingdoms; and where Jabin king of Canaan afterwards reigned, (<061110>Joshua 11:10) (<070402>Judges 4:2); though some think that some of those Hazorites in Joshua’s time made their escape, and fled into these parts, and built a city, and called it after the name of the former: which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the Lord: that is, “thus saith the Lord concerning”, or “unto”, or “against Kedar”f953, etc. as in (<244901>Jeremiah 49:1); which the king of Babylon “hath smitten”; the past for the future, common in prophetic language: or, “is about to smite”f954; would do it in a very little time; for the phrase, “thus saith the Lord”, is not to be connected with what follows after, but with what goes before; though indeed the next words are the words of the Lord to the Chaldeans: arise ye, go up to Kedar; in a hostile manner; invade that country, and possess it: and spoil the men of the east; the Arabians, which lay east of Judea and Babylon: or, “the children of Kedem”f955; the same with Kedemah, another son of Ishmael, (<012515>Genesis 25:15); whose posterity dwelt still more to the east; so Kimchi; though the Targum renders it “the children of the east”.
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