Jer 49:1 | Clarke | e4.org | 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 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 ] Malcom or Milcom , the chief idol of the Ammonites. That the idol Milcom is here meant is sufficiently evident from , 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.

‏ Jeremiah 49:1

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 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] Malcom or Milcom, the chief idol of the Ammonites. That the idol Milcom is here meant is sufficiently evident from Jer 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.