Jeremiah 48:3
in Jeremiah 48A voice cries out from Horonaim: ‘Devastation and great destruction!’
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ASV
The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!
KJV
A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.
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This verse in Jeremiah 48
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA voice of crying shall be from Horonaim,.... Another city of Moab. The word is of the dual number; and, according to Kimchi and Ben Melech, there were two Horons, the upper and the lower; of this place See Gill on Isa 15:5; this also should be destroyed; and so a cry of the inhabitants of it should be heard out of it: spoiling, and great destruction; because the city was spoiled, and a great destruction made in the inhabitants and riches of it.
This site's exposition
Against Moab thus saith the Lord
on Jeremiah 48:1-10
The Moab oracle opens with a gazetteer of falling towns, Nebo, Kiriathaim, Heshbon, Horonaim, the weeping going up the ascent of Luhith, and the ground of it is stated at verse 7: because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures. Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests, the national god deported with his staff, which is the ancient Near East's own language for a theology defeated, as the bench notes from the monuments. Verse 10's curse on doing the Lord's work deceitfully, or keeping the sword from blood, is stated as what it is in place, the executioner charged not to soften an appointed judgment; the commentators note how often it is quoted out of this grim setting.
The record, by era
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
Horonaim - Another city of Moab, near to Luhith. At this latter place the hill country of Moab commenced. “It is a place,” says Dahler, “situated upon a height between Areopolis and Zoar.”
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Omit shall be. “Spoiling and great destruction,” literally breaking, is the cry heard from Horonaim Isa 15:5.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ק֥וֹל | kol | [the] sound of | H6963 → | 506 times |
| צְעָקָ֖ה | tzeakah | a cry of distress | H6818 → | 21 times |
| מֵחֹֽרוֹנָ֑יִם | mechoronayim | from Horonaim | H2773 → | 5 times |
| שֹׁ֖ד | shod | devastation | H7701 → | 25 times |
| וָשֶׁ֥בֶר | vashever | and destruction | H7667 → | 45 times |
| גָּדֽוֹל׃ | gadol | great | H1419 → | 526 times |
ק֥וֹל[the] sound of
kolH6963 →506 times
צְעָקָ֖הa cry of distress
tzeakahH6818 →21 times
מֵחֹֽרוֹנָ֑יִםfrom Horonaim
mechoronayimH2773 →5 times
שֹׁ֖דdevastation
shodH7701 →25 times
וָשֶׁ֥בֶרand destruction
vasheverH7667 →45 times
גָּדֽוֹל׃great
gadolH1419 →526 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 15:5My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 48:5
For on the ascent to Luhith they weep bitterly as they go, and on the descent to Horonaim cries of distress resound over the destruction:
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Jeremiah 4:20
Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.
- Luke 19:41–44
As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it
- Jeremiah 48:31–36
Therefore I will wail for Moab; I will cry out for all of Moab; I will moan for the men of Kir-heres.
- Jeremiah 9:18–19
Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.
- Jeremiah 48:5
Through
Jeremiah 48:34There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; they raise their voices to Jahaz, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim have dried up.
it leads to
- Isaiah 15:4–6
Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out; their souls tremble within.
- Numbers 32:3
“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
- Isaiah 15:4–6
Through
Jeremiah 48:5For on the ascent to Luhith they weep bitterly as they go, and on the descent to Horonaim cries of distress resound over the destruction:
it leads to
- Isaiah 15:5
My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.
- Isaiah 15:5
About Jeremiah
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.