Jeremiah 48:3
in Jeremiah 48A voice cries out from Horonaim: ‘Devastation and great destruction!’
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
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
Concerning Moab, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says
on Jeremiah 48:1-10
The oracle names Moab’s towns, and verse 7 gives the cause: “Because you trust in your works and treasures.” Moab’s god goes too: “Chemosh will go into exile with his priests and officials.” Verse 10 curses the one who “withholds his sword from bloodshed,” a charge not to spare Moab.
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
Where this verse is studied
On this page
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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.
