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Jeremiah 48:3

in Jeremiah 48

A voice cries out from Horonaim: ‘Devastation and great destruction!’

BSB

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.

This verse in Jeremiah 48

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
A 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

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

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.”
Omit shall be. “Spoiling and great destruction,” literally breaking, is the cry heard from Horonaim Isa 15:5.

The words behind it

6 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • 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 stops

Each 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 15:5

    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.

    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.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 48:34

    There 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,

  • Through

    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:

    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.

Where this verse is studied

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About Jeremiah

Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.

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.