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From the Blue Letter Bible
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jer 48:4 — Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
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Moab
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This prophecy against Moab, as well as the following ones concerning Ammon, Edom, and the neighbouring countries, seem to have been fulfilled during the long siege of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar. Josephus places these events five years after the destruction of Jerusalem. Num 21:27-30 |
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Est 8:11; Psa 137:9 |
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Num 21:27 |
Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared: |
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Num 21:28 |
For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, [and] the lords of the high places of Arnon. |
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Num 21:29 |
Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites. |
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Num 21:30 |
We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which [reacheth] unto Medeba. |
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Est 8:11 |
Wherein the king granted the Jews which [were] in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, [both] little ones and women, and [to take] the spoil of them for a prey, |
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Psa 137:9 |
Happy [shall he be], that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "Jeremiah 48:4," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Jer/48/4.html>.
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