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Jer 48:42 — And Moab shall be destroyed from [being] a people, because he hath magnified [himself] against the LORD.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Moab		Moab has long since ceased to be a nation; while the Jews, agreeably to the Divine promise, (Jer 46:28,) though successively subdued and oppressed by the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Syro-Macedonians, and Romans, (which have also all passed away, and are no more,) and dispersed over the face of the earth, subsist to this day as a distinct people from all the nations of the world!
from		Jer 48:2; Jer 30:11; Est 3:8-13; Psa 83:4-8; Isa 7:8; Mat 7:2
magnified		Jer 48:26-30; Pro 16:18; Isa 37:23; Dan 11:36; 2Th 2:4; Rev 13:6

Correlating Passages

Moab

Jer 46:28

Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I [am] with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.

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	Jer 48:2	[There shall be] no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from [being] a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.
	Jer 30:11	For I [am] with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.
	Est 3:8	And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws [are] diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it [is] not for the king's profit to suffer them.
	Est 3:9	If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring [it] into the king's treasuries.
	Est 3:10	And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.
	Est 3:11	And the king said unto Haman, The silver [is] given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.
	Est 3:12	Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors that [were] over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and [to] every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring.
	Est 3:13	And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, [even] upon the thirteenth [day] of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and [to take] the spoil of them for a prey.
	Psa 83:4	They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from [being] a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
	Psa 83:5	For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
	Psa 83:6	The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
	Psa 83:7	Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
	Psa 83:8	Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
	Isa 7:8	For the head of Syria [is] Damascus, and the head of Damascus [is] Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
	Mat 7:2	For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

magnified

	Jer 48:26	Make ye him drunken: for he magnified [himself] against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
	Jer 48:27	For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.
	Jer 48:28	O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove [that] maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth.
	Jer 48:29	We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.
	Jer 48:30	I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but [it shall] not [be] so; his lies shall not so effect [it].
	Pro 16:18	Pride [goeth] before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
	Isa 37:23	Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.
	Dan 11:36	And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
	2Th 2:4	Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
	Rev 13:6	And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

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Scott, Thomas. "Jeremiah 48:42," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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