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Jer. 48:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Against Moabr thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: μMisgab is confounded and dismayed.

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Isa. 15‑16• (Isa. 15‑16)

Isa. 25:10• ¹⁰For in this mountain shall the hand of Jehovah rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down on the dunghill. (Isa. 25:10)

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Ezek. 25:8‑9• ⁸Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen;
⁹therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim, (Ezek. 25:8‑9)

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Amos 2:1‑2• ¹Thus saith Jehovah; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
²but I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet. (Amos 2:1‑2)

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or, the high place.

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Kiriathaim,

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Nebo,

To Spoil,

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Cross References

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1-6: The judgment of Moab,

7-10: for their pride;

11-13: for their security;

14-25: for their carnal confidence;

26-46: and for their contempt of God and his people.

47: The restoration of Moab.

A.M. cir. 3420.

B.C. cir. 584.

Moab.

Jer. 9:26• ²⁶Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart. (Jer. 9:26)

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Jer. 25:21• ²¹Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon, (Jer. 25:21)

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Jer. 27:3• ³and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyrus, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers which come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah; (Jer. 27:3)

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Gen. 19:37• ³⁷And the first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites to this day. (Gen. 19:37)

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Num. 24:17• ¹⁷I shall see him, but not now:{HR}I shall behold him, but not nigh.{HR}There shall come a Star out of Jacob,{HR}And a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel,{HR}And shall smite the corners of Moab,{HR}And destroy all the children of Sheth. (Num. 24:17)

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2 Chron. 20:10• ¹⁰And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab, and those of mount Seir, amongst whom thou wouldest not let Israel go when they came out of the land of Egypt, (for they turned from them, and destroyed them not,) (2 Chron. 20:10)

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Isa. 15:1‑16:14• ¹The burden of Moab.
²He is gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep; Moab howleth over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads [is] baldness, every beard is cut off.
³In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their broad places, every one howleth, weeping abundantly.
⁴And Heshbon crieth out, and Elealeh; their voice is heard unto Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his soul trembleth within him.
⁵My heart crieth out for Moab; their nobles [flee] unto Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah: for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up by it; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.
⁶For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass faileth, there is no green thing.
⁷Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.
⁸For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim.
⁹For the waters of Dimon are full of blood: for I will bring yet more upon Dimon, a lion upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.
¹Send the lamb to the ruler of the land from the rock in the wilderness, unto the mount of the daughter of Zion.
²And it shall be, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, the daughter of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
³Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts, discover not him that wandereth.
⁴Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab, be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler. For the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressor is consumed out of the land.
⁵And in mercy shall the throne be established; and one shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.
⁶We have heard of the arrogance of Moab—[the] very proud—of his pride, and his arrogance, and his wrath: his pratings [are] vain.
⁷Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one of them shall howl. For the foundations of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn, verily afflicted.
⁸For the fields of Heshbon languish, the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants: they reached unto Jaazer; they wandered [through] the wilderness; its shoots stretched out, they went beyond the sea.
⁹Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jaazer for the vine of Sibmah; with my tears will I water thee, Heshbon, and Elealeh, for a cry is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest.
¹⁰And taken away is joy and gladness out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyard there is no singing, neither is there shouting: the treaders tread out no wine in the presses; I have made the cry to cease.
¹¹Therefore my bowels sound like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirhares.
¹²And it shall come to pass, when Moab shall appear, shall weary himself on the high place, and enter into his sanctuary to pray, that he shall not prevail.
¹³This [is] the word which Jehovah hath spoken from of old concerning Moab.
¹⁴And now Jehovah speaketh, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be brought to nought, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be small, few, of no account. (Isa. 15:1‑16:14)

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Isa. 25:10• ¹⁰For in this mountain shall the hand of Jehovah rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down on the dunghill. (Isa. 25:10)

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Isa. 27:3• ³I Jehovah keep it; I will water it every moment: lest [any] harm it, I will keep it night and day. (Isa. 27:3)

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Ezek. 25:8‑11• ⁸Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen;
⁹therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim,
¹⁰unto the men of the east with the sons of Ammon, and will give them in possession, that the sons of Ammon may not be remembered among the nations.
¹¹And I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am Jehovah. (Ezek. 25:8‑11)

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Amos 2:1‑2• ¹Thus saith Jehovah; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
²but I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet. (Amos 2:1‑2)

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Zeph. 2:8‑11• ⁸I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
⁹Therefore as I live, saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrha, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
¹⁰This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Jehovah of hosts.
¹¹Jehovah will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, everyone from his place, even all the isles of the heathen. (Zeph. 2:8‑11)

Nebo.

Jer. 48:22‑23• ²²and upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-diblathaim;
²³and upon Kirjathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon; (Jer. 48:22‑23)

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Num. 32:3,37‑38• ³Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jaazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elaleh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
³⁷—And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elaleh, and Kirjathaim,
³⁸and Nebo, and Baal-meon (of which the names were changed), and Sibmah; and they gave other names to the cities that they built. (Num. 32:3,37‑38)

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Num. 33:47• ⁴⁷And they removed from Almon-Diblathaim, and encamped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo. (Num. 33:47)

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Isa. 15:2• ²He is gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep; Moab howleth over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads [is] baldness, every beard is cut off. (Isa. 15:2)

Misgab.

or, The high place.

J. N. Darby Translation

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Concerning Moab. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled; Kirjathaim is put to shame, it is taken; Misgabf is put to shame and dismayed.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "the fortress."

W. Kelly Translation

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Againsta Moab thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel. Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled.: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.

WK Translation Notes

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Or, "concerning," for it is not exclusively a prediction of calamity.