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Jer. 49:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Concerning μthez Ammonites, thus saith the Lord; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth νtheir king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his citiesc?

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Ezek. 21:28• ²⁸And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus speaketh the Lord Jehovah concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and thou shalt say, A sword, a sword is drawn; for the slaughter is it furbished, that it may consume, that it may glitter: (Ezek. 21:28)

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Ezek. 25:2• ²Son of man, set thy face against the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them; (Ezek. 25:2)

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Amos 1:13‑15• ¹³Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border.
¹⁴And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind.
¹⁵And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith Jehovah. (Amos 1:13‑15)

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Zeph. 2:8‑10• ⁸I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, wherewith they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
⁹Therefore, as I live, saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall certainly be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt-pits, and a perpetual desolation; the remnant of my people shall spoil them, and the residue of my nation shall possess them.
¹⁰This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Jehovah of hosts. (Zeph. 2:8‑10)

μ

or, against.

ν

or, Melcom.

c

Psa. 9:6• ⁶O enemy! destructions are ended for ever.--Thou hast also destroyed cities, even the remembrance of them hath perished. (Psa. 9:6)

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Ammon; Ammonites; Children of Ammon,

Gad,

Heir,

Israel,

King

Cross References

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1-5: The judgment of the Ammonites.

6: Their restoration.

7-22: The judgment of Edom;

23-27: of Damascus;

28-29: of Kedar;

30-33: of Hazor;

34-38: and of Elam.

39: The restoration of Elam.

A.M. 3421.

B.C. 583.

Concerning.

or, Against.

Jer. 49:7,23,28• ⁷Concerning Edom. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Is there no more wisdom in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom spent?
²³Concerning Damascus. Hamath is put to shame, and Arpad; for they have heard evil tidings, they are melted away: there is distress on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
²⁸Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote. Thus saith Jehovah: Arise, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east. (Jer. 49:7,23,28)

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Jer. 48:1• ¹Concerning 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; Misgab is put to shame and dismayed. (Jer. 48:1)

Ammonites.

Jer. 25:9,21• ⁹behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and I will send to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual wastes.
²¹Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon; (Jer. 25:9,21)

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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 children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers that come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah. (Jer. 27:3)

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Gen. 19:38• ³⁸And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; the same is the father of the children of Ammon to this day. (Gen. 19:38)

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Deut. 2:19• ¹⁹and come near over against the children of Ammon; thou shalt not distress them nor attack them; for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon a possession; for unto the children of Lot have I given it as a possession. (Deut. 2:19)

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Deut. 23:3• ³An Ammonite or Moabite shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah; even their tenth generation shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah for ever; (Deut. 23:3)

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2 Chron. 20:1,23• ¹And it came to pass after this that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them certain of the Maonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
²³And the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, to exterminate and destroy them; and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another. (2 Chron. 20:1,23)

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Psa. 83:7• ⁷Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia, with the inhabitants of Tyre; (Psa. 83:7)

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Ezek. 21:28‑32• ²⁸And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus speaketh the Lord Jehovah concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and thou shalt say, A sword, a sword is drawn; for the slaughter is it furbished, that it may consume, that it may glitter:
²⁹whilst they see vanity for thee, whilst they divine a lie unto thee, to lay thee upon the necks of the wicked that are slain, whose day is come at the time of the iniquity of the end.
³⁰Restore it to its sheath. I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy birth.
³¹And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow upon thee the fire of my wrath, and give thee into the hand of brutish men, skilful to destroy.
³²Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt not be remembered: for I Jehovah have spoken. (Ezek. 21:28‑32)

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Ezek. 25:2‑10• ²Son of man, set thy face against the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them;
³and say unto the children of Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord Jehovah. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity:
⁴therefore behold, I will give thee to the children of the east for a possession, and they shall set their encampments in thee, and make their dwellings in thee; they shall eat thy fruits, and they shall drink thy milk.
⁵And I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels, and the children of Ammon a couching-place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
⁶For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast clapped the hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the despite of thy soul against the land of Israel;
⁷therefore behold, I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and will give thee for a spoil to the nations; and I will cut thee off from the peoples, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee, and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.
⁸Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the nations,
⁹therefore behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities even to the last of them, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kirjathaim,
¹⁰unto the children of the east, with the land of the children of Ammon; and I will give it them for a possession, that the children of Ammon may not be remembered among the nations: (Ezek. 25:2‑10)

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Amos 1:13‑15• ¹³Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border.
¹⁴And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind.
¹⁵And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith Jehovah. (Amos 1:13‑15)

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Zeph. 2:8‑11• ⁸I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, wherewith they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
⁹Therefore, as I live, saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall certainly be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt-pits, and a perpetual desolation; the remnant of my people shall spoil them, and the residue of my nation 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 all the isles of the nations shall worship him, every one from his place. (Zeph. 2:8‑11)

their king.

or, Melcom.

Judg. 10:7‑8• ⁷And the anger of Jehovah was hot against Israel, and he sold him into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the children of Ammon.
⁸And they oppressed and crushed the children of Israel in that year; eighteen years they oppressed all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead. (Judg. 10:7‑8)

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Judg. 11:13‑15• ¹³And the king of the children of Ammon said to the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even unto the Jabbok and unto the Jordan; and now restore it peaceably.
¹⁴And Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon,
¹⁵and said to him, Thus saith Jephthah: Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon. (Judg. 11:13‑15)

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1 Sam. 11:1‑3• ¹And Nahash the Ammonite came up and encamped against Jabesh-Gilead. And all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.
²And Nahash the Ammonite said to them, On this condition will I treat with you, that I thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.
³And the elders of Jabesh said to him, Allow us seven days, and we will send messengers into all the districts of Israel; and if there be no man to deliver us, we will come out to thee. (1 Sam. 11:1‑3)

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2 Kings 10:33• ³³from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, both Gilead and Bashan. (2 Kings 10:33)

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2 Kings 24:2• ²And Jehovah sent against him the bands of the Chaldeans, and the bands of the Syrians, and the bands of the Moabites, and the bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spoke through his servants the prophets. (2 Kings 24:2)

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Neh. 2:19• ¹⁹And Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobijah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it; and they mocked us and despised us, and said, What is this thing which ye do? will ye rebel against the king? (Neh. 2:19)

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Neh. 4:7• ⁷And it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobijah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the walls of Jerusalem were being repaired, that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth, (Neh. 4:7)

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Neh. 13:1‑2• ¹On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and there was found written in it that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;
²because they had not met the children of Israel with bread and with water, and had hired Balaam against them, to curse them; but our God turned the curse into blessing. (Neh. 13:1‑2)

cities.

Psa. 9:6• ⁶O enemy! destructions are ended for ever.--Thou hast also destroyed cities, even the remembrance of them hath perished. (Psa. 9:6)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Concerning the children of Ammon. Thus saith Jehovah: Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? Why is Malcamg heirh of Gad, and his people dwell in the cities thereof?

JND Translation Notes

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g

Or "their king"; but it may be another form of Milcom, the divinity of the Ammonites. see Amos 1.15; 5.26.

h

Elsewhere "possessor."