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- Jeremiah
- Chapter 48
- Verse 41
Jeremiah 48:41
Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people,.... For some time, not always; since the captivity of Moab is promised to be returned, Jer 48:47; or from being such a people as they had been,…
The destruction is here further prophesied of very largely and with a great copiousness and variety of expression, and very pathetically and in moving language, designed not only to awaken them by a…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Kerioth See on Jer 48:20-24. But, because of the parallel expression "strong holds" in the next clause, the word may simply mean cities.
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