Jeremiah 48:44
He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that getteth up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon it, even upon Moab, the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
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Gill's Exposition
They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon, because of the force,.... Heshbon was a strong city in the land of Moab, to which many of the Moabites betook themselves in this time of their…
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
Co. considers "for I will bring … saith the Lord" to be genuinely Jeremianic.
the year of their visitation Cp. Jer 11:23; Jer 23:12.
45 47 are wanting in the LXX and are pretty clearly an insertion.…
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