I 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.
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Gill's Exposition
I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon Two people that descended from Lot, through incest with his daughters; and are therefore mentioned together, as being of…
Barnes' Notes
I - Dionysius: “God, Who know all things, “I heard” that is, have known within Me, in My mind, not anew but from eternity, and now I shew in effect that I know it; wherefore I say that I hear, because…
Adam Clarke
I have heard the reproach of Moab - God punished them for the cruel part they had taken in the persecutions of the Jews; for when they lay under the displeasure of God, these nations insulted them in…
The Moabites and Ammonites were both of the posterity of Lot; their countries joined, and, both adjoining to Israel, they are here put together in the prophecy against them.
I. They are both charged…
Cambridge Bible
Moab and Ammon
8. I have heard the reproach of Moab It is the Lord who speaks. The "reproach" or contempt of Moab is most likely that expressed in words, not that exhibited m insulting deeds; cf. Jer…
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