John Gill Commentary


John Gill Commentary
"The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!" — Jeremiah 48:3 (ASV)
A voice of crying [shall be] from Horonaim Another city of Moab. The word is of the dual number; and, according to Kimchi and Ben Melech, there were two Horons, the upper and the lower; of this place (See Gill on Isaiah 15:5); this also should be destroyed; and so a cry of the inhabitants of it should be heard out of it.
spoiling, and great destruction ; because the city was spoiled, and a great destruction made in the inhabitants and riches of it.