John Gill Commentary Jeremiah 48:3

John Gill Commentary

Jeremiah 48:3

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
John Gill
John Gill

John Gill Commentary

Jeremiah 48:3

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
SCRIPTURE

"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.