John Gill Commentary Jeremiah 49:28
John Gill Commentary
Jeremiah 49:28
John Gill Commentary
Jeremiah 49:28
SCRIPTURE
"Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote. Thus saith Jehovah: Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east." — Jeremiah 49:28 (ASV)
Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor A new prophecy concerning the Arabians; for Kedar was a son of Ishmael, (Genesis 25:13); whose posterity inhabited Arabia Petraea. Hazor was Petra itself, the metropolis of the country, whose king had several petty kings and kingdoms under him; for this is not the Hazor in the land of Canaan destroyed by Joshua, which had been the head of several kingdoms; and where Jabin king of Canaan afterwards reigned, (Joshua 11:10) (Judges 4:2); though some think that some of those Hazorites in Joshua's time made their escape, and fled into these parts, and built a city, and called it after the name of the former: which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the Lord: that is, "thus saith the Lord concerning", or "unto", or "against Kedar" F16 as in (Jeremiah 49:1); which the king of Babylon "has smitten"; the past for the future, common in prophetic language: or, "is about to smite" F17; would do it in a very little time; for the phrase, "thus saith the Lord", is not to be connected with what follows after, but with what goes before; though indeed the next words are the words of the Lord to the Chaldeans:
arise you, go up to Kedar; in a hostile manner; invade that country, and possess it: and spoil the men of the east; the Arabians, which lay east of Judea and Babylon: or, "the children of Kedem" F18; the same with Kedemah, another son of Ishmael, (Genesis 25:15); whose posterity dwelt still more to the east; so Kimchi; though the Targum renders it "the children of the east".
FOOTNOTES:
- F16: (rdql) "ad Cedar", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus; "contra Kedarem", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "contra Arabian", Schmidt.
- F17: (hkx) "percussurus est", Junius & Tremellius, Grotius.
- F18: (Mdq ynb) "filios Chedem", Montanus, Vatablus.