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No Corner Untouched
John Calvin explains that by naming specific cities like Horonaim, Jeremiah emphasizes the complete and total nature of God's judgment against Moab. The ruin would not be a minor setback but a comprehensive desolation that would extend to every part of the land, leaving no place of refuge. This serves as a sober reminder of the thoroughness of divine justice.
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 48:3
18th Century
Theologian
Omit "shall be." Spoiling and great destruction, literally breaking, is the cry heard from Horonaim (Isaiah 15:5).
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 48:3
19th Century
Bishop
Horonaim —literally, the two caverns, or the two Horons—may imply, like other dual names of towns, that there was an uppe…
John Calvin
On Jeremiah 48:3
16th Century
Theologian
By naming many cities, he shows that the whole land was doomed to ruin, so that no corner of it would be exempt from destruction. For the Moabites …
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John Gill
On Jeremiah 48:3
17th Century
Pastor
A voice of crying [shall be] from Horonaim Another city of Moab. The word is of the dual number; and, according to Kimchi…