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A "Sodom" Judgment
Commentators explain that comparing Edom's fate to Sodom and Gomorrah is a powerful biblical metaphor. It signifies a judgment that is total, final, and irreversible for the nation. Scholar John Calvin notes this is a type of prophetic "hyperbole" used to shock people out of spiritual apathy and convey the absolute severity of God's wrath against persistent sin.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 49:7–22
18th Century
Theologian
Edom stretched along the south of Judah from the border of Moab on the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean and the Arabian deserts, and held the same rel…
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 49:18
19th Century
Bishop
Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof. —The destruction of the two cities named had become proverbial, as in Isaiah 1:9;[Ref…
John Calvin
On Jeremiah 49:18
16th Century
Theologian
He expresses in greater detail what he had briefly included in one word: he had said that Edom would become a waste; but he now shows what…
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John Gill
On Jeremiah 49:18
17th Century
Pastor
As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah Which was so sudden and general, that nothing was left, or any spared; so shoul…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 49:7–22
17th Century
Minister
The Edomites were old enemies to the Israel of God. But their day is now at hand; it is foretold, not only to warn them, but for the sake of the Is…