Jeremiah 48:2

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Events

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• Prophecies of Jeremiahc. 628 BC

Related verses

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• Jeremiah 31:36
  “Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the LORD, would Israel’s descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me.”
• Numbers 32:37
  The Reubenites built up Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,
• Isaiah 16:14
  And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble.”
• Jeremiah 49:3
  Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.
• Jeremiah 48:42
  Moab will be destroyed as a nation because he vaunted himself against the LORD.
• Psalm 83:4–8
  …saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
• Isaiah 15:5
  My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.
• Jeremiah 48:34–35
  There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; they raise their voices to Jahaz, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim have dried up.
• Jeremiah 48:17
  Mourn for him, all you who surround him, everyone who knows his name; tell how the mighty scepter is shattered—the glorious staff!
• Jeremiah 25:17
  So I took the cup from the LORD’s hand and made all the nations drink from it, each one to whom the LORD had sent me,
• Jeremiah 48:45
  “Those who flee will stand helpless in Heshbon’s shadow, because fire has gone forth from Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It devours the foreheads of Moab and the skulls of the sons of tumult.
• Isaiah 16:8–9
  For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea.

Parallels

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Isaiah 15:1–9

Places

Heshbon: Amorite city conquered by Moses, allotted to Reuben· Madmen: A place in Moab threatened with destruction· Moab: Ancient kingdom east of the Dead Sea in Jordan

Glossary

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Bible, Manuscripts and Text of the (Old Testament)· Book of Jeremiah· Heshbon· Kiriathaim· Madmen· Moab, Moabites· Nations· Nebo (Place)

Topics

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Heshbon: Prophecy Concerning