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Jeremiah 49:3

King James Version (KJV)

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Jeremiah 49:3

Verse 3 of 39

Scripture focus

Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, [and] his priests and his princes together.

Jeremiah 49:3 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Jeremiah 49:3

Theological / Devotional

Heshbon. See on ch. 48:2. The Moabite city is called upon to lament what has already happened to Ai, perhaps because it forebodes her doom also.

Ai. This is the only reference to an Ai in Transjordan. The town was probably near Heshbon.

Hedges. Heb. gederoth, a word used elsewhere of sheepfolds (see Num. 32:16, 36; 1 Sam. 24:3; Zeph. 2:6), which were fenced enclosures in the open fields. Jeremiah’s thought here is evidently that the people of Ammon will forsake their conquered cities and seek refuge in the open country in these corrals.

Their king. Or, Milcom (see on v. 1).

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