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Jeremiah 49:1
1The Lord gave this message about the people of Ammon: ‘There are plenty of Israel's descendants who are still alive. They are strong enough to live in the land that is their home. So why have people who worship the god Molech moved in to the land of Gad's tribe? They should not be living in towns that belong to Gad's people.’
Jeremiah 49:1 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the Lord; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?
- New International Version (NIV)Concerning the Ammonites: This is what the Lord says: “Has Israel no sons? Has Israel no heir? Why then has Molek taken possession of Gad? Why do his people live in its towns?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Concerning the Ammonites. Thus says the Lord: "Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then has Milcom dispossessed Gad, and his people settled in its cities?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Against the Ammonites. Thus says the Lord: “Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then does Milcom inherit Gad, And his people dwell in its cities?
Context of Jeremiah 49:1
The Lord gave this message about the people of Ammon: ‘There are plenty of Israel's descendants who are still alive. They are strong enough to live in the land that is their home. So why have people who worship the god Molech moved in to the land of Gad's tribe? They should not be living in towns that belong to Gad's people.’ 2The Lord says, ‘A time will come when an army attacks Rabbah, Ammon's capital city. Its people will hear the noise of a battle. The city will become a big heap of stones. Fire will destroy the villages around it. Then the Israelites will chase out the people who had taken their land from them.’ That is what the Lord says. 3‘You people in Heshbon, cry aloud, because the enemy has destroyed Ai. Weep, you people who live in Rabbah. Dress yourselves in sackcloth, because you are so sad. Run around inside the city. The enemy will take away your idol of Molech. They will take Molech's priests and their officers to a foreign land.
Read all of Jeremiah 49Jeremiah 49:1 word by word
לִבְנֵ֣י עַמּ֗וֹן כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה הֲבָנִ֥ים אֵין֙ לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אִם־יוֹרֵ֖שׁ אֵ֣ין ל֑וֹ מַדּ֗וּעַ יָרַ֤שׁ מַלְכָּם֙ אֶת־גָּ֔ד וְעַמּ֖וֹ בְּעָרָ֥יו יָשָֽׁב׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Concerning the Ammonitesעַמּוֹן‛ammôn · AmmonH5983
- Concerning the Ammonitesבֵּןbên · son: descendant/peopleH1121
- thus saithאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
- the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
- Hath Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyiώrâ'êl · IsraelH3478
- no sonsבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
- hath he no heirיָרַשׁyârash yârêsh · to possess: possessH3423
- doth their kingמֶ֫לֶךְmelek · MilcomH4428
- inheritיָרַשׁyârash yârêsh · to possess: takeH3423
- Gadגָּדgâd · GadH1410
- and his peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
- dwellיָשַׁבyâshab · to dwellH3427
- in his citiesעִיר‛îyr ‛âr ‛âyar · cityH5892
Cross-references for Jeremiah 49:1
- Jeremiah 49:7The Lord Almighty gave this message about Edom: ‘It seems that wisdom has disappeared from Teman. Edom's clever men have no good advice. Their great ideas have gone away.
- Jeremiah 48:1The Lord Almighty, Israel's God, spoke this message about Moab: ‘Nebo city is in terrible trouble! It will soon become a heap of stones. The people of Kiriathaim city will be ashamed. Its enemies will take it for themselves. They will knock down its strong buildings, and its people will be ashamed.
- Jeremiah 25:9So I, the Lord, tell you that I will call the nations in the north to come. I will call my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, to come. I will bring them to attack this land and the people who live here. They will also attack all the nations that are around you. I will completely destroy this land, its people and all the nations around it. Their houses will become heaps of stones for ever. The land will become a terrible place. People will always see how foolish my people are.
- Jeremiah 27:3Then send a message to the kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre and Sidon. Those kings have officers who have come to see King Zedekiah of Judah here in Jerusalem.
- Genesis 19:38The younger daughter also gave birth to a son. She called him Ben-Ammi. He became the ancestor of the Ammonites.
- Deuteronomy 2:19You will go into the land of the Ammonites. Do not make them angry so that they fight against you. I will not give any of their land to you. I have already given it to Lot's descendants so that they can live there.’
- Deuteronomy 23:3Ammonite and Moabite people also cannot join with the Lord's people when they come together to worship him. Even the tenth generation of their descendants can never do this.
- 2 Chronicles 20:1After that, armies from Moab and Ammon, as well as some Meunites, attacked Jehoshaphat.
- Psalms 83:7They also come from Gebal, Ammon and Amalek, Philistia and Tyre.
- Ezekiel 21:28You, son of man, must speak my message about the Ammonites. They have insulted Israel. This is what the Almighty Lord says: A sword is ready to destroy them. It shines brightly like lightning and it is ready to kill.
- Ezekiel 25:2‘Son of man, look towards the people in Ammon. You must tell them my message to warn them.
- Amos 1:13The Lord says, ‘The people in Ammon have done more and more wrong things. So I will certainly punish them. People from Ammon fought against the people in Gilead. Ammon's people wanted to get more land for themselves. While they were killing people there, they also cut pregnant women open.
- Zephaniah 2:8The Lord of all his armies says, ‘I have heard the cruel people in the countries called Moab and Ammon. They laugh about you and they say cruel things about you, my people. They have thought that they were greater than you. They have come against you.’
- Judges 10:7The Lord became angry with the Israelites. He put them under the power of the Ammonites and the Philistines.
- Judges 11:13The Ammonite king answered Jephthah's men, ‘You Israelites came here from Egypt and you took our land on the east side of the Jordan River. You have taken for yourselves all our land from the Arnon river in the south to the Jabbok river in the north. You have taken it all, as far as the Jordan River in the west. Now give it back to us, so that we do not need to fight for it.’
- 1 Samuel 11:1One month later, Nahash went with his army to attack Jabesh, a town in Gilead region. Nahash was an Ammonite. The people in Jabesh said to him, ‘Make an agreement with us so that we will serve you.’
Commentaries on Jeremiah 49:1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1Concerning the Ammonites - This prophetic discourse was also delivered after the capture of Jerusalem. Hath Israel no sons? - no heir? - The Ammonites, it appears, took advantage of the depressed state of Israel, and invaded their territories in the tribe of Gad, hoping to make them their own for ever. But the prophet intimates that God will preserve the descendants of Israel, and will bring them back to their forfeited inheritances. Why then doth their…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1Hath Israel no sons? - i. e., the Ammonites in seizing Gilead have acted as if the country had no rightful owner. The sons of Israel were to return from captivity, and the land was their hereditary property. Their king - Milcom (and in Jeremiah 49:3), see the margin. The Ammonite god stands for the Ammonites just as Chemosh Jeremiah 48:7 is the equivalent of the Moabites. Inherit - i. e., take possession of.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1Prophecies relative to the Ammonites. (Jr 49:1-6) The Edomites. (Jr 49:7-22) The Syrians. (Jr 49:23-27) The Kedarenes. (Jr 49:28-33) The Elamites. (Jr 49:34-39) Verses 1-6 . Might often prevails against right among men, yet that might shall be controlled by the Almighty, who judges aright; and those will find themselves mistaken, who, like the Ammonites, think every thing their own on which they can lay their hands. The Lord will call men to account for…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1After the northern kingdom of Israel fell in 722 BC, the Ammonites moved into land left by the tribe of Gad. The Ammonites worshiped a fertility god named Molech, meaning "ruler," similar to Baal, meaning "master."Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-39The event of the prophecy as to Ammon preceded that as to Moab (see on Jr 49:3); and in Eze 21:26-28, the destruction of Ammon is subjoined to the deposition of Zedekiah. 1. Hath Israel ... no heir?--namely, to occupy the land of Gad, after it itself has been carried away captive by Shalmaneser. Ammon, like Moab, descended from Lot, lay north of Moab, from which it was separated by the river Arnon, and east of Reuben and Gad (Jos 13:24, 25) on the same…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Jeremiah 49
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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