 The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible Jeremiah 48:12
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord…
This
being their case, they should not continue in it; a change would be
made, and that in a very short time, as there was; for, according to
Josephus F16, it was about five years after the destruction of
Jerusalem that the Moabites were subdued by the king of Babylon:
that I will send unto him wanderers that shall cause him to wander;
the
Chaldeans, who wandered out of their own country to Moab, directed by
the providence of God to come there to do his work; and who, at first,
might be treated by the Moabites with contempt, as vagrants, but would
soon be made to know that they would cause them to wander; or would
remove them out of their own country into other lands, particularly
Babylon, to be vagrants there. The word may be rendered "travellers"
{q}; and signifies such that walk with great strength of body, in a
stately way, and with great agility and swiftness; in which manner the
Chaldeans are described as coming to Moab, and who should cause them to
travel back with them in all haste; see word in (Isaiah 63:1) . The Targum
renders it "spoilers"; according to the metaphor of wine used in
(Jeremiah 48:11) , it may signify a sort of persons that cause wine to go,
or empty it from one vessel to another; such as we call "wine coopers";
and this agrees with what follows:
and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles;
depopulate the
cities of Moab; destroy the inhabitants of them, and make them barren
and empty of men. The Targum is,
``I will send spoilers upon them, and they shall spoil them,
and empty their substance, and consume the good of their
land;''
see (Jeremiah 48:8) . The Septuagint version is, "they shall cut in pieces his
horns"; which, as Origen F18 interprets them, were a kind of cups
anciently used; for in former times they drank out of horns, either of
oxen, or other animals; and Pliny F19 says that the northern people
used to drink out of the horns of buffaloes, a creature larger than a
bull, and which the Muscovites call "thur"; the same is asserted by
Athenaeus F20, and others, that the horns of beasts were drinking
vessels before cups were invented.
FOOTNOTES:
F16 Antiqu. l. 10. c. 9. sect. 7.
F17 (Myeu) "viatores", Tigurine version.
F18 Apud Drusium in fragmentis in loc.
F19 Nat. Hist. l. 11. e. 37.
F20 Deipnosoph. l. 11. p. 235. Rhodigin. 1. 30.
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Gill, John. "Commentary on Jeremiah 48:12". "The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible". <http://classic.studylight.org/com/geb/view.cgi?book=jer&chapter=048&verse=012>. 1999.
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