Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 48:3
A voice of crying [shall be] from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.
Omit shall be. Spoiling and great destruction, literally breaking, is the cry heard from Horonaim Isa 15:5.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 3. Horonaim] Another city of Moab, near to Luhith. At this latter place the hill country of Moab commenced. “It is a place,” says Dahler, “situated upon a height between Areopolis and Zoar.”
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Another city of Moab, mentioned only in this place, and in Isa 15:5. Some think it the same with Horon, where Sanballat was born, Neh 2:10; 13:28. The prophet threatens also ruin and destruction to this city.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
3. Horonaimthe same as thecity Avara, mentioned by PTOLEMY.The word means “double caves” (Neh 2:10;Isa 15:5).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
A voice of crying [shall be] from Horonaim,…. Another city of Moab. The word is of the dual number; and, according to Kimchi and Ben Melech, there were two Horons, the upper and the lower; of this place [See comments on Isa 15:5]; this also should be destroyed; and so a cry of the inhabitants of it should be heard out of it:
spoiling, and great destruction; because the city was spoiled, and a great destruction made in the inhabitants and riches of it.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
By naming many cities, he shews that the whole land was doomed to ruin, so that no corner of it would be exempt from destruction. For the Moabites might have suffered some loss without much injury had they been moderately chastised; but the Prophet shews that they would be so reduced by the power of Nebuchadnezzar, that ruin would extend to every part of the land. We now then see why this catalogue of the cities is given.
By the voice of crying he means howling, a loud lamentation, heard far and wide. He says that the voice of crying would go forth from Horonaim, which some think was so called, because the city consisted of two parts, a higher and a lower part. He then adds, desolation and great destruction He thus explains himself, for the citizens of Horonaim would in vain cry out, because desolation and breaking or destruction would constrain them, that is, make them cry out so as to howl for the bitterness of their grief. It follows, —
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(3) Horonaimliterally, the two caverns, or the two Horonsmay imply, like other dual names of towns, that there was an upper and a lower city. It is mentioned in Isa. 15:5, but has not been identified.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
3. Horonaim Literally, two caves; a place mentioned both here and in Isa 15:5 in connexion with Luhith, and hence may be inferred to be near it. Of its precise location, however, we have no knowledge.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Jer 48:3 A voice of crying [shall be] from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.
Ver. 3. A voice of crying. ] They would not cry for their sins: they shall therefore cry for their miseries with desperate and bootless tears, and yet worse one day.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Horonaim. Probably near Zoar. Compare Isa 15:5.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
voice: Jer 4:20, Jer 4:21, Jer 47:2, Isa 15:2, Isa 15:8, Isa 16:7-11, Isa 22:4
Horonaim: Jer 48:5, Jer 48:34, Isa 15:5
Reciprocal: 1Sa 5:12 – the cry Jer 18:22 – a cry Jer 20:16 – let him Jer 51:54 – General Joe 1:12 – joy
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jer 48:3. Voice of crying means the bewailing that was to he heard in the city of Horonaim which was one of the special ones among the Moabites.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
The town of Horonaim would also experience great devastation. Moab’s children would wail because of the calamity of battle. The hills near Luhith and Horonaim would witness the cries of their inhabitants. These sites were in southwestern Moab.