Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 48:8
And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.
8. the valley ] the valley of the Jordan towards the Dead Sea.
the plain ] the tableland of Moab.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The valley – The lowlands on the east bank of the Jordan, and at the top of the Dead Sea.
The plain – An upland pasture; it answers very much to downs: so in Jer 48:21.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
That is, all the parts of the country of Moab, and all the cities, as well those that stood upon hills and mountainous places, as those that stood in valleys; because or for the Lord had said it (for so the particle we translate as is bettea translated).
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
8. the valley . . . shallperishthat is, those dwelling in the valley.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And the spoiler shall come upon every city,…. That is, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and his army. The Targum is, the spoilers, who came against and took every city of Moab, and wasted them. Josephus n makes particular mention of Nebuchadnezzar subduing the Ammonites and Moabites:
and no city shall escape; the spoiler, and destruction by him:
the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the Lord hath spoken; not only the cities, and the inhabitants of them; but the inhabitants of the valleys and plains, as the Targum paraphrases it, should be destroyed; and also the corn that grew upon them, and the flocks and herds that grazed there, exactly as the Lord had foretold.
n Antiqu. l. 10. c. 9. sect. 7.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
He confirms the previous verse; nor ought he to be deemed too wordy, for this prophecy was not announced, that it might cherish the hope and patience of the faithful only for a few days; but it was necessary for them to rest dependent for a long time on this promise, which God had given them many years before. This, then, is the reason why the Prophet confirms at large a truth in itself sufficiently clear. Come, he says, shall a waster to all the cities It now appears more clearly why he mentioned some of the cities, though, as we shall see, they were many, even that the Israelites might know that all the land of Moab was to be given up to desolation: Nor shall a city escape, for destroyed shall be the valley and the plain, as Jehovah has spoken It follows, —
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(8) The valley also shall perish . . .The cities of the plain are enumerated in Jer. 48:21-24. They belonged to the Arabah, the sunken valley of the Jordan, the plains of Moab of Num. 22:1; Deu. 3:10; Deu. 4:43. The valley here is not connected with anything that helps us to identify it, but it may have been that of the Arnon, or the words may be used generically for every valley and every plain.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
8. The valley of the Jordan in Moab, and the plain or level upland stretching between the Arnon and Heshbon, shall be overrun with this destruction. The last is called repeatedly “the fields of Moab” in Ruth and elsewhere.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Jer 48:8. And the spoiler shall come That is Nebuchadrezzar. This character is frequently given him in Scripture. See ch. Jer 51:48 and Isa 33:1; Isa 33:24.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Jer 48:8 And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.
Ver. 8. And the spoiler shall come, ] i.e., Nebuchadnezzar.
As the Lord hath spoken.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
the spoiler: Jer 48:18, Jer 6:26, Jer 15:8, Jer 25:9, Jer 51:56
and no: Jer 48:20-25, Eze 25:9
Reciprocal: 2Ki 7:7 – they arose Isa 16:4 – for Jer 48:12 – wanderers Jer 48:15 – spoiled Jer 48:21 – the plain Jer 48:32 – the spoiler
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jer 48:8. The spoiler means one who would strip the country of its goods, and in this case it was to be the Babylonians. City and valley are named together to indicate the completeness of the desolation as it would affect the land.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
All the cities, the valley, and the plateau-in short, the whole nation-would fall before the coming enemy, as Yahweh predicted. "The valley" was the Jordan Valley in which Moab had holdings, and "the plateau" refers to the tableland from Aroer northward to Heshbon (cf. Jos 13:15-17). Most of Moab stood on this fertile plateau.
"For defense, Moab had towering cliffs, and for wealth, her enormous flocks of sheep [cf. 2Ki 3:4]; riches that were self-renewing. But the shelter of these things had bred more complacency than character." [Note: Kidner, p. 142.]