Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
PREDICTIONS AS TO AMMON, IDUMEA, DAMASCUS, KEDAR, HAZOR, AND ELAM. (Jer. 49:1-39)
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 (Joshua 13:24-25) on the same side of Jordan. It seized on Gad when Israel was carried captive. Judah was by the right of kindred the heir, not Ammon; but Ammon joined with Nebuchadnezzar against Judah and Jerusalem (II Kings 24:2) and exulted over its fall (Psalms 83:4-8; Zephaniah 2:8-9). It had already, in the days of Jeroboam, in Israel's affliction, tried to "enlarge its border" (II Kings 14:26; Amos 1:1, Amos 1:13).
their king— (Amos 1:15); referring to Melchom, their tutelary idol (Zephaniah 1:5); and so the Septuagint reads it here as a proper name (I Kings 11:5, I Kings 11:33; II Kings 23:13). The Ammonite god is said to do what they do, namely, occupy the Israelite land of Gad. To Jehovah, the theocratic "King" of Israel, the land belonged of right; so that their Molech or Melchom was a usurper-king.
his people—the people of Melchom, "their king." Compare "people of Chemosh," Jeremiah 48:46.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 49:1:
Jeremiah 23:9
Jeremiah 47:7
Ezekiel 21:28
Ezekiel 25:3
Amos 1:13
Zephaniah 2:8
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