But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he will not be able to hide himself. His offspring is destroyed, with his brothers and his neighbors; and he is no more.
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But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he will not be able to hide himself. His offspring is destroyed, with his brothers and his neighbors; and he is no more.
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But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.
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But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself; his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.
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Passages linked to Jeremiah 49:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 17:14 At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.
- Malachi 1:3-4 but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.” Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;” Yahweh of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever.”
- Psalms 37:28 For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
- Psalms 37:35-36 I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil. But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
- Isaiah 14:20-22 You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be named forever. Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities. “I will rise up against them,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son’s son,” says Yahweh.
- Isaiah 45:3 I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who call you by your name, even the God of Israel.
- Jeremiah 23:24 Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.
- Amos 9:3 Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.
- Obadiah 1:9 Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.
- Romans 9:13 Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain As to the beginning of the verse, the meaning…
As to the beginning of the verse, the meaning of the Prophet is not obscure; for he means that such would be the destruction of the people of Edom, that they would be spoiled by enemies, that they would become wholly naked. But he speaks in the name of God: Behold, I uncover Esau, and make open his hidden things By hidden things he means treasures, as it is evident from Obadiah. He then says that he would so expose the Idumeans to plunder, that there would be no hidden thing but that their enemies would seize and plunder it. This is the meaning.
He then confirms what I have said, that this plundering would not be like grape-gathering, or theft, or common robbery, because God would altogether empty the Idumeans of all that they had, even of all that they hid in the ground.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jer 49:10 But I have made Esau bare, I…
Jer 49:10 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he [is] not.
Ver. 10. I have uncovered his secret places.] Where he had hid himself, or his treasures, those sinews of war.
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And he is not,] scil., Any more a state or a people. Time shall triumph over him, so that he shall but live by fame.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain But the Edomites should be left bare; and though…
But the Edomites should be left bare; and though they sought to hide themselves in secret places, yet God would there find them out, and there should be no places sufficient to hide them. All their children should be destroyed, and the Moabites their kinsmen, and the Philistines their neighbours, should be ruined as well as they.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But I have made Esau bare,.... By the hand…
But I have made Esau bare,.... By the hand of the Chaldeans; stripped him of everything that is valuable; of his cities, castles, villages, people, wealth, and treasure:
I have uncovered his secret places; where either his substance was hid, or his people; these were made known to their enemies, who seized on both:
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and he shall not be able to hide himself; even in his deep places, in the caves and dens of the earth, but his enemy shall find him out:
his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours; his children, as the Targum; and his brethren, the Ammonites and Moabites; and his neighbours, the Philistines; or as many as were with him, and belonged unto him:
and he is not: his kingdom is not; he is no more a people and nation, but all destroyed by the sword, or carried captive; or there should be none left of his brethren, and neighbours, and friends, to say to him what follows: "leave thy fatherless children", &c. So Kimchi and Ben Melech say this phrase is in connection with the Jer 49:11.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 10. I have made Esau bare] I have…
Verse 10. I have made Esau bare] I have stripped him of all defence, and have discovered his hiding-places to his enemies.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Secrets, or lurking holes, ver. 8. (Haydock) --- God…
Secrets, or lurking holes, ver. 8. (Haydock) --- God permits the Chaldeans to plunder all. --- Brethren; Israelites. --- Neighbours; Moab, &c.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Edom became politically extinct after the time of the…
Edom became politically extinct after the time of the Romans.
uncovered his secret places--where he hid himself (Jer 49:8) and his treasures (Isa 45:3). I have caused that nothing should be so hidden as that the conqueror should not find it.
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brethren--Ammon.
neighbours--the Philistines.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 10. Parallel with Oba_1:6, which (as 8; see on…
10. Parallel with Oba_1:6, which (as 8; see on Jer_49:7 above) is probably an insertion from this passage, where it fits the context much better; especially if, with mg. we introduce, as we should, the v. by For.
his secret places] the retreats and fastnesses of Edom.
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his seed … he is not] For metrical reasons we should shorten this part of the v., reading, e.g. with Co. (who points out that “his seed is spoiled” is inconsistent with Jer_49:11), “he is spoiled and is not.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain But, etc.; rather, for. The verse gives the reason…
But, etc.; rather, for. The verse gives the reason why the destruction is so complete. "It is I, Jehovah, who made Esau bare," etc. "Esau," i.e. Edom. (Gen_25:30) His seed; i.e. the Edomites. His brethren, or kinsmen; i.e. the Amalekites. (Gen_36:12) His neighbours; i.e. the tribes of Dedan, Terns, and Buz. (Jer_25:23)
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