5And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
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Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.
And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Here, I. The prophet is ordered to address himself to the Ammonites, in the name of the Lord Jehovah the God of Israel , who is also the God of the whole earth. But what can Chemosh, the god of the children of Ammon, say, in answer to it? He is bidden to set his face against the Ammonites , for he is God’s representative as a prophet, and thus he must signify that God set his face against them , f…
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