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Jeremiah 48:1-47

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

EXPOSITION

This prophecy is so full of repetitions that the question has naturally arisen whether the most prominent of these may not be due to interpolation. For instance:

1. Jeremiah 48:29-38 recur in Isaiah 16:6-10; Isaiah 15:4, Isaiah 15:5, Isaiah 15:6; Isaiah 16:12, Isaiah 16:11; Isaiah 15:2, Isaiah 15:3; not, indeed, without many peculiarities, and those peculiarities are so striking, and so little in harmony with Jeremiah's usual mode of using his predecessor's writings, that some have held that verses 29-38 were inserted by one of Jeremiah's readers.

2. Verses 43, 44 so closely resemble Isaiah 24:17, Isaiah 24:18, and cohere so loosely with the context, that interpolation is a not unreasonable hypothesis.

3. Verses 45, 46, which are omitted in the Septuagint, are evidently based on Numbers 21:28, Numbers 21:29.

4. Verses 40, 41 closely resemble Jeremiah 49:22; the portion corresponding to that passage is omitted in the Septuagint.

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