w yore think tis Prophecy was fulfilled upon the returtr of the -ws out of Babylon, when the Fews had inhabired the Lard of Moab, Zeph. 2. 9. but this doth not ſeem to be the brinoins my 2ain the Captivity of Mob, bur of Pudth ; befides in char place it 15 ſaid, taat Moab fhoul4 be 3s Sodomgand the childrey of ug Gomorrah, even the breedirg of Neles and Salt pizs, and a peretrna; le{olartion. It 1s therefore rather to be underſtood of 2 ipiritual reduction of them, by cai!ing ſome of them under the Kino. dom of M«/z25 as the Fea:/5 DoCtors themſelves interpret its Some think this a promile racher relpedting the Fews than the Moabires. It is taid, Ver. 2. 9, That che remnant of the Lords People ſhould poſſels Mcab, and Yer. 11. that all the I/les of the Deathen ſhould worſhip God. 2 Thele laſt words are doubtle(s ro be interpreted rather asa concluſion of this Prophecy againſt Mozb than (as lome would haye it) a limitation of the time how long this Jadgment on Mob ſhould endure, as if th; far, were as much as zh:45 long.
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eefirores them, 2 Sam. It. 1. FJeboſaphar ailo, and FJithum fonght with them, 2 Chron. 20.1. and 27. 5. During the Jong | that there weie Wars betwixt the Fews and Ammo- mire, Co Land of Gad and Reuben which lay beyond Jordan, If tel! into the hands of the Syrians , Moabites and Ammonttes j (wbence it is that in the former Chapter we read of many C1i1es ll of Mob, which were upon the diviſion of Canz2n, in the Lot of 3 Gd and Renben, ) This Prophecy cannot be well underſtood with- out a previous underſtanding this. b Hence it is that the Prophet 129ich, Path I{ract ns Sons ? God had given that Country of Gilead to 2funifſos, and Reuten and Gad, Numb. 52.39. 7']. 13-29, 30+ c and a5 1:15 Eſtates onghtto delcended to their Heirs, lo tnis | 18 Land.h 11d have continued and deicended to thePoſteriry of thele j Tribes, but the Ammonites had by force taken away Aa part; and Zelcom polefſed it. Zfelcom is their Ring, or the name of their 140! to whom they gave the Name of King,as other Heathens cal- | | Jed their Idol Bal, that is Loid, 4 And the People of the Ring Y: of the Anminitcs, or of Melcom the Ido] of the Ammonitas, '* dwelt in the Cities belonging to Gad, which was one of the | Tribes cf 1{-2el,
2 Therefore behold, the days come, faith the LORD. thar 1 will caufe an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah e of the Ammonires, and 1t ſhall be adeſo- late hean, and her daughters ſhall be burnt with fre: then fall Ifracl be heirs unto them that were his hcirs, faich the LORD f.
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