Jeremiah 48


Jeremiah 48 is the forty-eighth chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains prophecies attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. This chapter is part of a series of "oracles against foreign nations", consisting of chapters 46 to 51. In particular, chapters 46-49 focus on Judah's neighbors. This chapter contains the poetic oracles against Moab.

Text

The original text was written in Hebrew. This chapter is divided into 47 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis, the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets, Aleppo Codex, Codex Leningradensis. Some fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, i.e., 2QJer, with extant verses 2‑4, 7, 25‑39, 41‑45.
There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus, Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Marchalianus. The Septuagint version doesn't contain a part which are generally known to be verses 45-46 in Christian Bibles.

Parashot

The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex. Jeremiah 48 is a part of the prophecies in Jeremiah 46-49 in the section of Prophecies against the nations . : open parashah; : closed parashah.

Verse numbering

The order of chapters and verses of the Book of Jeremiah in the English Bibles, Masoretic Text, and Vulgate, in some places differs from that in the Septuagint according to Rahlfs or Brenton. The following table is taken with minor adjustments from Brenton's Septuagint, page 971.
The order of Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint/Scriptural Study based on Alfred Rahlfs' Septuaginta differs in some details from Joseph Ziegler's critical edition in Göttingen LXX. Swete's Introduction mostly agrees with Rahlfs' edition.
Hebrew, Vulgate, EnglishRahlfs' LXX
48:1-4531:1-45
48:45-47n/a
41:1-1848:1-18

Structure

This chapter seems to be a sequence of three parts: verses 1-13; 14-38, and 39-45.

Verse 1

"Nebo" is identified with modern Khirbet Mekhayyet, southwest of Heshbon. The Septuagint omits the words 'is shamed'.

Verse 7b

Chemosh was the national god of the Moabites. The downfall of Chemosh is repeated in verses 13 and 46.

Verse 34

The same sentiment is expressed in in the prophet Isaiah's comparable oracle on Moab.

Jewish

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