Guiding Questions: Jeremiah 48

This is part of the Tanakh Yomi Project.

  1. What is Moab’s destiny?
  2. The “Pride of Moab in Heshbon” refers to what?
  3. Shall any Moabite city be spared (Jeremiah 48:8)?
  4. In Jeremiah 48:13, what action common to Moab and Israel is condemned?
  5. Why is Bet El denounced (Jeremiah 48:13)?
  6. What word appears in Jeremiah 48:17 which Jeremiah employs for his mourning scroll?
  7. Would Jeremiah 48:20 et seq. indicate a firm familiarity with Moab’s “geography”?
  8. In Jeremiah 48:35, what in particular will be eradicated in Moab?
  9. What forms of lamentation are described in Jeremiah 48:37?
  10. In Jeremiah 48:42, what is the sense of “raised himself above God”?
  11. Does Jeremiah 48:45 (seem to) echo part of Balaam’s words in Torah text?
  12. And yet, as with Israel, is there some (long range) hope (Jeremiah 48:47)?

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