Jeremiah 49:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ Concerning the Ammonites. Thus says the Lord: Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then has Milcom dispossessed Gad and his people settled in its towns?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ CONCERNING and against the Ammonites: Thus says the Lord: Has Israel no sons [to return after their captivity and claim the territory of Gad east of the Jordan which the Ammonites have taken over]? Has [Israel's Gad] no heir? Why then has Milcom [the god the Ammonites call their king] dispossessed and inherited Gad, and [why do] his people dwell in Gad's cities?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Of the children of Ammon. Thus saith Jehovah: Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth Malcam possess Gad, and his people dwell in the cities thereof?

Common English Bible

¹ Concerning the Ammonites, the LORD proclaims: Doesn’t Israel have children? Aren’t there heirs to his land? Why then has Milcom taken over Gad? Why have his people settled in its towns?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Against the sons of Ammon. Thus says the Lord: "Does Israel have no sons? Or is there no heir for him? Then why has Milcom possessed the inheritance of Gad, and why have his people lived in his cities?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ Against the children of Ammon. Thus saith the Lord: Hath Israel no sons? Or hath he no heir? Why then hath Melchom inherited Gad, and his people dwelt in his cities?

Jeremiah 49:1 Cross References

Genesis 19:38

The younger also bore a son and named him Ben-ammi; he is the ancestor of the Ammonites to this day.

2 Kings 10:33

from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the Wadi Arnon, that is, Gilead and Bashan.

2 Kings 24:2

He sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, bands of the Arameans, bands of the Moabites, and bands of the Ammonites; he sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by his servants the prophets.

2 Chronicles 20:1

After this the Moabites and Ammonites, and with them some of the Meunites, came against Jehoshaphat for battle.

2 Chronicles 20:23

For the Ammonites and Moab attacked the inhabitants of Mount Seir, destroying them utterly, and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they all helped to destroy one another.

Nehemiah 2:19

But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they mocked and ridiculed us, saying, “What is this that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

Nehemiah 4:7

But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the gaps were beginning to be closed, they were very angry

Psalm 83:7

Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

Psalm 9:6

The enemies have vanished in everlasting ruins; their cities you have rooted out; the very memory of them has perished.

Jeremiah 12:14

Thus says the Lord concerning all my evil neighbors who touch the heritage that I have given my people Israel to inherit: I am about to pluck them up from their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.

Jeremiah 25:21

Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites;

Jeremiah 25:9

I am going to send for all the tribes of the north, says the Lord, even for King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all these nations around; I will utterly destroy them and make them an object of horror and of hissing and an everlasting disgrace.

Jeremiah 27:3

Send them to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the Ammonites, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon by the hand of the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to King Zedekiah of Judah.

Jeremiah 48:1

Concerning Moab. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Alas for Nebo, it is laid waste! Kiriathaim is put to shame; it is taken; the fortress is put to shame and broken down;

Jeremiah 49:23

Concerning Damascus. Hamath and Arpad are confounded, for they have heard bad news; they melt in fear; they are troubled like the sea that cannot be quiet.

Jeremiah 49:28

Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor that King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon defeated. Thus says the Lord: Rise up; advance against Kedar! Destroy the people of the east!

Jeremiah 49:7

Concerning Edom. Thus says the Lord of hosts: Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

Ezekiel 21:25

As for you, vile, wicked prince of Israel, you whose day has come, the time of final punishment,

Ezekiel 25:1

The word of the Lord came to me:

Zephaniah 1:5

those who bow down on the roofs to the host of the heavens, those who bow down and swear to the Lord but also swear by Milcom,

Numbers 1:24

The descendants of Gad, their lineage, in their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and up, everyone able to go to war:

Deuteronomy 2:19

When you approach the frontier of the Ammonites, do not harass them or engage them in battle, for I will not give the land of the Ammonites to you as a possession, because I have given it to the descendants of Lot.’

Deuteronomy 23:3

“No Ammonite or Moabite shall come into the assembly of the Lord even to the tenth generation. None of their descendants shall come into the assembly of the Lord forever,

Deuteronomy 23:4

because they did not meet you with food and water on your journey out of Egypt and because they hired against you Balaam son of Beor, from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.