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and enslavement of Judah. The Ammonites rejoiced over Judah’s calamity, so the LORD sent a word of rebuke and judgment upon them and the days of their own downfall was about to be revealed. Amos 1:13-15 states: “Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border: but I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind: and their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the LORD.”

There are two cities in the Old Covenant name Rabbah (Rabbath). First there was one located in the hills of Judah (Joshua 15:60) and another in Ammon (Deuteronomy 3:11; 2 Samuels 12:26); the latter was judged by the LORD and condemned. This judgment was extremely severe because the race of the Ammonites would eventually become extinct (Jeremiah 49:1-2).

Verses 8-11

“Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen; Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim, unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations. And I will execute judgment upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the LORD.”

The Moabites were next to be judged by the LORD. Seir however, is actually a mountainous region where the Edomites settled and they, too, would be subject to a penalty; but in these verses the LORD lays out the punishment for Moab. Like the Ammonites, the Moabites chastisement was similar because through war and oppression they also would be totally destroyed by the men of the east who were the Babylonians. The reason for this conjecture is based on three facts. First, the heathen nations found it quite amusing that the city of Jerusalem was seized by the Babylonians and its citizens enslaved. It can therefore be assumed that those who hated Israel occupied territories in close proximity to Jerusalem and were known to have expressed