Now, God's judgement is on the Nations.....they might think they are getting away with something, but God sees everything. Carchemish is a battle that keeps getting repeated..it happened in 605 BC.....Babylon and Egypt passes world leadership from Egypt to Babylon. It elevates Nebuchadnezzar to power...major poor strategy for Israel to turn to Egypt. Look at 46:17...it is now 589 BC and Pharaoh Hophra is marching at King Zedekiah's invitation...Babylon doesn't back down and Hophra retreats. You remember that Jeremiah predicted Hophra's death in our last read...this happens in 20 years.....God is punishing His people to bring them back to him....God isn't being mean...there is a purpose in His judgement and He is a just God.
The Philistines are next in God's judgement and then Moab(remember that Moab is the result of Lot's incestuous relationship with his daughter?)....apparently putting salt on a city was a symbolic at to show that it was totally destroyed...Chemosh is the Moabite god in which sacrifice of children was required...the Lord hates this.
This is similar to what Isaiah prophesied about God's judgment on the Nations...
Look what comes up from the depths of the sea.
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