Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 49:2

2 Therefore behold, the dayes come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarum of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites, and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burnt with fire: then shall Israel be heirs unto them tha[illegible: 1 letter] were his heirs, saith the LORD .

Because the Ammonites had violently seized upon some part of the Iews land, and (as we have it Amos 1.13, 14.) cruelly ript up the women with child in Gilead, that they might enlarge their border. God threatens a War to Rabbah, Amos 1.14. calls it a fire which should make Rabbah an he[illegible: 1 letter]p. Of this Rabbah, as the head City of the Ammonites, we read, Deut. 3.11. Ios. 13.25. and 15.60. It was there, where in Davids time, Vriah was slain, 2 Sam. 11.1, 17. chap. 12.26. It is threatned by Ieremiah in this Chapter, and Ezek. 25.5. and Amos 1.13, 14. we read not, how or when this Prophesie was fulfilled, whether by the Maccabees, 1 Mac. 5.6. or rather after the coming of Christ, when most of these Nations were destroyed.

God threatens not only their metropolis which was Rabbah their Mother City, but all the other Cities belonging to the Ammonites which were as it were daughters to Rabbah. But how the last clause of this Prophesie was ever fulfilled if it were not in the time of the Macchabees I cannot understand, for though they were swallowed up afterward by the Roman Empire, yet Israel being also subdued by them, and scattered into all parts, it is not likely that many of them were suffered to abide in any considerable numbers in a Countrey so near their own.