George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 25:12
Punish. Literally, visit upon. (Challoner) --- Cyrus overturned the monarchy, and the city was ruined by degrees, Isaias xiii., and xiv., and xxi. 1., and Ezechiel i. 5. (Calmet)
Punish. Literally, visit upon. (Challoner) --- Cyrus overturned the monarchy, and the city was ruined by degrees, Isaias xiii., and xiv., and xxi. 1., and Ezechiel i. 5. (Calmet)
Verse Jeremiah 25:12. _AND THAT NATION_] הגוי ההוא _haggoi hahu_. Dr. _Blayney_ contends that this should be translated _his nation_, and that ההוא _hahu_ is the substantive pronoun used in the geniti...
PERPETUAL DESOLATIONS - The ruins of Babylon form its only lasting memorial....
CHAPTER 25 The Seventy Years' Captivity and the Judgment of the Nations _ 1. The retrospect (Jeremiah 25:1) _ 2. The seventy years' captivity announced (Jeremiah 25:8) 3. The punishment of Babylon...
JEREMIAH 25. THE SUPREMACY OF BABYLON OVER JUDAH AND THE NATIONS. Jeremiah 25:1. In the year 604 (after the Babylonian victory over Egypt at Carchemish, 605 B.C., _cf._ Jeremiah 46:2), Jeremiah public...
WHEN. No necessary sequence with Jeremiah 25:11.Jeremiah 25:12; Jeremiah 25:12 commences. fresh paragraph about the seventy years. PUNISH. visit upon, exactly seventy years later. INIQUITY. Hebr
See end of introductory note to this section. Of these _vv_., 12 and 14, as well as the latter part of 13, cannot be a genuine part of Jeremiah's prophecies, to be dated, like the earlier part of the...
Babylon's victory and subsequent ruin....
B. Judgment on Babylon Jeremiah 25:12-14 TRANSLATION (12) But it shall come to pass when seventy years are completed I will visit upon the king of Babylon, even upon that nation, their iniquity, even...
_AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, WHEN SEVENTY YEARS ARE ACCOMPLISHED, THAT I WILL PUNISH THE KING OF BABYLON, AND THAT NATION, SAITH THE LORD, FOR THEIR INIQUITY, AND THE LAND OF THE CHALDEANS, AND WILL MA...
JEREMIAH'S FOURTEENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF JEHOIAKIM). THE WINE CUP OF GOD'S FURY We have here the first closely dated prophecy, taking us back from Zedekih's reign to the fourth year of Jehoiakim, betw...
I WILL PUNISH THE KING OF BABYLON... — The words are omitted in the LXX. version of the chapter, which differs materially from the Hebrew text, and there are some internal grounds for suspecting it to...
וְ הָיָ֣ה כִ מְלֹ֣אות שִׁבְעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֡ה אֶפְ
Still speaking to Zedekiah, Jeremiah reminded him of the word which came in the fourth year of Jehoiakim. It was a message announcing the judgment of God against Judah, Babylon, the nations, the world...
And it shall come to pass, when (i) seventy years are accomplished, [that] I will punish (k) the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, an...
Here is a gracious promise, (and which was most faithfully fulfilled in the season) given with a view to support the minds of the faithful, during their long captivity. I pray the Reader to mark it do...
The Prophet now, as I have said, shews more clearly why the time of the captivity and exile had been defined, even that the faithful might know that God would not forget his covenant, though he depriv...
Chapter 25 closes, so to say, this part of the prophecy with a general summary of God's judgments on the earth, giving it into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. The immediate application to events already a...
AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, WHEN SEVENTY YEARS ARE ACCOMPLISHED,.... Which were accomplished in the first year of Cyrus: they began with the first year of Nebuchadnezzar, who reigned two years and two...
_And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, [that] I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will...
_When seventy years are accomplished, I will punish the king of Babylon_ “God often punishes the persons whom he makes instruments of his vengeance upon others for those very things which they did by...
THE JUDGMENT ON THE KINGDOMS...
And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, namely, from the time of the first deportation to Babylon, THAT I WILL PUNISH THE KING OF BABYLON AND THAT NATION, SAITH THE LORD, FOR T...
PUNISH: _ Heb._ visit upon...
8-14 The fixing of the time during which the Jewish captivity should last, would not only confirm the prophecy, but also comfort the people of God, and encourage faith and prayer. The ruin of Babylon...
WHEN SEVENTY YEARS ARE ACCOMPLISHED; seventy years accounted from the time that the Jews were carried away in the time of Jeconiah or Jehoiachin, 2 KINGS 24:15,16. This was fulfilled by Darius the kin...
Jeremiah 25:12 seventy H7657 years H8141 completed H4390 (H8800) punish H6485 (H8799) king H4428 Babylon H894 na
BABYLON HERSELF WILL EVENTUALLY BE SUBJECT TO YHWH'S JUDGMENT (JEREMIAH 25:12). Jeremiah 25:12 “And it will come about, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, an...
SUBSECTION 8). JEREMIAH SUMMARISES HIS MINISTRY BEFORE THE PEOPLE AND AFTER DECLARING WHAT IS TO COME ON JUDAH PROCLAIMS THE JUDGMENT OF YHWH THAT IS COMING ON ALL NATIONS (JEREMIAH 25:1). This final...
CONTENTS: Prophecy of seventy years' captivity. Sign of the wine cup of fury. CHARACTERS: Jeremiah, Jehoiakim, Nebuchadnezzar, Pharaoh. CONCLUSION: Men would never receive from God the desolating pu...
Jeremiah 25:1. _In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the first year of Nebuchadrezzar._ Daniel says the third year, Daniel 1:1. The campaign could not be less than a year; the variation arises from the per...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 25:12 Persia conquered BABYLON in 539 B.C. God punishes sin wherever it exists. ⇐...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER: “_Fourth year of Jehoiakim_” (Jeremiah 25:1). It is stated the _third_ year in Daniel 1:1; but Hales (“Sacred Chron.”) shows that Jehoiakim...
EXPOSITION This chapter may be illustrated by a comparison of it with Jeremiah 46:1. There Jeremiah exults ever the destruction of a nation (Egypt) which was one of the chief enemies of God's people,...
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim (Jeremiah 25:1). So now we're going back in time. This was before Zedekiah was king. This was when Jeh...
2 Kings 24:1; Daniel 5:1; Daniel 9:2; Deuteronomy 32:35; Ezekiel 35:9
Accomplished — Counted from the time that the Jews were carried away in the time of Jeconiah or Jehoiakim, 2 Kings 24:15. Desolations — This was fulfilled by Darius, the king of Persia, Daniel 4:31, o...