Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Jeremiah 25:19
Pharaoh, king of Egypt, upon whom the Jews had chiefly relied, and his servants and his princes and all his people,
Pharaoh, king of Egypt, upon whom the Jews had chiefly relied, and his servants and his princes and all his people,
Verse Jeremiah 25:19. _PHARAOH KING OF EGYPT_] This was _Pharaoh-necho_, who was the principal cause of instigating the neighbouring nations to form a league against the Chaldeans....
The arrangement is remarkable. Jeremiah begins with the south, Egypt; next Uz on the southeast, and Philistia on the southwest; next, Edom, Moab, and Ammon on the east, and Tyre, and Sidon, and the is...
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...
The wine-cup of the Lord's fury to be drunk by all the nations. For confusion and dismay, expressed under the figure of intoxication, see below. Overthrow at the hands of the Chaldaeans is to be the...
_Pharaoh_ a name belonging not to an individual but (cp. _Kaiser_and _Czar_) to the monarch as such. The word has been somewhat altered in shape by its transmission to us through Hebrew. It is the hie...
C. Judgment on Surrounding Nations Jeremiah 25:15-29 TRANSLATION (15) For thus says the LORD, God of Israel, unto me: Take this cup of wine, wrath, from My hand and cause all the nations to whom I am...
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people; PHARAOH - put next after Jerusalem, because the Jews had relied most on him, and Egypt and Judea stood on a common foo...
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...
PHARAOH KING OF EGYPT... — The list of the nations begins, it will be seen, from the south and proceeds northwards; those that lay on the east and west being named, as it were, literally, according to...
אֶת ־פַּרְעֹ֧ה מֶֽלֶךְ ־מִצְרַ֛יִם וְ אֶת ־עֲ
CHAPTER XVI JEHOVAH AND THE NATIONS Jeremiah 25:15 "Jehovah hath a controversy with the nations."- Jeremiah 25:31 As the son of a king only learns very gradually that his father's authority and act...
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...
_Pharao, who was defeated (Ezechiel xxx. 25.) coming to assist Juda, (chap. xxxvii.) and again plundered after the taking of Tyre, Ezechiel xxix. 18._...
This scripture can need no other comment, than what is contained in Revelation 14:10. By Jeremiah's taking the cup, and making all these nations drink of it, is meant, making them to hear and know tha...
It may here be asked, why he connects Pharaoh with the Jews, and assigns the second place to the Egyptians rather than to other nations? The reason is evident, — because the Jews expected deliverance...
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...
PHARAOH KING OF EGYPT,.... Who is mentioned first after the kings of Judah; not only because the Jews were in alliance with Egypt, and trusted to them; and therefore this is observed, to show the vani...
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people; Ver. 19. _Pharaoh king of Egypt._] Pharaohhophra, Jer 44:30 of whom Herodotus _a_ writeth that he persuaded himself and b...
_To wit, Jerusalem and the cities thereof_ The Jews are mentioned first, because Jeremiah, as well as the rest of the prophets, was in the first place sent to them, and they were to have the greatest...
15-29 The evil and the good events of life are often represented in Scripture as cups. Under this figure is represented the desolation then coming upon that part of the world, of which Nebuchadnezzar...
The Egyptians being that people whom the Jews most trusted to for help, are named as the first to whom the prophet was sent with the wine-cup of God's fury, to let the Jews know, that if they trusted...
Jeremiah 25:19 Pharaoh H6547 king H4428 Egypt H4714 servants H5650 princes H8269 people H5971 Pharaoh -...
ALL THE NATIONS WILL BE MADE TO DRINK FROM THE CUP OF YHWH'S WRATH AGAINST SIN AND IDOLATRY (JEREMIAH 25:15). In these remarkable words the destinies of all nations are seen as in YHWH's hands. And th...
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 25:19 EGYPT. Prior to 605 B.C., Egypt dominated Judah, but Babylon’s victory at Carchemish that year gave Babylon power over Egypt and the countries Egypt ruled....
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...
Ezekiel 32:32; Jeremiah 43:9; Jeremiah 46:13; Jeremiah 46:2; N