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Verse Jeremiah 50:9. _AN ASSEMBLY OF GREAT NATIONS_] The army of Cyrus
was composed of Medes, Persians, Armenians, Caducians, Sacae, c.
Though all these did not come from the _north_ yet they were arr...
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I WILL RAISE - Or, stir up.
AN ASSEMBLY OF GREAT NATIONS - The Medo-Persian empire was as much an
aggregate of discordant nations as that of Babylon.
FROM THENCE - From the north, i. e., by the grea...
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CHAPTER S 50-51 BABYLON
These two final Chapter s contain a great prophecy concerning Babylon,
her overthrow and doom. The fifty-first chapter closes with the
statement “thus far are the words of Jere...
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JEREMIAH 50:1 TO JEREMIAH 51:58. BABYLON. This long and monotonous
prophecy, which is without order or logical development of ideas, is
largely a compilation from the prophetic writings of Jeremiah an...
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ASSEMBLY. a gathered host, or convocation. great nations. Compare
Isaiah 13:3; Isaiah 13:4.
MIGHTY... MAN. Hebrew. _gibbor._ App-14.
EXPERT. successful. Compare Jeremiah 10:21;...
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_an assembly of great nations_ such as Ararat, Minni, Ashkenaz. Cp.
Jeremiah 51:27 f.
_an expert mighty man_ better than the mg. _a mighty man that maketh
childless_. In the Heb. the two readings dif...
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CHAPTER NINETEEN
GOD AND BABYLON
Jeremiah 50:1 to Jeremiah 51:64 e
Eichorn was the first to deny the authenticity of Chapter s 50-51 and
he has been followed by most modern critics. Cornill affirms...
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For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an
assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set
themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: the...
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THE FALL OF BABYLON AND THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL
The prophecy concerning Babylon is ascribed to Jeremiah in Jeremiah
51:59. This, however, need not mean more than that it represents the
tone of Jerem...
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AN ASSEMBLY OF GREAT NATIONS] see for some of them Jeremiah 51:27.
Herodotus (vii. 61f.) says there were twenty-two....
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AN ASSEMBLY OF GREAT NATIONS FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY. — Like all the
great monarchies of the East, the Medo-Persian kingdom, which was to
be the destroyer of Babylon, was made up of a congeries of many...
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כִּ֣י הִנֵּ֣ה אָנֹכִ֡י מֵעִיר֩ וּ
מַעֲלֶ֨ה עַ
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CHAPTER XXV
BABYLON
Jeremiah 50:1, Jeremiah 51:1
"Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces."-
Jeremiah 50:2
THESE Chapter s present phenomena analogous to those of...
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The last of the prophecies concerning the nations has to do with
Babylon. Throughout the whole of Jeremiah's prophetic utterances, she
has been seen as the instrument of God's judgment. Finally, on ac...
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Nations. Cyrus had Armenians, &c., in his army. (Calmet) --- Thence,
by the bed of the Euphrates, the waters of which were mostly let out
into the marshes. Thus the city was taken, while the people we...
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Let not the Reader overlook still further testimonies of divine favor
to his poor outcasts, in that the Lord sends enemies to destroy
Babylon, because Babylon had wasted his people. Ye rejoiced, said...
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Here, again, God declares that enemies would come and overthrow the
monarchy of Babylon; but what has been before referred to is here more
clearly expressed. For he says, first, that he would be the l...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 45 THROUGH 51.
Chapter 45 gives us the prophecy with respect to Baruch, already
mentioned. Chapter 46 and following Chapter s contain the prophecies
against t...
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FOR, LO, I WILL RAISE AND CAUSE TO COME UP AGAINST BABYLON,.... The
work was of the Lord; it was he that would give a commission and a
command to the enemies of Babylon; that would incline them, and s...
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For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly
of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves
in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: thei...
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_For, lo, I will raise against Babylon_, &c. See Jeremiah 50:41, and
Jeremiah 51:27. _From thence_, or, as משׁם, may be rendered,
_immediately, she shall be taken. Their arrows_, &c. The Medes and
Per...
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EXPERT MAN:
Or, destroyer...
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8-20 The desolation that shall be brought upon Babylon is set forth
in a variety of expressions. The cause of this destruction is the
wrath of the Lord. Babylon shall be wholly desolated; for she hat...
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He means the Medes and Persians, as it is expounded afterward. THEIR
ARROWS SHALL BE AS OF A MIGHTY EXPERT MAN; NONE SHALL RETURN IN VAIN;
I will so direct their arrows, that every arrow they shoot sh...
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Jeremiah 50:9 raise H5782 (H8688) up H5927 (H8688) Babylon H894
assembly H6951 great H1419 nations H1471 north...
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GOD'S CALL TO HIS ERRANT PEOPLE TO FLEE FROM BABYLON BECAUSE THE WRATH
OF YHWH IS COMING ON IT (JEREMIAH 50:6).
Israel's plight is described as resulting from her backslidden
condition, a plight seen...
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YHWH'S JUDGMENT ON BABYLON AND HIS PROMISES CONCERNING THE RESTORATION
OF THE REMNANT OF HIS PEOPLE (JEREMIAH 50:1 TO JEREMIAH 51:64).
The series of prophecies against the nations had commenced with t...
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CONTENTS: Prophecies against Babylon and Chaldea.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, King of Assyria, Nebuchadrezzar.
CONCLUSION: The pride of men's hearts sets God against them and ripens
them in due time f...
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Jeremiah 50:1. _The word that the Lord spake against Babylon._ Messiah
in person spake to the prophet, as is stated in Jeremiah 48:1. But
while he spake against Babylon, his lips dropped with grace an...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—This
and the following chapter constitute one prophecy against Babylon; and
the date of its authorship is given in chap. Jeremiah 51:59: “t...
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Jeremiah 50:1. AND 51. ON BABYLON.
EXPOSITION
We have now reached a point at which some reference is necessary to
the centre versies of the so called "higher criticism." An attempt
must be made to pu...
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Shall we turn now to Jeremiah chapter 50.
Chapter 50 begins with the words,
The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of
the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet (Jeremiah 50:1)....
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Jeremiah 15:14; Jeremiah 51:11; Jeremiah 51:1; Jeremiah 51:27;...