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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Jeremiah 51:4

Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through, pierced by arrow or lance, in her streets. All this would happen on account of Israel's just cause against the Chaldeans.

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See also Jeremiah 51:4 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Translate it: “And they,” i. e., the young men who form her host Jeremiah 51:3, “shall fall slain in the land of the Chaldaeans, and pierced through in her streets,” i. e., the streets of Babylon....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THUS THE SLAIN SHALL FALL— _Let the wounded fall in the land of the Chaldeans._ Houbigant. Dr. Kennicott would render it, _Thus the soldiers shall fall;_ which seems to agree well with the 13th verse...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. Ruthless Destruction Jeremiah 50:41 to Jeremiah 51:5 TRANSLATION (41) Behold, a people shall come from the north, a great nation and many kings shall be stirred up from the distant parts of the ea...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets. THE SLAIN SHALL FALL IN THE LAND ... AND ... IN HER STREETS - (notes, , "Therefore her young...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ נָפְל֥וּ חֲלָלִ֖ים בְּ אֶ֣רֶץ כַּשְׂדִּ֑ים...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In the second movement of the prophecy which deals with Babylon's doom and Israel's responsibility, Jeremiah first repeated his declarations concerning the determination of Jehovah to bring about the...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I beg the Reader particularly to take notice of this last verse. Amidst all the chastisements of the Lord, and the permission given to the enemies of the Church to oppose her, the Lord's own testimony...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    HE proceeds with what we began yesterday to explain, — that the time was nigh when God would take vengeance on the Babylonians. As, then, this could not be without great destruction in a city so very...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THUS THE SLAIN SHALL FALL IN THE LAND OF THE CHALDEANS,.... By the sword, or by the arrows and darts of the Medes and Persians: AND [THEY THAT ARE] THRUST THROUGH IN HER STREETS; either by the one or...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and [they that are] thrust through in her streets._ Ver. 4. _Thus the slain shall fall._] Both within the walls and without, των φονων ουτ αρι...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Against him that bendeth let the archer bend_ See Jeremiah 50:14; _and against him, that lifteth up himself in his brigandine_ Or, _coat of mail:_ suffer not them who are skilful in using the bow, or...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-58 The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to again. Babylon is abundant in treasures, yet neither her waters nor her wealth shall secur...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Thus all of them shall be destroyed, some in the fields, some in the streets of their cities....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 51:4 slain H2491 fall H5307 (H8804) land H776 Chaldeans H3778 through H1856 (H8794) streets H2351...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH'S VENGEANCE ON BABYLON AND THE VINDICATION OF ISRAEL/JUDAH (JEREMIAH 51:1). The proclamation of the certainty of YHWH's coming judgment on Babylon, and on all that it stands for, continues. While...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Prophecies against Babylon, continued. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Nebuchadrezzar, Seraiah. CONCLUSION: Let no nation think it will exempt them from God's judgment that they have been execu...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 51:7. _Babylon is a golden cup in the hands of Jehovah._ All the captives and allies are intoxicated with it. All nations bow to her idols, submit to her power, wonder at her riches, applaud...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—For _Chronological Notes,_ see foregoing chapter. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.— Jeremiah 51:27. “_The kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenas_.” These nations of Western As...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 51:1 AGAINST THEM THAT DWELL IN THE MIDST OF THEM THAT RISE UP AGAINST ME. The Hebrew has _lēb-kāmai_, which is _Kasdim_, or _Chaldea, _written in the cypher called Athbash (see...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 13:15; Isaiah 14:19; Jeremiah 49:26; Jeremiah 50:30;...

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