Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Jeremiah 51:61
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon and shalt see, rather, "then observe very carefully," and shalt read all these words,
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon and shalt see, rather, "then observe very carefully," and shalt read all these words,
Historical appendix. In his fourth year Zedekiah journeyed to Babylon either to obtain some favor from Nebuchadnezzar, or because he was summoned to be present on some state occasion. Jeremiah took th...
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...
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...
AND SHALT SEE, &C.. then shalt thou look out and read....
Seraiah's mission The rejection as non-Jeremianic of the preceding prophecy against Babylon (see introd. note to chs. 50, 51) by no means need involve suspicion of this section. Here impassioned denu...
_then see … and say_ From "and say" to the end of Jeremiah 51:62 is probably the addition of a compiler; it is a needless interruption to the close connexion of the preceding words with Jeremiah 51:63...
IV. THE HISTORY OF THE BABYLON PROPHECY Jeremiah 51:59-64 TRANSLATION (59) The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah, ki...
The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Serai...
1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
AND SHALT SEE, AND SHALTREAD] RV 'then see that thou read,' so that the Jewish witnesses who heard could testify in after time to the prediction....
WHEN THOU COMEST TO BABYLON, AND SHALT SEE, AND SHALT READ... — The meaning of the Hebrew would be better expressed by, _thou shalt see to it and read,_ or _see to it and read._ The English version, a...
וַ יֹּ֥אמֶר יִרְמְיָ֖הוּ אֶל ־שְׂרָיָ֑ה כְּ ב
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...
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...
Here the subject closeth, both to Jeremiah's prophecy, and the predictions against Babylon; and a solemn close it is. The best and truest explanation we find to the whole is in the Book of Revelation;...
Jeremiah, then, _wrote in a book all the evil which was to come on Babylon, _even _all those words, _(he refers to the prophecies which we have seen;) _and Jeremiah said to Seraiah, _(112) _etc_. Here...
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...
AND JEREMIAH SAID TO SERAIAH,.... At the time he delivered the copy to him: WHEN THOU COMEST TO BABYLON; or art come to Babylon, to the city of Babylon, and to the captive Jews there: AND SHALT SEE...
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words; Ver. 61. _When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see,_] _sc., _ The sinfulness as well as the...
_So Jeremiah wrote in a book_ Namely, in the two foregoing Chapter s; _all the evil that should come upon Babylon_ This was done that it might be known even in Babylon itself that Jeremiah had foretol...
59-64 This prophecy is sent to Babylon, to the captives there, by Seraiah, who is to read it to his countrymen in captivity. Let them with faith see the end of these threatening powers, and comfort t...
Not to the Chaldeans, nor possibly is it to be understood of a mere private reading of them to himself, but to the Jews that were in Babylon, acquainting them with what God had spoken against Babylon...
Jeremiah 51:61 Jeremiah H3414 said H559 (H8799) Seraiah H8304 arrive H935 (H8800) Babylon H894 see H7200 ...
JEREMIAH HANDS TO ONE OF THE GODLY LEADERS WHO IS GOING WITH KING ZEDEKIAH ON A JOURNEY TO BABYLON A SCROLL CONTAINING HIS PROPHECIES ABOUT BABYLON. THIS WAS TO BE USED SYMBOLICALLY TO DENOTE THE CERT...
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...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 51:60 JEREMIAH WROTE IN A BOOK all these words concerning BABYLON (most likely Jeremiah 50:2)....
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...
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...
1 Thessalonians 4:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:27; Colossians 4:16; Jeremiah 29:1;...
Shalt read — Probably to the Jews, that were in Babylon....