Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Jeremiah 25:17
That is, in the vision; for it cannot be thought that the Lord made the prophet to travel up and down to all the nations afterward named with a cup of wine in his hand.
That is, in the vision; for it cannot be thought that the Lord made the prophet to travel up and down to all the nations afterward named with a cup of wine in his hand.
Verse Jeremiah 25:17. _THEN TOOK I THE CUP - AND MADE ALL THE NATIONS TO DRINK_] This _cup of God's wrath_ is merely symbolical, and simply means that the prophet should declare to all these people t...
THEN TOOK I THE CUP - Not actually offering the wine-cup - Holy Scripture has suffered much from this materialistic way of explaining it: but publicly proclaiming this prophecy in Jerusalem, as the ce...
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...
_Then took I the cup_ not in any literal sense, but in vision; yet "not a mere allegory, but a psychic experience, in which Jeremiah really seems to himself to be forcing the goblet on the nations whi...
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...
_THEN TOOK I THE CUP AT THE LORD'S HAND, AND MADE ALL THE NATIONS TO DRINK, UNTO WHOM THE LORD HAD SENT ME:_ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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...
THEN TOOK I THE CUP] not, however, in a literal sense, the cup being itself only figurative....
THEN TOOK I THE CUP... — The words describe the act of the prophet as in the ecstasy of vision. One by one the nations are made to drink of that cup of the wrath of Jehovah of which His own country wa...
וָ אֶקַּ֥ח אֶת ־הַ כֹּ֖וס מִ יַּ֣ד
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...
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...
The Prophet now adds that he obeyed God’s command; for he had before often testified that he was constrained to perform his office, which he would have willingly not have done, if he was at liberty. B...
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...
THEN TOOK I THE CUP AT THE LORD'S HAND,.... In a visionary way, and did as he commanded, and prophesied as he directed him. The prophet was obedient to the heavenly vision, as became him: AND MADE AL...
Then took I the cup at the LORD'S hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me: Ver. 17. _And made all drink,_] viz., In vision, and by denunciation....
_Then took I the cup_ It is not to be imagined that Jeremiah went round in person to all the nations and kings here enumerated, with a cup of wine in his hand, but, doubtless, what is here related pas...
Then took I the cup at the Lord's hand, all this in the vision which was vouchsafed him, AND MADE ALL THE NATIONS TO DRINK UNTO WHOM THE LORD HAD SENT ME, namely, by making an open announcement of thi...
THE JUDGMENT ON THE KINGDOMS...
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...
Jeremiah 25:17 took H3947 (H8799) cup H3563 LORDS H3068 hand H3027 nations H1471 drink H8248 (H8686) LORD...
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...
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...
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 25:17 MADE ALL THE NATIONS... DRINK IT. Through a symbolic act in Jeremiah’s role as prophet to the nations (Jeremiah 1:5)....
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 43:3; Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 25:28; Jeremiah 27:3; Je