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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Jeremiah 51:23

The sense of all three verse is the same, viz. that God had made use of, and was still making use of the Babylonians to waste and impoverish much people, wasting their goods, routing their armies, killing all sorts of their inhabitants.

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See also Jeremiah 51:23 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    CAPTAINS ... RULERS - Jeremiah 51:28. Pashas and Sagans. The prophet dwells at length upon Babylon’s destructiveness....

  • 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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _governors_[mg. _lieutenants and deputies_ Cp. Jeremiah 51:28_; Jeremiah 51:57_; also Ezekiel 23:6; Ezekiel 23:12-23. Th

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Is it (_a_) Cyrus, as conqueror of Babylon, or (_b_) Babylon herself, that is addressed? Jeremiah 51:24 seems to support (_a_), but on the whole (_b_) is perhaps preferable. The future tenses can as w...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    D. Divine Destruction Jeremiah 51:11-26 TRANSLATION (11) Polish the arrows! Fill the shields! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the king of the Medes; for His purpose is against Babylon to destroy i...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _I WILL ALSO BREAK IN PIECES WITH THEE THE SHEPHERD AND HIS FLOCK; AND WITH THEE WILL I BREAK IN PIECES THE HUSBANDMAN AND HIS YOKE OF OXEN; AND WITH THEE WILL I BREAK IN PIECES CAPTAINS AND RULERS._...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    51:23 rulers. (a-39) As vers. 28,57. see Ezra 9:2 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WITH THEE WILL I BREAK IN PIECES CAPTAINS AND RULERS. — The exhausting of all sorts and conditions of men culminates in the ruling caste. The Hebrew word for “captain” (_Pekha_) is interesting as conn...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ נִפַּצְתִּ֤י בְךָ֙ רֹעֶ֣ה וְ עֶדְרֹ֔ו וְ

  • 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

    Is not this command to the people of God, to go out of Babylon, the same as gospel precepts, 2 Corinthians 6:17; Revelation 18:4....

  • 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

    AND I WILL ALSO BREAK IN PIECES WITH THEE THE SHEPHERD AND HIS FLOCK,.... Or, have broken; which Abarbinel thinks respects the Arabians particularly, who were shepherds, and dwelt in tents; but it rat...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers. V...

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

    _Thou art my battle-axe_, &c. Cyrus, or rather the army of the Medes and Persians, seems to be intended here; compare Jeremiah 51:11; as elsewhere the instrument of God's vengeance is called a _sword_...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE THREAT OF JEHOVAH IN ITS VARIOUS FORMS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen, all the laboring classes; AND WITH THEE WILL I BREAK IN PIEC...

  • 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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 51:23 pieces H5310 (H8765) shepherd H7462 (H8802) flock H5739 pieces H5310 (H8765) farmer H406 oxen...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH'S WAR-CLUB (JEREMIAH 51:20). The speaker here is clearly YHWH. What is more difficult to determine is the identity of God's ‘war-club and weapons of war'. Note that the pronouns are singular. (‘T...

  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 51:20 In the past Babylon was God’s HAMMER, or instrument of judgment (Jeremiah 50:23). Now a new nation will play that role as B

  • 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

    Jeremiah 51:23...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Break in pieces — The sense of all these three verses is the same; that God had made use, and was still making use of the Babylonians to destroy many nations, to spoil much people, wasting their goods...

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