How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
Ver. 41. How is Sheshach taken?] i.e., How is Babylon destroyed beyond all expectation? See Jeremiah 25:26 .
Verse Jeremiah 51:41. _HOW IS SHESHACH TAKEN!_] Perhaps the city is here called by the name of its idol. _THE PRAISE OF THE WHOLE EARTH_] One of the _seven wonders_ of the world; superexcellent for t...
SHESHACH - Babylon: see the Jeremiah 51:1 note. SURPRISED - i. e., seized, captured....
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...
SHESHACH. See note on Jeremiah 25:26....
_Sheshach_ i.e. Babylon. See on Jeremiah 25:26. _a desolation_ mg. _an astonishment_. Cp. Jeremiah 51:43....
HOW IS SHESHACH TAKEN!— That is, _Babylon;_ called _Sheshach_ from the goddess of that name, which the Babylonians worshipped, and which is supposed by Calmet to have been the same with the moon. See...
C. Babylon's Demolition and Israel's Liberation Jeremiah 51:41-46 TRANSLATION (41) How sad that Sheshak is captured, the praise of all the earth is taken! How sad that Babylon has become an astonishm...
How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations! SHESHACH - Babylon (cf. note, ). Called so from the goddess Shach...
51:41 Sheshach (f-3) See Note, ch. 25.26....
1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
SHESHACH] see on Jeremiah 25:26....
HOW IS SHESHACH TAKEN! — “Sheshach,” it will be remembered, is the cypher which, as explained in the Note on Jeremiah 25:26, stands for Babylon. Here, in the parallelism of Hebrew poetry, it balances...
אֵ֚יךְ נִלְכְּדָ֣ה שֵׁשַׁ֔ךְ וַ תִּתָּפֵ֖שׂ תְּהִלַּ֣ת...
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...
How is (y) Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an horror among the nations! (y) Meaning Babel as in (Jeremiah 25:26)....
_Search, the city which worshipped the moon, (chap. xxv. 26.) Bel, (chap. l. 2.) &c._...
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....
Here the wonder expressed by the Prophet tended to confirm what he had said, for he thus dissipated those things which usually disturbed the minds of the godly, so as not to give full credit to his pr...
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...
HOW IS SHESHACH TAKEN!.... Not the city Shushan, as Sir John Marsham thinks e; but Babylon, as is plain from a following clause; and so the Targum, "how is Babylon subdued!'' called Sheshach, by a p...
_How is Sheshach taken!_ That Babylon is meant by Sheshach is certain; but why it is so called is yet matter of doubt: see note on Jeremiah 25:26. Some indeed have supposed that it is called so from a...
THE WORK OF THE SPOILERS...
How is Sheshach taken! Cf. Jeremiah 25:26. AND HOW IS THE PRAISE OF THE WHOLE EARTH SURPRISED! namely, Babylon, which was an object of envy and praise throughout the world. HOW IS BABYLON BECOME AN AS...
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...
We meet with this term SHESHACH only here, and JEREMIAH 25:26; both places leave it doubtful whether it be to be taken for an idol, which they called by the name of _Shach_, or a name given to the cit...
Jeremiah 51:41 Sheshach H8347 taken H3920 (H8738) praise H8416 earth H776 seized H8610 (H8735) Babylon H894 desol
AN EXULTATION OVER THE CITY OF BABYLON'S DEMISE (JEREMIAH 51:41). We note in this exultation the emphasis on what is to happen to Bel (Marduk), the chief god of Babylon. Babylon had boasted that it wa...
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...
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...
2 Chronicles 7:21; Daniel 2:38; Daniel 4:22; Daniel 4:30; Daniel 5:1;...
Sheshach — A name given to the city of Babylon....