Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 25:26
The north — All under the government of the Chaldeans. Of Sheshach — And the king of Babylon, who was last of all to drink of this cup of the Lord's fury.
The north — All under the government of the Chaldeans. Of Sheshach — And the king of Babylon, who was last of all to drink of this cup of the Lord's fury.
Verse Jeremiah 25:26. _THE KINGS OF THE NORTH, FAR AND NEAR_] The _first_ may mean Syria; the _latter_, the _Hyrcanians_ and _Bactrians_. _AND THE KING OF SHESHACH SHALL DRINK AFTER THEM._] _Sheshac...
ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD ... - In accordance with the usage of Holy Scripture this universality is limited. It is moral and not geographical. SHESHACH - Jerome says that this is the name Babel wr...
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 WORLD. Hebrew. _'erez_ (with Art.), the earth. THE EARTH. the ground, or soil. Hebrew. _'adamah_ (with Art.) SHESHACH. The _Massorah_ explains that this word is "Babel", being. cypher by which th...
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...
_of the world_ rightly omitted by LXX. It is clear that Jeremiah 25:25 bear traces of modification in consonance with later Jewish views as to the end of the dispensation. _which are upon the face of...
AND THE KING OF SHESHACH SHALL DRINK, &C.— By _Sheshach_ is meant Babylon, as appears from chap. Jeremiah 51:41. Houbigant renders it, _And king Sheshach,_ &c. whereby, says he, Nebuchadnezzar himself...
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...
And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them. SHESHACH -...
25:26 Sheshach (f-33) An enigmatical name for _ Babel_ , formed by reversing the order of the Hebrew letters. see ch. 51.41, also 51.1, and Note....
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...
SHESHACH] Sheshach stands in all probability for Babel (or Babylon). The Jews had a species of cypher writing, the form of which consisted in substituting the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet for th...
THE KINGS OF THE NORTH. — The term is used generally (the Jews knowing comparatively little of the detailed geography of that region, the Grog, Magog, Meshech, and Tubal of Ezekiel 38, 39), as in Jere...
וְ אֵ֣ת ׀ כָּל ־מַלְכֵ֣י הַ צָּפֹ֗ון הַ
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...
And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which [are] upon the face of the earth: and the king of (u) Sheshach shall drink after them. (u) Tha...
Zambri, sprung from Cethura, and dwelling in Arabia, (Calmet) or Persia, (St. Jerome) where Pliny ([Natural History?] vi. 28.) places the Zamarenians. --- Elam. Persians, (Haydock) by the sword of Ale...
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 speaks now of the kings of the north who bordered on the king of Babylon; for as to Judea, Babylon was northward. He calls all those who were towards Chaldea the kings of the north. He the...
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...
AND ALL THE KINGS OF THE NORTH, FAR AND NEAR, ONE WITH ANOTHER,.... That were on the north of Judea, the kings of Syria, and those that were near to the kingdom of Babylon, whether more remote from Ju...
And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which [are] upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them. Ver. 26. _A...
_All the kings of Zimri_ Those descended from Zimran, one of Abraham's sons, by Keturah; all of whom he sent to settle in the east country, Genesis 25:2; Genesis 25:6. It is probable that these descen...
THE JUDGMENT ON THE KINGDOMS...
and all the kings of the North, far and near, a general expression referring to all the empires in the valleys of the Euphrates and the Tigris and beyond, ONE WITH ANOTHER, AND ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE...
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...
ALL THE KINGS OF THE NORTH, FAR AND NEAR; all under the government of the Chaldeans, or (as others) all those princes that have dominions between the north and east. ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD, whi...
Jeremiah 25:26 kings H4428 north H6828 far H7350 near H7138 one H376 another H251 kingdoms H4467 world H776 face...
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...
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...
SHESHACH A name for Babylon. (Jeremiah 51:41)....
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 25:23 Nations far distant from Judah will be conquered by Babylon. Indeed, ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD shall drink the cup of Babylon’s wrath. Afterward the king of Babylon...
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...
Daniel 5:1; Ezekiel 32:30; Habakkuk 2:16; Isaiah 14:32; Isaiah 47:1