Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 25:9
Nebuchadnezzar — In this work shall be my servant; though you will not be my servants in obeying my commands.
Nebuchadnezzar — In this work shall be my servant; though you will not be my servants in obeying my commands.
Verse Jeremiah 25:9. _BEHOLD, I WILL SEND_] At this time Nebuchadrezzar had not invaded the land, according to this Version; but the Hebrew may be translated, "Behold I am sending, and have taken all...
The term families is probably used here to signify the widespread empire of Nebuchadnezzar. MY SERVANT - This title, so remarkable in the Old Testament as the especial epithet, first of Moses, and th...
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...
MY SERVANT. Compare Isaiah 45:1. AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton._ App-6. ASTONISHMENT. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:37). Compare Jeremiah 25:18. perpetual
_saith the Lord … my servant_ LXX omit, doubtless rightly, as a gloss which needlessly introduces harshness into the construction of the MT. It is remarkable, however, that neither do they recognise t...
Babylon's victory and subsequent ruin....
_the families of the north_ See ch. Jeremiah 1:14 f. _families_ For the wide use of this word see on Jeremiah 3:14, and cp. Jeremiah 8:3. _utterly destroy_ lit. as mg. _devote_, i.e. place them under...
II. GOD AND THE WORLD RULER Jeremiah 25:1-38 Chapter 25 is one of the most important Chapter s in the entire book. A great deal can be learned about the message of Jeremiah from this single chapter. A...
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants ther...
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...
FAMILIES OF THE NORTH] the races near the Tigris and Euphrates. MY SERVANT] God's agent in carrying out His purposes of chastisement....
THE FAMILIES OF THE NORTH. — The phrase reminds us of the vision of “the seething pot _from the face of the north_” in Jeremiah 1:13, and includes all the mingled races, Scythians and others, who owne...
הִנְנִ֣י שֹׁלֵ֡חַ וְ לָקַחְתִּי֩ אֶת ־כָּל ־מ
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...
Behold, I will send and take all the (e) families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my (f) servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitan...
_My servant. So this wicked king is here called; because God made him his instrument in punishing the sins of his people. (Challoner) (Worthington) --- He thought himself more than man, but he was onl...
I pray the Reader to observe, how the King of Babylon is called the Lord's servant. Yes! for the Lord will serve himself of his enemies, when the purposes of his sacred will, render it necessary. In t...
Here follows a denunciation of punishment; the Prophet says that God would no longer deal in words, for their iniquity had ripened, according to what is in Genesis, “My Spirit shall not contend (or s...
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...
BEHOLD, I WILL SEND AND TAKE ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE NORTH, SAITH THE LORD,.... The Targum is, the kingdoms of the north, the same with those in Jeremiah 1:15; even all those kingdoms which were subj...
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants there...
_Therefore, because ye have not heard_ That is, because ye have not hearkened to, nor obeyed _my words, Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north_, &c. All those kings whose territori...
behold, I will send and take all the families of the North, saith the Lord, all the nations which were allies to the Chaldeans, AND NEBUCHADNEZZAR, THE KING OF BABYLON, MY SERVANT, who is so designate...
THE JUDGMENT ON JUDAH...
8-14 The fixing of the time during which the Jewish captivity should last, would not only confirm the prophecy, but also comfort the people of God, and encourage faith and prayer. The ruin of Babylon...
I will put it into the heart of all those kings whose territories lie northward of Judea, and particularly into the heart of NEBUCHADREZZAR THE KING OF BABYLON, who in this work shall be MY SERVANT; t...
Jeremiah 25:9 send H7971 (H8802) take H3947 (H8804) families H4940 north H6828 says H5002 (H8803) LORD...
JEREMIAH'S WARNING TO THE PEOPLE CONCERNING THEIR FUTURE (JEREMIAH 25:3). Jeremiah 25:3 ‘From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these three and twenty ye...
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...
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 25:8 TRIBES OF THE NORTH. See Jeremiah 1:13; Jeremia
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...
1 Kings 9:7; 1 Kings 9:8; Deuteronomy 28:45; Ezekiel 26:7; Ezek