Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 50:33
Together — Together in this place signifies no more than that they were both oppressed, or alike oppressed.
Together — Together in this place signifies no more than that they were both oppressed, or alike oppressed.
WERE OPPRESSED - are “oppressed together: and all their captors have laid firm hold upon them: they have refused to let them go.” The restoration of Israel and Judah to their land is necessary. As Bab...
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...
_hold … refuse_ The Babylonian oppressors act like Pharaoh of old....
D. Babylon's Recompense and Israel's Redemption Jeremiah 50:29-34 TRANSLATION (29) Summon against Babylon archers, all who handle the bow! Encamp against her round about! Let no one escape! Repay her...
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed t...
THE FALL OF BABYLON AND THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL The prophecy concerning Babylon is ascribed to Jeremiah in Jeremiah 51:59. This, however, need not mean more than that it represents the tone of Jerem...
WERE OPPRESSED. — Better, _are oppressed,_ and so on through the verse. The English tense is misleading. The prophet, having described the doom that lies in the future, now returns to the present, and...
כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָאֹ֔ות עֲשׁוּקִ֛ים בְּנֵי...
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...
The last of the prophecies concerning the nations has to do with Babylon. Throughout the whole of Jeremiah's prophetic utterances, she has been seen as the instrument of God's judgment. Finally, on ac...
_Israel. Samaria had been destroyed forty-four years before the fourth of Joakim, from which period many of Juda had been captives seventy years, till Cyrus became their deliverer, and chastised the C...
And doth not those sweet consolations belong to God's people at all times, and under all exercises. God's Israel, and Judah, are oppressed together. Every hand is against the household of faith. Men m...
Our Prophet returns again to his former subject — that God, in destroying the Babylonian monarchy, would have a regard to his chosen people. But the comparison made here is very important; for in the...
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...
THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS,.... This is a preface to another prophecy, detached from the former, respecting the redemption of the Lord's people by the Messiah; and is used to excite the attention to...
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah [were] oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go. Ver. 33. _The ch...
_Israel and Judah were oppressed together_ Not _together_ with respect to times, for there was a distance of one hundred and fifty years between the time of Israel's and Judah's being carried away cap...
THE ENEMIES OF BABYLON SUMMONED TO THE ATTACK...
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together, in the captivity of the exile, AND ALL THAT TOOK THEM CAPTIVES HELD THEM FAST, were still holdin...
33-46 It is Israel's comfort in distress, that, though they are weak, their Redeemer is strong. This may be applied to believers, who complain of the dominion of sin and corruption, and of their own...
WERE OPPRESSED TOGETHER; not together in respect of times, for there was one hundred and fifty years difference betwixt the time of Israel's and Judah's captivity; nor by the same enemy, Israel was ca...
Jeremiah 50:33 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 children H1121 Israel H3478 oppressed H6231 (H8803) Alon
YHWH'S JUDGMENT ON BABYLON AND HIS PROMISES CONCERNING THE RESTORATION OF THE REMNANT OF HIS PEOPLE (JEREMIAH 50:1 TO JEREMIAH 51:64). The series of prophecies against the nations had commenced with t...
YHWH WILL ACT ON BEHALF OF HIS PEOPLE (JEREMIAH 50:33). One reason why it was necessary to bring judgment on Babylon was because otherwise God's people would not be released. While they had a certain...
CONTENTS: Prophecies against Babylon and Chaldea. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, King of Assyria, Nebuchadrezzar. CONCLUSION: The pride of men's hearts sets God against them and ripens them in due time f...
Jeremiah 50:1. _The word that the Lord spake against Babylon._ Messiah in person spake to the prophet, as is stated in Jeremiah 48:1. But while he spake against Babylon, his lips dropped with grace an...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 50:33 HELD THEM FAST. Part of Babylon’s sin against God was its oppression of Israelite and Judean captives. Once held, they were never released. Babylon was like the pharaoh...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—This and the following chapter constitute one prophecy against Babylon; and the date of its authorship is given in chap. Jeremiah 51:59: “t...
Jeremiah 50:1. AND 51. ON BABYLON. EXPOSITION We have now reached a point at which some reference is necessary to the centre versies of the so called "higher criticism." An attempt must be made to pu...
Shall we turn now to Jeremiah chapter 50. Chapter 50 begins with the words, The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet (Jeremiah 50:1)....
Exodus 5:2; Exodus 8:2; Exodus 9:17; Exodus 9:18; Exodus 9:2;...