Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 50:37
Horses — Through they be full of chariots and horses, the enemy shall destroy them. Mingled people — People that were not native Chaldeans, but under their dominion.
Horses — Through they be full of chariots and horses, the enemy shall destroy them. Mingled people — People that were not native Chaldeans, but under their dominion.
THE MINGLED PEOPLE - i. e., the foreigners serving as mercenaries in her army....
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...
THE MINGLED PEOPLE. the rabble....
_the mingled people_ foreign mercenary troops. See on Jeremiah 25:20....
II. THE DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON Jeremiah 50:35 to Jeremiah 51:26 In this section of the Babylon oracle the major theme of the fall of Babylon becomes more prominent. The minor theme of the deliverance...
A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men. A SWORD ... A SWORD ... A SWORD. The repetition of "A sword" in the...
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...
MINGLED PEOPLE] see on Jeremiah 25:20....
AND UPON ALL THE MINGLED PEOPLE... — The phrase is the same as in Jeremiah 25:20. Here it is used of the auxiliaries of Babylon, which were probably as numerous, and to a large extent the same, as tho...
חֶ֜רֶב אֶל ־סוּסָ֣יו וְ אֶל ־רִכְבֹּ֗ו וְ
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...
I must not detain the Reader, by entering upon the many interesting particulars here enumerated of God's judgments upon Babylon. I only briefly observe, that the history of that kingdom hath fully sho...
The Prophet, indeed, changes the gender of the pronouns, and seems to refer to the king; but there is no ambiguity in the meaning, he then declares that the horses as well as the chariots would perish...
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...
A SWORD [IS] UPON THEIR HORSES, AND UPON THEIR CHARIOTS,.... Upon the horsemen, and those that rode in chariots; upon the whole cavalry, which should fall into the enemies' hands, and be cut to pieces...
A sword [is] upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that [are] in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword [is] upon her treasures; and they shall...
_A sword is upon the Chaldeans_ That is, there shall come a sword upon them. _Upon Babylon and her princes_ Who were slain together with their king, Belshazzar, at a feast, Jeremiah 51:39; Daniel 5:2....
THE ENEMIES OF BABYLON SUMMONED TO THE ATTACK...
A sword is upon their horses and upon their chariots, which were her boast in warfare, AND UPON ALL THE MINGLED PEOPLE THAT ARE IN THE MIDST OF HER, her mercenaries and allies, AND THEY SHALL BECOME A...
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...
A SWORD IS UPON THEIR HORSES, AND UPON THEIR CHARIOTS; though they be full of chariots and horses, the enemy shall destroy them. By the mingled people some understand those whom the Babylonians had hi...
Jeremiah 50:37 sword H2719 horses H5483 chariots H7393 peoples H6153 midst H8432 women H802 sword H2719 treasures H21
THE COMING JUDGMENT ON BABYLON IN ACCORDANCE WITH YHWH'S PURPOSE (JEREMIAH 50:35). The opening verses could be called ‘the Song of the Sword'. The sword is mentioned five times. Jeremiah 50:35 “A s...
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...
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 50:37 FOREIGN TROOPS. Paid foreign solders. THAT THEY MAY BECOME WOMEN! That is, weak in terms of physical strength in combat. It was shameful for a nation to allow women to...
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)....
Ezekiel 30:5; Ezekiel 39:20; Haggai 2:22; Isaiah 19:16; Isaiah 45:3;...