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CAPTAINS ... RULERS - Jeremiah 51:28. Pashas and Sagans. The prophet
dwells at length upon Babylon’s destructiveness....
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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...
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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...
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Is it (_a_) Cyrus, as conqueror of Babylon, or (_b_) Babylon herself,
that is addressed? Jeremiah 51:24 seems to support (_a_), but on the
whole (_b_) is perhaps preferable. The future tenses can as w...
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_governors_[mg. _lieutenants and deputies_ Cp. Jeremiah 51:28_;
Jeremiah 51:57_; also Ezekiel 23:6; Ezekiel 23:12-23. Th
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D. Divine Destruction Jeremiah 51:11-26
TRANSLATION
(11) Polish the arrows! Fill the shields! The LORD has aroused the
spirit of the king of the Medes; for His purpose is against Babylon to
destroy i...
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_I WILL ALSO BREAK IN PIECES WITH THEE THE SHEPHERD AND HIS FLOCK; AND
WITH THEE WILL I BREAK IN PIECES THE HUSBANDMAN AND HIS YOKE OF OXEN;
AND WITH THEE WILL I BREAK IN PIECES CAPTAINS AND RULERS._...
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51:23 rulers. (a-39) As vers. 28,57. see Ezra 9:2 ....
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1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
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WITH THEE WILL I BREAK IN PIECES CAPTAINS AND RULERS. — The
exhausting of all sorts and conditions of men culminates in the ruling
caste. The Hebrew word for “captain” (_Pekha_) is interesting as
conn...
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וְ נִפַּצְתִּ֤י בְךָ֙ רֹעֶ֣ה וְ
עֶדְרֹ֔ו וְ
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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AND I WILL ALSO BREAK IN PIECES WITH THEE THE SHEPHERD AND HIS
FLOCK,.... Or, have broken; which Abarbinel thinks respects the
Arabians particularly, who were shepherds, and dwelt in tents; but it
rat...
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I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and
with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen;
and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.
V...
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_Thou art my battle-axe_, &c. Cyrus, or rather the army of the Medes
and Persians, seems to be intended here; compare Jeremiah 51:11; as
elsewhere the instrument of God's vengeance is called a _sword_...
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THE THREAT OF JEHOVAH IN ITS VARIOUS FORMS...
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I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and
with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen,
all the laboring classes; AND WITH THEE WILL I BREAK IN PIEC...
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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...
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The sense of all three verse is the same, viz. that God had made use
of, and was still making use of the Babylonians to waste and
impoverish much people, wasting their goods, routing their armies,
kil...
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Jeremiah 51:23 pieces H5310 (H8765) shepherd H7462 (H8802) flock H5739
pieces H5310 (H8765) farmer H406 oxen...
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YHWH'S WAR-CLUB (JEREMIAH 51:20).
The speaker here is clearly YHWH. What is more difficult to determine
is the identity of God's ‘war-club and weapons of war'. Note that
the pronouns are singular. (‘T...
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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...
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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...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 51:20 In the past Babylon was God’s
HAMMER, or instrument of judgment (Jeremiah 50:23). Now a new nation
will play that role as B
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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...
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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...
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Jeremiah 51:23...