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Jeremiah 51:12

Exhortation to commence the blockade.

watchmen those of the attacking force who were appointed to see that the investiture was thorough.

the ambushes to attack any of the besieged that ventured beyond the walls; or (better) to take advantage of a sortie to push their way through the opened gates. Cp. Joshua 8:12 ff.; Judges 20:29 ff.

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See also Jeremiah 51:12 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 51:12. _SET UP THE STANDARD_] A call to the enemies of Babylon to invest the city and press the siege....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    UPON THE WALLS OF BABYLON - Or, “against the walls.” The King James Version takes the word ironically, as a summons to Babylon to prepare for her defense; others take it as a summons to the army to ma...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MAKE THE WATCH, &C. Compare Isaiah 21:5; Isaiah 21:6....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    UPON] RV 'against.'...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SET UP THE STANDARD UPON THE WALLS OF BABYLON. — The Authorised version, following the LXX. and the Vulgate, takes the words as an ironical summons to a defence which will prove fruitless. The preposi...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֶל ־חֹומֹ֨ת בָּבֶ֜ל שְׂאוּ ־נֵ֗ס הַחֲזִ֨יקוּ֙...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Standard. Call together thy subjects and allies. (Haydock) --- This must be explained of Babylon. (Menochius) --- Yet all will be in vain, ver. 11. (Haydock) --- Ambushes. Herein the valour and geniu...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Again I beg the Reader to remark, how the Lord points to his discriminating grace. The portion of Jacob is not like others. This people, saith Jehovah, I have formed for myself, they shall show forth...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    These words seem to have been addressed to the Chaldeans rather than to the Medes or the Persians, as some expound them; for this is favored by the context; for as he bids them first to raise a standa...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    SET UP THE STANDARD UPON THE WALLS OF BABYLON,.... This is not said to the Medes and Persians, to put up a flag on the walls of Babylon, as a sign of victory, as Kimchi, Abarbinel, and others think; f...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Make bright the arrows, gather the shields_ Hebrew, מלאו השׁלשׂים, _the quivers._ Thus the LXX., πληρουτε τας φαρετρας, with whom agree the Vulgate, Castalio, and others. The meaning is, Prepare all...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE THREAT OF JEHOVAH IN ITS VARIOUS FORMS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, raising a flag or emblem to indicate a particular point of attack, MAKE THE WATCH STRONG, so that the siege would be equally effective along the whole li...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    AMBUSHES: _ Heb._ liers in wait...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Some judge these words spoken to the Medes, declaring the will of God, that they should use all probable means to conquer Babylon, or (as some would have it) display their banners upon the walls of it...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 51:12 up H5375 (H8798) standard H5251 walls H2346 Babylon H894 guard H4929 strong H2388 (H8685) up...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH'S VENGEANCE ON BABYLON AND THE VINDICATION OF ISRAEL/JUDAH (JEREMIAH 51:1). The proclamation of the certainty of YHWH's coming judgment on Babylon, and on all that it stands for, continues. While...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 51:12 STANDARD. Signal. See Jeremiah 4:6 and Isaiah 13:2....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 13:2; Isaiah 8:10; Isaiah 8:9; Jeremiah 46:3; Jeremiah 51:11;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Set up — These seem to be the prophet's words to the Babylonians, rousing them out of their security. Historians tell us that the city was fortified by walls of fifty cubits high, and two hundred cubi...

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