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Jeremiah 51:28
Prepare See on Jeremiah 51:27.
kings Read king, with LXX (cp. Jeremiah 51:11). Cyrus is meant.
governors … deputies See on Jeremiah 51:23.
Prepare See on Jeremiah 51:27.
kings Read king, with LXX (cp. Jeremiah 51:11). Cyrus is meant.
governors … deputies See on Jeremiah 51:23.
HIS DOMINION - This belonged not to the subordinate rulers, but to the chief, e. g., to Cyrus....
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 Some codices, with three early printed editions, read "and the"....
III. THE DOOM OF BABYLON Jeremiah 51:27-58 The third section of the Babylon oracle which begins in Jeremiah 51:27 emphasizes the final doom of Babylon. The attack of the enemy is again described in vi...
Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion. THE KINGS OF THE MEDES - (). The satraps and tribut...
51:28 Prepare (d-1) Lit. 'hallow.' see ch. 6.4....
1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
PREPARE] lit. 'sanctify': so in Jeremiah 6:4; Jeremiah 22:7. HIS DOMINION] referring to the king of Media, who is to gather to the attack his tribes with their leaders: cp. Jeremiah 22:11....
ALL THE LAND OF HIS DOMINION. — The use of the singular pronoun indicates that the prophet recognises the fact that the kings, captains, and rulers (see Note on Jeremiah 51:23) are all under one sover...
קַדְּשׁ֨וּ עָלֶ֤יהָ גֹויִם֙ אֶת ־מַלְכֵ֣י מָדַ֔י...
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...
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...
_Prepare; "sanctify." (Haydock) --- Media. Cyrus, ver. 11. --- Captains: generals. (Calmet) --- Rulers. Literally, "magistrates." (Haydock) --- Hebrew Seganim, a title used once by Isaias, and frequen...
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....
He now repeats what he had said of preparing the nations; but he mentions them first generally, and then he comes to specify them particularly. He then bids the _nations _to be sent for, and then he s...
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...
PREPARE AGAINST HER THE NATIONS, WITH THE KINGS OF THE MEDES,.... At the head of them, Darius and Cyrus. The Syriac version has it in the singular number, the king of the Modes: THE CAPTAINS THEREOF,...
Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion. Ver. 28. _Prepare against her._] Heb., Sanctify. _as _...
_Set ye up a standard blow the trumpet_ These were common signals for assembling armies together. _Call together the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashehenaz_ These were countries under the dominion o...
THE WORK OF THE SPOILERS...
Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the satraps, or princes, of the empire, THE CAPTAINS THEREOF, the governors of the smaller provinces, AND ALL THE RULERS THEREOF, AND ALL T...
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...
Here the prophet declares those particular princes and nations that should be God's instruments to destroy Babylon, viz. Cyrus and Darius, the emperors of the Medes, with all the forces under their co...
Jeremiah 51:28 Prepare H6942 (H8761) nations H1471 kings H4428 Medes H4074 governors H6346 rulers H5461 land H776
PREPARATION FOR THE COMING TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON (JEREMIAH 51:25). With the mention of what is to happen to Babylon in Jeremiah 51:24, YHWH's attention now turns on Babylon, describing it as a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
1 Chronicles 1:5; Daniel 5:28; Daniel 6:8; Daniel 8:20; Daniel 8:3;...