Verse Jeremiah 51:2. _AND WILL SEND - FANNERS_] When the corn is trodden out with the feet of cattle, or crushed out with a heavy wheel armed with iron, with a shovel they throw it up against the wind...
FANNERS - Or, winnowers....
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...
FANNERS... FAN. WINNOWERS... WINNOW. Figure of speech _Polyptoton._ App-6....
_strangers_ mg. (with A.V.) _fanners_, which (differing only in vocalisation from the other reading) suits the subsequent verb. So Syr. and Targ. The figure is that of men winnowing corn....
FANNERS, &C.— _Winnowers,_ &c. This image is frequently made use of by the Hebrew prophets to represent the ease with which the Almighty disperses and destroys his enemies. See Isaiah 21:10....
B. Ruthless Destruction Jeremiah 50:41 to Jeremiah 51:5 TRANSLATION (41) Behold, a people shall come from the north, a great nation and many kings shall be stirred up from the distant parts of the ea...
And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. FANNERS - (note, ). The fanners separate the wheat...
51:2 strangers, (b-7) Or 'fanners.'...
1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
FANNERS, THAT SHALL FAN HER. — The Hebrew word as it stands means “strangers,” but a change of the vowel-points would give etymologically “winnowers” or “fanners,” though the word is not found elsewhe...
וְ שִׁלַּחְתִּ֨י לְ בָבֶ֤ל ׀ זָרִים֙ וְ זֵר֔ו
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...
_Fan her. After the corn was trodden out, it was heaved into the wind. This custom would insinuate the distress and captivity of the Chaldeans. Septuagint, "I will send....scoffers, and they shall tre...
I beg the Reader particularly to take notice of this last verse. Amidst all the chastisements of the Lord, and the permission given to the enemies of the Church to oppose her, the Lord's own testimony...
Here he explains himself more clearly, without the metaphor he had used. He no longer uses the similitude of wind when he declares that he would send _fanners _At the same time some take זארים, _zarim...
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...
AND I WILL SEND UNTO BABYLON FARMERS, THAT SHALL FAN HER, AND SHALL EMPTY HER LAND,.... Or, "strangers that shall fan her" c; meaning the Medes and Persians, who should be like a strong wind upon the...
_And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about._ Ver. 2. _And I will send unto Babylon farmers._] W...
_Behold, I will raise up against Babylon_ Darius and Cyrus, who came against Babylon, came by a divine instinct. God excited their spirits to accomplish his purpose against that idolatrous city, and t...
THE THREAT OF JEHOVAH IN ITS VARIOUS FORMS...
and will send unto Babylon fanners, whose work it was to separate the wheat from the chaff by casting up and scattering the threshed grain, THAT SHALL FAN HER AND SHALL EMPTY HER LAND, sweeping away 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...
Wicked men are compared to _chaff_, PSALMS 1:4. Such as execute judgment on them are called _fanners_, JEREMIAH 15:7; so MATTHEW 3:12; because as the fanner keepeth what is in the fan unquiet in a con...
Jeremiah 51:2 send H7971 (H8765) winnowers H2114 (H8801) Babylon H894 winnow H2219 (H8765) empty H1238 ...
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...
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...
Ezekiel 5:12; Isaiah 41:16; Jeremiah 15:7; Jeremiah 50:14; Jere