Seventy years - The duration of the Babylonian empire was really a little short of this period. But the 70 years are usually calculated down to the time when the Jews were permitted to return to their country (compare Jeremiah 29:10).
Verse Jeremiah 25:11. _SHALL SERVE THE KING OF BABYLON SEVENTY YEARS._] As this prophecy was delivered in the _fourth_ year of Jehoiakim, and in the _first_ of Nebuchadnezzar, and began to be accompl...
CHAPTER 25 The Seventy Years' Captivity and the Judgment of the Nations _ 1. The retrospect (Jeremiah 25:1) _ 2. The seventy years' captivity announced (Jeremiah 25:8) 3. The punishment of Babylon...
JEREMIAH 25. THE SUPREMACY OF BABYLON OVER JUDAH AND THE NATIONS. Jeremiah 25:1. In the year 604 (after the Babylonian victory over Egypt at Carchemish, 605 B.C., _cf._ Jeremiah 46:2), Jeremiah public...
AND. Some codices, with three early printed editions, Syriac, and Vulgate, read this "and" in the text. SEVENTY YEARS. From 496 to 426. See the special note on 2 Chronicles 36:21....
Babylon's victory and subsequent ruin....
_and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon_ LXX have, "and they shall be servants among the heathen," thus omitting "these," and "the king of Babylon," and probably indicating the original for...
SEVENTY YEARS— Not only the captivity and restoration of the two tribes were foretold, but the precise time of that captivity and restoration was also prefixed and determined by our prophet. This prop...
II. GOD AND THE WORLD RULER Jeremiah 25:1-38 Chapter 25 is one of the most important Chapter s in the entire book. A great deal can be learned about the message of Jeremiah from this single chapter. A...
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. SEVENTY YEARS - (). The exact number of years of Sabbaths in 490 yea...
JEREMIAH'S FOURTEENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF JEHOIAKIM). THE WINE CUP OF GOD'S FURY We have here the first closely dated prophecy, taking us back from Zedekih's reign to the fourth year of Jehoiakim, betw...
SEVENTY YEARS] for the definite number cp. Jeremiah 29:10. The Jewish love for round numbers would lead them to consider the number seventy used in such a connexion as standing for any approximation t...
SHALL SERVE THE KING OF BABYLON SEVENTY-YEARS. — This is the first mention of the duration of the captivity. The seventy years are commonly reckoned from B.C. 606, the date of the deportation of Jehoi...
וְ הָֽיְתָה֙ כָּל ־הָ אָ֣רֶץ הַ זֹּ֔את
Still speaking to Zedekiah, Jeremiah reminded him of the word which came in the fourth year of Jehoiakim. It was a message announcing the judgment of God against Judah, Babylon, the nations, the world...
Years. Ver. 1. The neighbouring nations were also involved in this calamity, and were to be sent back by Cyrus. (Calmet) --- Another period of 70 years is specified, (chap. xxix. 10.) during which the...
I pray the Reader to observe, how the King of Babylon is called the Lord's servant. Yes! for the Lord will serve himself of his enemies, when the purposes of his sacred will, render it necessary. In t...
Here the Prophet mentions the restriction of which I have spoken, and thus he mitigates the severity of their punishment. It is, then, a kind of correction; not that he changes anything, but only by t...
Chapter 25 closes, so to say, this part of the prophecy with a general summary of God's judgments on the earth, giving it into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. The immediate application to events already a...
AND THIS WHOLE LAND SHALL BE A DESOLATION,.... Not only the city of Jerusalem, but all Judea, without inhabitants, or very few, and shall be uncultivated, and become barren and unfruitful: [AND] AN A...
And this whole land shall be a desolation, [and] an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. Ver. 11. And this land shall be a desolation - seventy years.] Which...
_These nations shall serve the king of Babylon_ That is, Nebuchadnezzar and his successors, collectively considered; _seventy years_ “This period of the nation's servitude must be computed from the de...
THE JUDGMENT ON JUDAH...
And this whole land shall be a desolation, the territory not only of Judah, but of the surrounding nations as well, AND AN ASTONISHMENT, a source of amazement to all beholders; AND THESE NATIONS, Juda...
8-14 The fixing of the time during which the Jewish captivity should last, would not only confirm the prophecy, but also comfort the people of God, and encourage faith and prayer. The ruin of Babylon...
This prophecy is a famous prophecy in regard of its fixing the particular space of time in which the Jews abode in the captivity of Babylon, viz. SEVENTY YEARS. When they determined we are plainly eno...
Jeremiah 25:11 land H776 desolation H2723 astonishment H8047 nations H1471 serve H5647 (H8804) king H4428 Babylon H89
JEREMIAH'S WARNING TO THE PEOPLE CONCERNING THEIR FUTURE (JEREMIAH 25:3). Jeremiah 25:3 ‘From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these three and twenty ye...
SUBSECTION 8). JEREMIAH SUMMARISES HIS MINISTRY BEFORE THE PEOPLE AND AFTER DECLARING WHAT IS TO COME ON JUDAH PROCLAIMS THE JUDGMENT OF YHWH THAT IS COMING ON ALL NATIONS (JEREMIAH 25:1). This final...
SEVENTY YEARS Compare (Leviticus 26:33); (2 Chronicles 36:21); (Daniel 9:2) The 70 years may be reckoned to begin with the first deportation of Judah to Babylon. ...
CONTENTS: Prophecy of seventy years' captivity. Sign of the wine cup of fury. CHARACTERS: Jeremiah, Jehoiakim, Nebuchadnezzar, Pharaoh. CONCLUSION: Men would never receive from God the desolating pu...
Jeremiah 25:1. _In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the first year of Nebuchadrezzar._ Daniel says the third year, Daniel 1:1. The campaign could not be less than a year; the variation arises from the per...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 25:11 SEVENTY YEARS. This is probably counted from the first exile in 605 B.C. to the first return, variously dated from 538 to 535 ...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER: “_Fourth year of Jehoiakim_” (Jeremiah 25:1). It is stated the _third_ year in Daniel 1:1; but Hales (“Sacred Chron.”) shows that Jehoiakim...
EXPOSITION This chapter may be illustrated by a comparison of it with Jeremiah 46:1. There Jeremiah exults ever the destruction of a nation (Egypt) which was one of the chief enemies of God's people,...
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim (Jeremiah 25:1). So now we're going back in time. This was before Zedekiah was king. This was when Jeh...
2 Chronicles 36:21; 2 Chronicles 36:22; Daniel 7:2; Isaiah 23:15;...