Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 25:14
Shall serve themselves of them also - i. e., shall impose forced labor upon the Chaldaeans, and reduce them also to servitude.
Shall serve themselves of them also - i. e., shall impose forced labor upon the Chaldaeans, and reduce them also to servitude.
Verse Jeremiah 25:14. _MANY NATIONS AND GREAT KINGS_] The _Medes_ and the _Persians_, under Cyrus; and several princes, his vassals or allies....
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...
OF THEM: i.e. of the Chaldeans....
_shall serve themselves of them, even of them_ lit. _shall work by_(means of) _them_, i.e. shall use them as slaves. As the Chaldaeans have done to the people of God, so shall He requite them....
Babylon's victory and subsequent ruin....
See end of introductory note to this section. Of these _vv_., 12 and 14, as well as the latter part of 13, cannot be a genuine part of Jeremiah's prophecies, to be dated, like the earlier part of the...
FOR MANY NATIONS— _For of them, even of these, shall many nations and great kings exact service; and I will render to them,_ &c. Houbigant renders it, _For powerful people, and mighty kings, shall red...
B. Judgment on Babylon Jeremiah 25:12-14 TRANSLATION (12) But it shall come to pass when seventy years are completed I will visit upon the king of Babylon, even upon that nation, their iniquity, even...
For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands. MANY NATIONS AND GREAT KING...
25:14 also; (a-12) Or 'shall reduce them to servitude, even them.'...
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...
OF THEM] viz. of the Chaldeans. As they have done to the people of God, so shall it be done to them. 15-29. The wine cup of God's fury to be drunk by the nations....
SHALL SERVE THEMSELVES OF THEM. — Better, _shall make them their servants._ The English “serve themselves” (a Gallicism in common use in the seventeenth century), which occurs again in Jeremiah 27:7,...
כִּ֣י עָֽבְדוּ ־בָ֤ם גַּם ־הֵ֨מָּה֙ גֹּויִ֣ם...
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...
For many nations and great kings shall be (l) served by them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands. (l) That is of the Babylonians a...
_Kings. They perfidiously joined the Chaldeans, after making a league with Sedecias, chap. xxvii. 3. This is condemned, (Calmet) and not precisely their submitting to Nabuchodonosor, chap. xxviii. 8....
Here is a gracious promise, (and which was most faithfully fulfilled in the season) given with a view to support the minds of the faithful, during their long captivity. I pray the Reader to mark it do...
_DIVINE RECOMPENSE_ ‘According to their deeds.’ Jeremiah 25:14 I. THE REPETITION OF GOD’S ENTREATIES THROUGH JEREMIAH, TO ARREST THE DOWNWARD PROGRESS OF HIS PEOPLE, IS VERY TOUCHING.—For three- an...
The beginning of the verse is obscure. When the verb עבד, _obed, _is followed by ב, _beth, _they think that it is to be taken actively, and rendered, to force or drive to bondage. It means properly, 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...
FOR MANY NATIONS AND GREAT KINGS SHALL SERVE THEMSELVES OF THEM ALSO,.... Take their cities, seize upon the kingdoms, spoil them of their wealth and riches, and bring them into servitude to them: thes...
For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands. Ver. 14. _For many nations._]...
_When seventy years are accomplished, I will punish the king of Babylon_ “God often punishes the persons whom he makes instruments of his vengeance upon others for those very things which they did by...
THE JUDGMENT ON THE KINGDOMS...
For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also, that is, the Chaldeans themselves would, in turn, become servants to others, so that their masters would exact the service of vass...
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...
God threateneth the destruction of that monarchy by the Persians, according to the prophecy of this prophet, and declareth that their destruction was of themselves, God did but recompense unto them th...
Jeremiah 25:14 many H7227 nations H1471 great H1419 kings H4428 served H5647 (H8804) repay H7999 ...
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...
BABYLON HERSELF WILL EVENTUALLY BE SUBJECT TO YHWH'S JUDGMENT (JEREMIAH 25:12). Jeremiah 25:12 “And it will come about, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, an...
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 25:14 MANY NATIONS. Persia and its allies. GREAT KINGS. Cyrus and his successors. ⇐
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...
Daniel 5:28; Habakkuk 2:8; Isaiah 14:2; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 66:6;...