Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 25:25
Zimri - Probably a district between Arabia and Persia. “Elam” is put in Scripture for the whole of Persia.
Zimri - Probably a district between Arabia and Persia. “Elam” is put in Scripture for the whole of Persia.
Verse Jeremiah 25:25. _ZIMRI_] Descendants of Abraham, by Keturah, Genesis 25:2; Genesis 25:6. _ELAM_] Called Elymais by the Greeks, was on the south frontier of Media, to the north of Susiana, not
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...
The wine-cup of the Lord's fury to be drunk by all the nations. For confusion and dismay, expressed under the figure of intoxication, see below. Overthrow at the hands of the Chaldaeans is to be the...
_and all the kings of Zimri_ LXX omit, and the name is found here only. Du. ingeniously conjectures that it may be a fictitious one intended by a late editor to hint covertly at the Romans, the Hebrew...
C. Judgment on Surrounding Nations Jeremiah 25:15-29 TRANSLATION (15) For thus says the LORD, God of Israel, unto me: Take this cup of wine, wrath, from My hand and cause all the nations to whom I am...
And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes, ZIMRI - perhaps the Zabra mentioned by Ptolemy, between Mecca and Medina. Zimran also, as Dedan, was one of A...
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...
ZIMRI] quite unknown....
ZIMRI. — The name occurs nowhere else in the Bible or out of it as the name of a country. It is possibly connected with Zimran, the eldest son of Abraham by Keturah (Genesis 25:2), and points, therefo...
וְ אֵ֣ת ׀ כָּל ־מַלְכֵ֣י זִמְרִ֗י וְ אֵת֙
CHAPTER XVI JEHOVAH AND THE NATIONS Jeremiah 25:15 "Jehovah hath a controversy with the nations."- Jeremiah 25:31 As the son of a king only learns very gradually that his father's authority and act...
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...
Zambri, sprung from Cethura, and dwelling in Arabia, (Calmet) or Persia, (St. Jerome) where Pliny ([Natural History?] vi. 28.) places the Zamarenians. --- Elam. Persians, (Haydock) by the sword of Ale...
This scripture can need no other comment, than what is contained in Revelation 14:10. By Jeremiah's taking the cup, and making all these nations drink of it, is meant, making them to hear and know tha...
He now mentions nations more remote, but whose fame was more known among the Jews. We, indeed, know that the _Elamites, _who dwelt between Media and Persia, had ever been people of great repute. As to...
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 ALL THE KINGS OF ZIMRI,.... Of Arabia Felix, so called from Zimran, a son of Abraham by Keturah, Genesis 25:2; the same whom Pliny n calls Zamerenes; AND ALL THE KINGS OF ELAM; or Persia; who are...
And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes, Ver. 25. _And all the kings of Zimri,_] _i.e., _ Of Arabia Felix. Zamarens, Pliny _a_ calleth them. _ a_ Lib. v...
_All the kings of Zimri_ Those descended from Zimran, one of Abraham's sons, by Keturah; all of whom he sent to settle in the east country, Genesis 25:2; Genesis 25:6. It is probable that these descen...
THE JUDGMENT ON THE KINGDOMS...
and all the kings of Zimri, probably a country toward the Euphrates, AND ALL THE KINGS OF ELAM, to the east of the Tigris, used for Persia in general, AND ALL THE KINGS OF THE MEDES,...
15-29 The evil and the good events of life are often represented in Scripture as cups. Under this figure is represented the desolation then coming upon that part of the world, of which Nebuchadnezzar...
ALL THE KINGS OF ZIMRI; those descended from Zimran, Abraham's son by Keturah, GENESIS 25:2 (the Zamarens, as some think, mentioned by Pliny). By the Elamites are meant the Persians, descended from Sh...
Jeremiah 25:25 kings H4428 Zimri H2174 kings H4428 Elam H5867 kings H4428 Medes H4074 Zimri -...
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...
ALL THE NATIONS WILL BE MADE TO DRINK FROM THE CUP OF YHWH'S WRATH AGAINST SIN AND IDOLATRY (JEREMIAH 25:15). In these remarkable words the destinies of all nations are seen as in YHWH's hands. And th...
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 25:23 Nations far distant from Judah will be conquered by Babylon. Indeed, ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD shall drink the cup of Babylon’s wrath. Afterward the king of Babylon...
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; Daniel 8:2; Ezekiel 32:24; Genesis 10:22; Genesis 14:1;...
Zimri — Those descended from Zimran, Abraham's son by Keturah, Genesis 25:2. Elam — The Persians. The Medes — The Medes came from Madai the son of Japhet....