Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 25:31
A noise - The trampling of an army in motion. Compare Amos 2:2.
A controversy - i. e., a suit at law.
Will plead - Or, will hold judgment. As judge He delivers the wicked to the sword.
A noise - The trampling of an army in motion. Compare Amos 2:2.
A controversy - i. e., a suit at law.
Will plead - Or, will hold judgment. As judge He delivers the wicked to the sword.
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...
PLEAD WITH. judge. WICKED. lawless. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44....
The judgement to come upon all the peoples of the earth. The description is characterized by Oriental hyperbole. A considerable amount is adapted from elsewhere, and the eschatological character of th...
_A noise_ lit. a crash, battle-din. So in Jeremiah 51:55; Isaiah 13:4; Isaiah 17:12; Hosea 10:14;...
D. Judgment on the World Jeremiah 25:30-38 TRANSLATION (30) But as for you, prophesy unto them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD from on high will roar, and from His holy habitation He wil...
A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD. TH...
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...
PLEAD] in a legal sense, judge....
A NOISE. — i.e., the tumult of an advancing army (Isaiah 13:4; Isaiah 17:12). A CONTROVERSY. — The term properly denotes a legal process, like the “pleading” of Jeremiah 2:9;...
בָּ֤א שָׁאֹון֙ עַד ־קְצֵ֣ה הָ אָ֔רֶץ כִּ֣י
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...
_Flesh. He will justify his conduct, particularly at the last day._...
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 pursues the same subject; he says that there would be a dreadful assault, and that it would extend to the extreme parts of the earth. The word שאון, _shaun, _means a noise or sound; but it is also...
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...
A NOISE SHALL COME UP [EVEN] TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH,.... Wars, and rumours of wars, everywhere, till the cup has gone round, and all nations have drank of it, and have felt the power of divine wrath...
A noise shall come [even] to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them [that are] wicked to the sword, saith the LORD. V...
_The Lord shall roar from on high_ Shall manifest his anger from heaven. God speaks by his judgments, and those, when they are very terrible, may be fitly compared to the roaring of a lion, which stri...
THE JUDGMENT UPON THE WORLD...
A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth, that is, the tumult of enormous armies; FOR THE LORD HATH A CONTROVERSY WITH THE NATIONS, a cause at issue before the tribunal of His justice; HE WILL...
30-38 The Lord has just ground of controversy with every nation and every person; and he will execute judgment on all the wicked. Who can avoid trembling when God speaks in displeasure? The days are...
There shall be such confusion, and noises as shall ring over all the world; for God's quarrel is not against the Jews only, but other nations also. Nor will he in any thing he doth act unjustly; if th...
Jeremiah 25:31 noise H7588 come H935 (H8804) ends H7097 LORD H3068 controversy H7379 nations H1471 case H8199 ...
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...
YHWH WILL ROAR FROM HEAVEN AND THE EARTH WILL FACE ITS JUDGMENT (JEREMIAH 25:30). What is coming on the world is pictured in terms of ‘universal' catastrophe, as so often in the prophets. The idea is...
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...
_He will plead with all flesh._ NO EXCUSE NEEDED FOR FAITH IN GOD I. God pleads with men chiefly through the Spirit of the life of Jesus Christ. This part of our life is a probation, like being at sc...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 25:31 God’s voice will reach the ENDS OF THE EARTH, for his INDICTMENT of sin encompasses ALL FLESH. His SWORD will touch a
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...
Ezekiel 20:35; Ezekiel 20:36; Ezekiel 38:22; Hosea 12:2; Hosea 4:1;...