Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 51:3
The man who bends the bow, and the heavy-armed soldier who vaunts himself in his coat of mail (Jeremiah 46:4 note), represent the Babylonians who defend the city.
The man who bends the bow, and the heavy-armed soldier who vaunts himself in his coat of mail (Jeremiah 46:4 note), represent the Babylonians who defend the city.
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...
AGAINST HIM THAT BENDETH, &C. The _Massorah_ (App-30), instead of cancelling the repeated word "against... and against" _('el),_ directs the substitution of _'al,_ "not... and not". The verse will the...
_Let not the archer bend his bow, and let him not lift himself up, etc_.] As the mg., when compared with the text, suggests, the Heb. is difficult. It is in fact ungrammatical and probably corrupt. It...
AGAINST HIM THAT BENDETH— _Let not him who bendeth the bow relax his hand; let him not put off his armour._ Houbigant. _AND AGAINST HIM THAT LIFTETH HIMSELF UP IN HIS BRIGANDINE_— _And let him not lif...
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...
Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host. AGAINST HIM THAT B...
1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
_Him that_ BENDETH] i.e. his bow in defence of Babylon. BRIGANDINE] coat of mail....
LET THE ARCHER BEND HIS BOW. — The words represent the sense of the original, but the Hebrew word for “archer” is literally _bender,_ and so the iteration of the verb gains its full rhetorical force....
אֶֽל־_יִדְרֹ֤ךְ_† הַ דֹּרֵךְ֙ קַשְׁתֹּ֔ו וְ אֶל...
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...
Mail. There will be little or no resistance made, chap. l. 3. (Haydock) --- The Persians denounce destruction to all taken in arms; or, according to Septuagint and Syriac they exhort each other to fig...
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...
Interpreters give various expositions of this verse. Some understand a soldier of light armor by _him who bends the bow; _and by him who _elevates himself in his coat of mail, _they understand a heavy...
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...
AGAINST [HIM THAT] BENDETH LET THE ARCHER BEND HIS BOW,.... These are either the words of the Lord to the Medes and Persians, to the archers among them, to bend their bows and level their arrows again...
Against [him that] bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against [him that] lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host. Ver. 3. _Against...
_Against him that bendeth let the archer bend_ See Jeremiah 50:14; _and against him, that lifteth up himself in his brigandine_ Or, _coat of mail:_ suffer not them who are skilful in using the bow, or...
THE THREAT OF JEHOVAH IN ITS VARIOUS FORMS...
Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, sure to put to death every one who attempts resistance, AND AGAINST HIM THAT LIFTETH HIMSELF UP IN HIS BRIGANDINE, having put on his armor for bat...
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...
Whatever arms the Babylonians shall be armed with, they shall meet with their matches; those that are archers shall meet with archers to bend the bow against them, and those who are otherwise armed sh...
Jeremiah 51:3 archer H1869 (H8802) bend H1869 (H8799) bow H7198 up H5927 (H8691) armor H5630 spare...
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...
Deuteronomy 32:25; Isaiah 13:10; James 2:13; Jeremiah 46:4;...