Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 51:31
The royal palace was a strong fortification in the heart of the city. The messengers thus met one another.
At one end - Rather, from all sides, entirely, completely.
The royal palace was a strong fortification in the heart of the city. The messengers thus met one another.
At one end - Rather, from all sides, entirely, completely.
Verse Jeremiah 51:31. _ONE POST SHALL RUN TO MEET ANOTHER_] As the city was taken by _surprise_, in the manner already related, so now messengers, one after another, were despatched to give the king...
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...
POST. runner. AT ONE END. Supply the _Ellipsis_ by the word "each", instead of "one". "at [each] end". This will accord with the history; for Herodotus says the Babylonians retired to the city, and "r...
_post_ lit. _runner_. The word survives in this sense in modern English only in the expression _post-haste_. For the sense here cp. "Your native town you entered like a _post_." _Coriolanus_, Act v...
ONE POST SHALL RUN TO MEET ANOTHER— As Babylon was taken by surprise, this occasioned many messengers to run one after another, to acquaint the king with this sudden and unexpected event. Herodotus sa...
III. THE DOOM OF BABYLON Jeremiah 51:27-58 The third section of the Babylon oracle which begins in Jeremiah 51:27 emphasizes the final doom of Babylon. The attack of the enemy is again described in vi...
One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end, ONE POST SHALL RUN TO MEET ANOTHER ... TO SHOW THE KING OF BABYLO...
1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
POST] running messenger. AT _one_ END] RV 'on every quarter.'...
ONE POST SHALL RUN TO MEET ANOTHER. — The words exactly answer to the account of the capture of Babylon given in Herod. i. (see Note on Jeremiah 51:24). The history of Belshazzar’s feast (Daniel 5:1)...
רָ֤ץ לִ קְרַאת ־רָץ֙ יָר֔וּץ וּ מַגִּ֖יד
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...
One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken at (r) [one] end, (r) By turning the course of the river one side was made op...
_King, feasting in his palace, (Herodotus i. 191.) or at Borsippe. (Berosus) He sent to make inquiries, (Calmet) or his subjects hastened to convey the doleful tidings, and thus met each other. (Haydo...
Is not this command to the people of God, to go out of Babylon, the same as gospel precepts, 2 Corinthians 6:17; Revelation 18:4....
This also was fulfilled according to the testimony of heathen authors, as well as of Daniel. They do not indeed repeat these words, but according to the whole tenor of history we may easily conclude t...
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...
ONE POST SHALL RUN TO MEET ANOTHER, AND ONE MESSENGER TO MEET ANOTHER,.... That is, one post should be after another, and one messenger after another, post upon post, and messenger upon messenger, as...
One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at [one] end, Ver. 31. _One post shall run to meet another._] Observe how pun...
_The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight: they have remained_, &c. “The year before the siege of Babylon, Cyrus overthrew Belshazzar in battle, whereupon his army retreated within the walls,...
THE WORK OF THE SPOILERS...
One post, or courier, SHALL RUN TO MEET ANOTHER, AND ONE MESSENGER TO MEET ANOTHER, coming from all parts of the city with their information concerning the taking of the city, TO SHOW THE KING OF BABY...
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...
We have had occasion one and again to recite what we have in civil historians about the taking of Babylon by Cyrus, viz., that it was taken by surprise, by the Median emperor's unexpected diverting th...
Jeremiah 51:31 runner H7323 (H8801) run H7323 (H8799) meet H7125 (H8800) another H7323 (H8801) messenger...
THE BABYLONIAN RESPONSE (JEREMIAH 51:30). As already mentioned Gobryas, the Persian general, took the city of Babylon by stealth, having diverted the water course that led into the city, thus being ab...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 51:31 Several messengers tell Babylon’s KING the same news: the city is surrounded, the water escape routes are cut off, and the places of hiding (MARSHES) have been torched....
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...
1 Samuel 4:12; 2 Chronicles 30:6; 2 Samuel 18:19; Daniel 5:2;...
At one end — Cyrus entered the city at one end, by the channel of the river, which he had drained, and surprized Belshazzar in the midst of his feast....