Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 51:49
Render, “As Babylon caused the slain of Israel to fall, so because of Babylon, hare fallen the slain of (or, in) the whole earth.” Babylon has to answer for the general carnage caused by its wars.
Render, “As Babylon caused the slain of Israel to fall, so because of Babylon, hare fallen the slain of (or, in) the whole earth.” Babylon has to answer for the general carnage caused by its wars.
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...
ALL THE EARTH. Compare Isaiah 14:16; Isaiah 14:17....
_As Babylon … so at, etc_.] better, as mg. _Both Babylon is to fall, O ye slain of Israel, and at, etc_., or, repeating a Heb. consonant, _for the slain of Israel_. The ground for Babylon's overthrow...
The LXX omit from "yea, the wall" (Jeremiah 51:44) to "the slain of Israel to fall" (Jeremiah 51:49), but the omission is probably accidental, the scribe's eye passing from the first "Babylon shall fa...
SO AT BABYLON SHALL FALL THE SLAIN OF ALL THE EARTH— _So through Babylon have fallen the slain of the whole earth._ The reason is here assigned, why the heavens and the earth, and all that were therei...
D. Babylon's Retribution and Israel's Return Jeremiah 51:47-53 TRANSLATION (47) Therefore, the days are coming when I will punish the images of Babylon, and all her land shall be put to shame; her sl...
As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth. AS BABYLON HATH CAUSED THE SLAIN OF ISRAEL TO FALL - literally, has been for the falling; i:...
1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
AS BABYLON HATH CAUSED... — The interpolated words and the marginal reading indicate that the construction is obscure, but the Authorised version probably comes close to the meaning of the original. T...
גַּם ־בָּבֶ֕ל לִ נְפֹּ֖ל חַֽלְלֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל...
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...
As Babylon [hath caused] the (d) slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth. (d) Babylon not only destroyed Israel, but many other nations....
If the Reader will compare what is here said, with what is said of mystic Babylon in the New Testament, he will soon perceive what a striking resemblance there is between things temporal and spiritual...
THE words literally read thus, “As Babylon, that they might fall, the slain of Israel, so for Babylon they shall fall, the slain of all the lands.” Some, omitting the ל, _lamed, _in the second clause,...
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...
AS BABYLON [HATH CAUSED] THE SLAIN OF ISRAEL,.... In Jerusalem, when that city was taken the Chaldeans, and destroyed: SO AT BABYLON SHALL ALL THE SLAIN OF ALL THE EARTH; or "land"; that is, the land...
As Babylon [hath caused] the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth. Ver. 49. _So at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth._] Or rather, Of all the land...
_Therefore behold_, or rather, _Then soon, the days come that I will do judgment upon the graven images_, &c. That is, cause the statues of the gods of Babylon to be broken to pieces, or carried away....
As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, being engaged in their slaughter, SO AT BABYLON, by a just recompense, SHALL FALL THE SLAIN OF ALL THE EARTH, for representatives of the various nat...
THE WORK OF THE SPOILERS...
AS BABYLON HATH CAUSED THE SLAIN OF ISRAEL TO FALL: Or, both Babylon is to fall, O ye slain of Israel, and with Babylon, etc. THE EARTH: Or, the country...
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...
The words in the Hebrew have some difficulty, which is not so obvious to those not acquainted with that language, but hath given occasion to interpreters to vary in their particular translations of it...
Jeremiah 51:49 As H1571 Babylon H894 slain H2491 Israel H3478 fall H5307 (H8800) Babylon H894 slain H2491 earth...
THE REASONS FOR BABYLON'S DEMISE (JEREMIAH 51:47). We now learn again the reasons for Babylon's demise. It was because of her graven images (Jeremiah 51:47), with all their para-normal ramifications ...
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 51:49 BABYLON made other nations drink the cup of God’s wrath (Jeremiah 25:15), and soon Babylon will drink the same cup ...
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...
James 2:13; Jeremiah 51:10; Jeremiah 51:11; Jeremiah 51:24;...
Of all the earth — This term must be understood in a restrained sense; the Chaldeans coming up from all parts of Chaldea to help Babylon, were slain there, as by the means of Babylon the Israelites we...