My battle ax] Many commentators think that Babylon is meant, but as Babylon is in this passage not the instrument but the object of God's vengeance (Jeremiah 51:24), it seems more natural to regard Cyrus as indicated here. Will I break] rather, 'I break.'
Verse Jeremiah 51:20. _THOU_ ART _MY BATTLE AXE_] I believe _Nebuchadnezzar_ is meant, who is called, Jeremiah 50:23, the _hammer_ of the whole earth. Others think the words are spoken of _Cyrus_. Al...
Or, Thou art my maul, weapons of war etc. The maul or mace Proverbs 25:18 only differs from the hammer Jeremiah 50:23 in being used for warlike purposes. Omit the “will” in “will I break.” The crushin...
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...
MY BATTLE AXE: or, My hammer, i.e. Cyrus. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ WITH THEE WILL. BREAK IN PIECES. with thee will. beat down. Note the Figure of speech _Anaphora_, by which ten successive...
_battle axe_ mg. _maul_, a war-club, mace. "The Assyrian mace was a short thin weapon, and must either have been made of a very tough wood, or and this is more probable of metal. It had an ornamented...
Is it (_a_) Cyrus, as conqueror of Babylon, or (_b_) Babylon herself, that is addressed? Jeremiah 51:24 seems to support (_a_), but on the whole (_b_) is perhaps preferable. The future tenses can as w...
THOU ART MY BATTLE-AXE— _Thou hast broken for me the weapons of war; I have broken by thee the nations, and destroyed kingdoms;_ Houbigant: who renders the following verses also to the 24th in the per...
D. Divine Destruction Jeremiah 51:11-26 TRANSLATION (11) Polish the arrows! Fill the shields! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the king of the Medes; for His purpose is against Babylon to destroy i...
Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; THOU ART MY BATTLE-AX ... - (note, ). WITH THEE WILL I BREAK IN...
THOU ART MY BATTLE AX... — Better, _my mace._ The axe is not found on Assyrian monuments as a weapon of war till a comparatively late period. It is a question who is thus addressed — Babylon, or Cyrus...
מַפֵּץ ־אַתָּ֣ה לִ֔י כְּלֵ֖י מִלְחָמָ֑ה וְ נִ
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...
Thou [art] my (n) battle axe [and] weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; (n) He means the Medes and Persians, as before he called th...
_Thou, Cyrus, (Grotius) or more commonly the Chaldeans are understood._...
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....
The Prophet here obviates the doubts of many; for as he had spoken of the destruction of Babylon, it might have been readily objected, that the monarchy which was fortified by so many defenses, and wh...
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...
THOU [ART] MY BATTLE AXE [AND] WEAPONS OF WAR,.... This is said by the Lord, either to Cyrus, as some, to which our version inclines, whom God made use of as an instrument to subdue nations and kingdo...
Thou [art] my battle axe [and] weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; Ver. 20. _Thou art my battle axe, and weapon of war._] _Cestra...
_Thou art my battle-axe_, &c. Cyrus, or rather the army of the Medes and Persians, seems to be intended here; compare Jeremiah 51:11; as elsewhere the instrument of God's vengeance is called a _sword_...
THE THREAT OF JEHOVAH IN ITS VARIOUS FORMS...
Thou art My battle-ax, a hammer, a club used for total destruction, AND WEAPONS OF WAR, all instruments of warfare being comprehended in this term; FOR WITH THEE WILL I BREAK IN PIECES THE NATIONS, AN...
WITH THEE: Or, in thee, or by thee...
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...
Interpreters are here divided, whether by THOU or THEE in this and the following verses to understand Cyrus, whom God made use of to destroy Babylon and many other places, or Babylon. Our translators...
Jeremiah 51:20 battle-ax H4661 weapons H3627 war H4421 break H5310 nation H1471 pieces H5310 (H8765) destroy H7843
YHWH'S WAR-CLUB (JEREMIAH 51:20). The speaker here is clearly YHWH. What is more difficult to determine is the identity of God's ‘war-club and weapons of war'. Note that the pronouns are singular. (‘T...
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 51:20 In the past Babylon was God’s HAMMER, or instrument of judgment (Jeremiah 50:23). Now a new nation will play that role as B
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...
Isaiah 10:15; Isaiah 10:5; Isaiah 13:5; Isaiah 14:5; Isaiah 14:6;...