Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 25:24
And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed people that dwell in the (t) desert,
(t) For there were two countries so named, the one called plentiful and the other barren, or desert.
And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed people that dwell in the (t) desert,
(t) For there were two countries so named, the one called plentiful and the other barren, or desert.
Verse Jeremiah 25:24. _THE MINGLED PEOPLE_] Probably the _Scenite Arabians_....
ARABIA - That part which bordered on Palestine, and was inhabited mainly by Ishmaelites. THE MINGLED PEOPLE - Compare the Jeremiah 25:20 note. In Arabia there seem to have been many tribes of Cushite...
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...
The wine-cup of the Lord's fury to be drunk by all the nations. For confusion and dismay, expressed under the figure of intoxication, see below. Overthrow at the hands of the Chaldaeans is to be the...
_and all the kings of Arabia_ LXX omit. _Arabia_ lit. dwellers in the _steppes_(ăr âbâh), "a tribe (or group of tribes) somewhere in N. Arabia; cf. Isaiah 21:13 … after Old Testament times it was gra...
THE MINGLED PEOPLE THAT DWELL IN THE DESERT— _The Scenites_ or _inhabitants of tents, who dwell,_ &c. Houbigant. That is, the mixture of people dwelling in that part of Arabia called the _Desert;_ con...
C. Judgment on Surrounding Nations Jeremiah 25:15-29 TRANSLATION (15) For thus says the LORD, God of Israel, unto me: Take this cup of wine, wrath, from My hand and cause all the nations to whom I am...
And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert, MINGLED PEOPLE - not in the same sense as ; the motley crowd, so called in contempt (cf. ; ;...
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...
ALL THE KINGS OF ARABIA. — The same phrase occurs in 1 Kings 10:15, and is used for the nomadic tribes bordering on Palestine rather than in the wider sense of classical geographers....
וְ אֵ֖ת כָּל ־מַלְכֵ֣י עֲרָ֑ב וְ אֵת֙
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...
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...
The Prophet now mentions the _kings of Arabia, _who were neighbors on one side to the Jews. He has hitherto mentioned nations towards the sea; he has named many maritime towns, and also others which w...
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...
AND ALL THE KINGS OF ARABIA,.... Of Arabia Petraea; AND ALL THE KINGS OF THE MINGLED PEOPLE THAT DWELL IN THE DESERT; the other Arabians or mixed people, that dwell in Arabia Deserta, as the Scenites...
And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert, Ver. 24. _And all the kings of Arabia._] Petraea. _ That dwell in the desert._] In Arabia Deserta....
_And all the kings of Tyrus and Zidon_ The nobles, or chief men of each city, seem to be meant by kings here, for neither of these cities had more than one king. _And the kings of the isles, which are...
and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert, where tribes no longer were of pure blood,...
THE JUDGMENT ON THE KINGDOMS...
15-29 The evil and the good events of life are often represented in Scripture as cups. Under this figure is represented the desolation then coming upon that part of the world, of which Nebuchadnezzar...
ALL THE KINGS OF ARABIA; there were several kings in Arabia, 2 CHRONICLES 9:14. ALL THE KINGS OF THE MINGLED PEOPLE THAT DWELL IN THE DESERT; people of several nations that were got together in the de...
Jeremiah 25:24 kings H4428 Arabia H6152 kings H4428 multitude H6153 dwell H7931 (H8802) desert H4057 Arabia -...
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...
ALL THE NATIONS WILL BE MADE TO DRINK FROM THE CUP OF YHWH'S WRATH AGAINST SIN AND IDOLATRY (JEREMIAH 25:15). In these remarkable words the destinies of all nations are seen as in YHWH's hands. And th...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 25:23 Nations far distant from Judah will be conquered by Babylon. Indeed, ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD shall drink the cup of Babylon’s wrath. Afterward the king of Babylon...
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...
1 Kings 10:15; 2 Chronicles 9:14; Ezekiel 27:21; Ezekiel 30:5;...