Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 50:41
Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from (c) the ends of the earth.
(c) Meaning, that the Persians would gather their army from many nations.
Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from (c) the ends of the earth.
(c) Meaning, that the Persians would gather their army from many nations.
Verse Jeremiah 50:41. _BEHOLD, A PEOPLE SHALL COME FROM THE NORTH_] This and the two following verses are nearly the same with Jeremiah 6:22. But _here_, destroyers against _Babylon_ are intended; _th...
An application to Babylon of the doom against Jerusalem Jeremiah 6:22. Jeremiah 50:41 THE COASTS OF THE EARTH - See the Jeremiah 6:22 note....
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...
A GREAT NATION: i.e. Medo-Persia. COASTS. sides: i.e. remote parts....
_a people_ the Persians. See reference in mg. _from the north_ Cp. Jeremiah 50:9....
A repetition, with the necessary changes, of Jeremiah 6:22-24, where Jerusalem is the object of the threat. See notes there....
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...
Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth. BEHOLD, A PEOPLE SHALL COME FORTH FROM THE NORTH ... THEY SHALL HOLD...
THE FALL OF BABYLON AND THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL The prophecy concerning Babylon is ascribed to Jeremiah in Jeremiah 51:59. This, however, need not mean more than that it represents the tone of Jerem...
הִנֵּ֛ה עַ֥ם בָּ֖א מִ צָּפֹ֑ון וְ גֹ֤וי
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...
The last of the prophecies concerning the nations has to do with Babylon. Throughout the whole of Jeremiah's prophetic utterances, she has been seen as the instrument of God's judgment. Finally, on ac...
I must not detain the Reader, by entering upon the many interesting particulars here enumerated of God's judgments upon Babylon. I only briefly observe, that the history of that kingdom hath fully sho...
The Prophet again shows whence destruction was to come on the Babylonians. He does not indeed mention Cyrus, as Isaiah does (Isaiah 44:28), nor does he mention the Persians; but he evidently points ou...
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...
BEHOLD, A PEOPLE SHALL COME FROM THE NORTH, AND A GREAT NATION,.... The Modes and Persians, whose country lay north of Babylon: Jeremiah 50:9; AND MANY KINGS SHALL BE RAISED UP FROM THE COASTS OF THE...
Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth. Ver. 41. _Behold, a people shall come from the north._] As Jeremiah 50:...
_Behold, a people shall come from the north_ Namely, the Medes; _and a great nation_ That is, who are a great nation; for this is no more than an explicative of the foregoing sentence. _And many kings...
Behold, a people shall come from the North, the armies of the Modes and Persians, AND A GREAT NATION AND MANY KINGS SHALL BE RAISED UP FROM THE COASTS OF THE EARTH, from the remote parts of Asia....
THE ENEMIES OF BABYLON SUMMONED TO THE ATTACK...
33-46 It is Israel's comfort in distress, that, though they are weak, their Redeemer is strong. This may be applied to believers, who complain of the dominion of sin and corruption, and of their own...
The Medes and Persians with their armies, who shall also have many other kings who, from the several parts of the earth, shall join with them and help them....
Jeremiah 50:41 people H5971 come H935 (H8802) north H6828 great H1419 nation H1471 many H7227 kings H4428 up...
YHWH'S JUDGMENT ON BABYLON AND HIS PROMISES CONCERNING THE RESTORATION OF THE REMNANT OF HIS PEOPLE (JEREMIAH 50:1 TO JEREMIAH 51:64). The series of prophecies against the nations had commenced with t...
THE INVADERS FROM THE NORTH BEFORE WHOM BABYLON WILL QUAIL AND WHO WILL FINALLY TAKE BABYLON (JEREMIAH 50:41). We must not judge ancient descriptions in terms of modern geography. They had no atlases...
CONTENTS: Prophecies against Babylon and Chaldea. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, King of Assyria, Nebuchadrezzar. CONCLUSION: The pride of men's hearts sets God against them and ripens them in due time f...
Jeremiah 50:1. _The word that the Lord spake against Babylon._ Messiah in person spake to the prophet, as is stated in Jeremiah 48:1. But while he spake against Babylon, his lips dropped with grace an...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—This and the following chapter constitute one prophecy against Babylon; and the date of its authorship is given in chap. Jeremiah 51:59: “t...
Jeremiah 50:1. AND 51. ON BABYLON. EXPOSITION We have now reached a point at which some reference is necessary to the centre versies of the so called "higher criticism." An attempt must be made to pu...
Shall we turn now to Jeremiah chapter 50. Chapter 50 begins with the words, The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet (Jeremiah 50:1)....
Isaiah 13:17; Isaiah 13:18; Isaiah 13:2; Jeremiah 25:14; Jeremiah 5