The Chapter opens with God's denunciation against Babylon: Israel at this time was in captivity in Babylon. But the hour is now hastening when Babylon is to be destroyed, and Israel delivered. Bel and Merodach, their two great idols, shall be destroyed.
CHAPTER L _This and the following chapter contain a prophecy relating to_ _the fall of Babylon, interspersed with several predictions_ _relative to the restoration of Israel and Judah, who were to_...
AGAINST ... AGAINST - Concerning....
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...
THE FIFTIETH PROPHECY OF JEREMIAH (see book comments for Jeremiah). THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4. and. Some codices, with three early printed editions, Aramaean, Syriac, and Vulgate, read this...
THE WORD THAT THE LORD SPAKE AGAINST BABYLON— After having announced to the Philistines, Edomites, and other people, the evils which they should suffer from Nebuchadrezzar, Jeremiah proceeds to forete...
CHAPTER NINETEEN GOD AND BABYLON Jeremiah 50:1 to Jeremiah 51:64 e Eichorn was the first to deny the authenticity of Chapter s 50-51 and he has been followed by most modern critics. Cornill affirms...
The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. After the predictions of judgment to be inflicted on other nations by Babylon, follows th...
50:1 concerning (a-6) concerning (a-8) Or 'against.'...
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...
BY JEREMIAH THE PROPHET. — Literally, _by the hand of Jeremiah._ The phrase is not found elsewhere in Jeremiah’s writings, with the one exception of Jeremiah 37:2. It probably indicates that the proph...
הַ דָּבָ֗ר אֲשֶׁ֨ר דִּבֶּ֧ר יְהוָ֛ה אֶל ־בָּב
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...
_Prophet. He had spoken against them in the fourth year of Joachim, and now is more explicit in the fourth of Sedecias, (chap. li. 60.) sending his predictions to be read, and then thrown into the Eup...
Our Prophet has been hitherto speaking of neighboring nations who had cruelly harassed the chosen people; and it was some consolation when the children of Abraham understood that God undertook their c...
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...
THE WORD THAT THE LORD SPAKE AGAINST BABYLON,.... Or "to", of "of Babylon" c; the city of Babylon, the metropolis of the Chaldean empire; sometimes it signifies the whole country, here the city only,...
The word that the LORD spake against Babylon [and] against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. Ver. 1. _The word that the Lord spake against Babylon._] Which was built by Nimrod, as Ni...
_The word that the Lord spake against Babylon_ This prophecy was delivered and sent to Babylon in the fourth year of Zedekiah's reign, as appears from Jeremiah 51:59. _Declare ye among the nations_ Th...
The word that the Lord spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah, the prophet, when Seraiah, to whom it was committed, was sent to Babylon, 51:59-60. It seems that the va...
CHALDEA PUNISHED; ISRAEL REDEEMED...
BY JEREMIAH: _ Heb._ by the hand of Jeremiah...
1-7 The king of Babylon was kind to Jeremiah, yet the prophet must foretell the ruin of that kingdom. If our friends are God's enemies, we dare not speak peace to them. The destruction of Babylon is...
JEREMIAH CHAPTER 50 The judgment of Babel, and the land of Chaldea, for their idolatry, tyranny, and pride; with gracious promises of the redemption of Israel intermixed, JEREMIAH 50:4,5,19,20,34. The...
Jeremiah 50:1 word H1697 LORD H3068 spoke H1696 (H8765) Babylon H894 land H776 Chaldeans H3778 by H3027 Jeremiah...
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...
INTRODUCTORY WORDS (JEREMIAH 50:1). Jeremiah 50:1 ‘The word that YHWH spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet: The importance of these wor...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 50:1 BABYLON IS TAKEN. Persia conquered Babylon in 539 B.C. (Isaiah 13:1;...
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)....
2 Peter 1:21; 2 Samuel 23:2; Acts 7:4; Genesis 11:31; Habakkuk 2:5;...