What does Jeremiah 51:32 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted."
Verse Jeremiah 51:32. _THAT THE PASSAGES ARE STOPPED_] Either the _bridges_ or _slips_ for boats, by which the inhabitants passed from one side to the other, and may mean the principal gates or passes...
THE PASSAGES ARE STOPPED - The ferries are seized, occupied. The historians state that when Cyrus captured the city his troops moved down the bed of the river and occupied all these ferries, finding a...
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...
PASSAGES. fords. STOPPED. seized. MEN. Hebrew, plural of _'enosh._...
_passages_ mg. _fords_, but perhaps we should take it as meaning here _ferries_over the Euphrates. _reeds_ mg. _marshes_, Heb. _pools_. The sense is either that the great reed beds which served as de...
ONE POST SHALL RUN TO MEET ANOTHER— As Babylon was taken by surprise, this occasioned many messengers to run one after another, to acquaint the king with this sudden and unexpected event. Herodotus sa...
III. THE DOOM OF BABYLON Jeremiah 51:27-58 The third section of the Babylon oracle which begins in Jeremiah 51:27 emphasizes the final doom of Babylon. The attack of the enemy is again described in vi...
And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted. PASSAGES ARE STOPPED - the guarded fords of the Euphrates are occupied by the enemy...
1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
THAT THE PASSAGES ARE STOPPED. — These were probably the ferries across the Euphrates, by which one part of the city was in communication with the other. These were at the ends of the streets that ran...
וְ הַ מַּעְבָּרֹ֣ות נִתְפָּ֔שׂוּ וְ אֶת ־הָ אֲגַמִּ֖ים שָׂרְפ֣וּ בָ † אֵ֑שׁ וְ אַנְשֵׁ֥י...
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 Isaiah 4...
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...
_Fords. Thus the enemy entered. --- Marches. Hebrew, "sedges," which grew to the size of trees, and were burnt when the waters of the river and lakes were drained. Herodotus (i. 185, 178.) specifies a...
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....
This verse most clearly proves that Jeremiah was God’s herald, and that his language was under the guidance of the celestial Spirit; for he sets forth the manner in which Babylon was taken, as though...
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...
AND THAT THE PASSAGES ARE STOPPED,.... Or "taken", or "seized" o; where Cyrus placed soldiers to keep them; these were the passages leading from the river Euphrates to the city, the keys of it; the li...
And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted. Ver. 32. _And that the passages are stopped._] Or, Taken, seized, surprised. _as _ Jer...
_The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight: they have remained_, &c. “The year before the siege of Babylon, Cyrus overthrew Belshazzar in battle, whereupon his army retreated within the walls,...
THE WORK OF THE SPOILERS...
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...
This was part of the message which the prophet saith the messenger should carry to the king of Babylon, that was in the other part of the city, that the passages over the river Euphrates, or any other...
Jeremiah 51:32 passages H4569 blocked H8610 (H8738) reeds H98 burned H8313 (H8804) fire H784 men H582 war H4421 terrified H926 (H8738) the passages - Jeremiah 50:38; Isaiah 44:27 the men - Jeremiah 5...
THE BABYLONIAN RESPONSE (JEREMIAH 51:30). As already mentioned Gobryas, the Persian general, took the city of Babylon by stealth, having diverted the water course that led into the city, thus being a...
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 51:31 Several messengers tell Babylon’s KING the same news: the city is surrounded, the water escape routes are cut off, and the places of hiding (MARSHES) have been torched....
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 A...
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 44:27; Jeremiah 50:37; Jeremiah 50:38; Jeremiah 51:30...
The passages — The passages over the river Euphrates, and all the other passages by which the Babylonians might make their escape, were guarded with soldiers. Reeds — On the border of the river Euphra...