Jeremiah 25
1 Jeremiah, reproving the Jews' disobedience to the prophets,
8 foretells the seventy years' captivity;
12 and after that, the destruction of Babylon.
15 Under the type of a cup of wine he foreshews the destruction of all nations.
34 The howling of the shepherds.
fourth <07243> [A.M. 3398. B.C. 606. in the.]
first <07224> [the first.]
Nebuchadnezzar was associated with his father Nabopollasar two years before the death of the latter; and from this time the Jewish computation of Nebuchadnezzar's reign begins; that is, from the end of the third year of Jehoiakim; and therefore, according to them, the fourth year of Jehoiakim was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar. But the Babylonians date the commencement of his reign two years later, that is, on the death of his father; which computation is followed by Daniel, who wrote in Chaldee.
twenty-three ..... thirteenth <07969> [thirteenth.]
again <07925> [rising.]
servants <05650> [all.]
Urijah the son of Shemaiah, and Huldah the prophetess, lived about this time. Zephaniah also prophesied during part of the time; and it is probable that Habakkuk was contemporary with them.
again <07925> [rising.]
have ... listened ... paid attention <08085> [ye.]
turn <07725> [Turn.]
as <05704> [for.]
angry <03707> [that ye.]
send <07971> [I.]
Nebuchadnezzar <05019> [Nebuchadrezzar.]
land .... inhabitants ..... nations <0776 03427 01471> [against.]
horror <08047> [an astonishment. See on ch.]
put an end .... sounds ........ glad celebration ................ sound <06 06963> [take from. Heb. cause to perish from.]
sounds ... joy ...... glad celebration ................ sound <08342 06963> [voice of mirth.]
sounds ........ glad celebration ................ sound <06963> [the sound.]
Sir J. Chardin remarks, that in the East, every where in the morning may be heard the noise of the mills, which often awakens people; for they generally grind every day just as much as may be necessary for the day's consumption. Where, then, the noise of the mill is not heard in the morning, nor the light of the candle seen in the evening, there must be an utter desolation.
seventy <07657> [seventy.]
This prophecy was delivered in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, and began to be accomplished immediately; and it was exactly seventy years from this time to the proclamation of Cyrus for the return of the Jews.
seventy <07657> [when.]
punish <06485> [that I.]
punish <06485> [punish. Heb. visit upon. See on ch.]
everlasting <05769> [perpetual.]
prophesied <05012> [hath. See on ch.]
many <07227> [many.]
repay <07999> [I.]
Take <03947> [Take.]
nations <01471> [all.]
nations <01471> [and made.]
Jerusalem <03389> [Jerusalem.]
did <05414> [to make.]
already becoming <03117> [as it.]
Pharaoh <06547> [Pharaoh.]
<06153> [the mingled.]
Uz <05780> [Uz.]
Philistines <06430> [Philistines.]
Ashkelon <0831> [Ashkelon.]
[Askelon, Gaza. remnant.]
Edom <0123> [Edom.]
Moab <04124> [Moab.]
<01121> [the.]
Tyre <06865> [Tyrus.]
Sidon <06721> [Zidon.]
coastlands along ... sea <05676 03220 0339> [isles which are beyond the sea. or, region by the sea side.]
Dedan <01719> [Dedan.]
short .... temples <06285 07112> [in the utmost corners. Heb. cut off into corners, or having the corners of the hair polled.]
Arabia <06152> [Arabia.]
<06153> [the mingled. See on ver.]
Zimri <02174> [Zimri.]
[Zimran. Elam.]
Media <04074> [Medes.]
kings ...................................... king <04428> [all the kings.]
kings ...................................... king <04428> [and the.]
drink <08354> [drink.]
Drink <08354> [Drink.]
<06440> [because.]
refuse <03985> [if.]
drink ................ must drink <08354> [Ye.]
bring <02490> [I begin.]
call ... own .................. proclaiming <07121 08034> [which is called by my name. Heb. upon which my name is called.]
avoid ... punished ...... unpunished <05352> [Ye shall.]
call .................... proclaiming <07121> [I will.]
roar ................... roar mightily <07580> [roar.]
holy <06944> [his holy.]
<06030> [give.]
sounds of battle <07588> [A noise.]
The dreadful devastations made by the Chaldeans through all the nations of the East, and afterwards the destruction of Babylon by the Medes and Persians, are here primarily foretold in this awful language; but it also accords very much with the passages in which the ruin of all the anti- christian powers is evidently predicted.
judgment <08199> [plead.]
Disaster <07451> [evil.]
military <01419> [and a.]
killed <02491> [the slain.]
mourned <05594> [they shall not. See on ch.]
manure <01828> [they shall be.]
Wail <03213> [Howl.]
shepherd <07462> [ye shepherds. Ye kings and chiefs of the people. wallow.]
rulers <0117> [ye principal.]
time ...... slaughtered <03117 02873> [the days of your. Heb. your days for.]
fallen <05307> [ye shall.]
fine pottery <03627 02532> [pleasant vessel. Heb. vessel of desire.]
leaders <07462> [the shepherds, etc. Heb. flight shall perish from the shepherds, and escaping from, etc.]
shepherds <0117> [nor.]
[See on ver.]
left <05800> [hath.]
waste <08047> [desolate. Heb. a desolation.]
