JEREMIAH CHAPTER 25 Their disobedience to the prophets reproved,
JEREMIAH 25:1. The seventy years of captivity foretold, JEREMIAH 25:8;
and after that the destruction of Babylon, JEREMIAH 25:12. By a cup of
wine is fore shown the destruction of all nations, JEREMIAH 25:15. The
howling of the shepher... [ Continue Reading ]
That is, the word concerned them all, and he spake it to so many of
them as he met with in any public assembly at Jerusalem or elsewhere.... [ Continue Reading ]
We read, JEREMIAH 1:2, that Jeremiah began to prophesy in the
thirteenth year of Josiah. Josiah reigned thirty-one years, 2 KINGS
22:1; so that taking in the thirteenth year, Jeremiah prophesied
nineteen years during the life of Josiah, to which adding the four of
Jehoiakim's reign, it maketh twenty... [ Continue Reading ]
Nor am I the only prophet whom the Lord hath sent you, and whom you
have neglected and despised; God hath sent you many more, and you have
despised as many as he hath sent, though the Lord hath made it his
business to send you one after another from time to time. This
contempt of the Lord's messenge... [ Continue Reading ]
The substance both of their and my sermons hath been to persuade you
to leave off those sinful courses wherein you have lived, and which
you might have amended by virtue of that common grace which I did not
deny you. We have not differed in our doctrine, to the practice of
which you have also been e... [ Continue Reading ]
Gods; idols, which indeed are no gods, but so called by idolaters. TO
SERVE THEM, AND TO WORSHIP THEM; to pay any divine homage unto them.
AND PROVOKE ME NOT TO ANGER by idols, which are the work of men's
hands (no uncreated beings). Or more generally, any works which are
contrary to the law of God.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye heard me and other the Lord's prophets thus speaking to you, but
you did not obey and hearken. As if you had done it on purpose to
incense me against you, who am of myself slow to wrath, and must be
provoked to execute vindictive justice by men's own wicked works;
which do not otherwise affect or... [ Continue Reading ]
That is, because you have not hearkened to and obeyed my words; for it
is manifest they had heard Jeremiah and the other prophets.... [ Continue Reading ]
I will put it into the heart of all those kings whose territories lie
northward of Judea, and particularly into the heart of NEBUCHADREZZAR
THE KING OF BABYLON, who in this work shall be MY SERVANT; though you
will not be my servants in obeying my commands, yet he shall serve me,
JEREMIAH 27:6, JERE... [ Continue Reading ]
I will take away all your mirth and jollity, whether used at weddings,
or at any of your merry meetings; I will leave you nothing to rejoice
in; your very wedding times shall be times of mourning and
lamentation. Nay, I will not only deprive you of your mirth, but of
those things that are necessary... [ Continue Reading ]
This prophecy is a famous prophecy in regard of its fixing the
particular space of time in which the Jews abode in the captivity of
Babylon, viz. SEVENTY YEARS. When they determined we are plainly
enough told, EZRA 1:1, _in the first year of Cyrus the king of
Persia_, but when they commenced is more... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN SEVENTY YEARS ARE ACCOMPLISHED; seventy years accounted from the
time that the Jews were carried away in the time of Jeconiah or
Jehoiachin, 2 KINGS 24:15,16. This was fulfilled by Darius the king of
Persia, DANIEL 4:31. Of these seventy Nebuchadnezzar reigned
thirty-six, 2 KINGS 25:27, Evil-me... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT LAND; the land of the Babylonians and Chaldeans.... [ Continue Reading ]
God threateneth the destruction of that monarchy by the Persians,
according to the prophecy of this prophet, and declareth that their
destruction was of themselves, God did but recompense unto them their
own deeds, and the works of their hands; which is not to be restrained
to their excesses in exec... [ Continue Reading ]
God's judgments are often in Scripture expressed under the notion of a
cup of hot and intoxicating drink, and their suffering is set out
under the notion of drinking such a cup, as PSALMS 75:8 JOB 21:20
ISAIAH 51:17 PSALMS 11:6, PSALMS 60:3 LAMENTATIONS 4:21 EZEKIEL
23:32,34. God made Jeremiah to se... [ Continue Reading ]
Whether they will or no, they shall drink it, and be disturbed, and be
mad, and rage like men overcome with wine, because of those dreadful
judgments which I shall send amongst them.... [ Continue Reading ]
That is, in the vision; for it cannot be thought that the Lord made
the prophet to travel up and down to all the nations afterward named
with a cup of wine in his hand.... [ Continue Reading ]
Judgment usually beginneth at the house of God, 1 PETER 4:17. God hath
more known them and done them more good than other people, therefore
their sins are higher provocations, and they are less excusable. By
the kings here mentioned are to be understood Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin,
and Zedekiah; these pri... [ Continue Reading ]
The Egyptians being that people whom the Jews most trusted to for
help, are named as the first to whom the prophet was sent with the
wine-cup of God's fury, to let the Jews know, that if they trusted to
them, their confidence was vain; for they should themselves be
destroyed, which was fulfilled wit... [ Continue Reading ]
It is of no great moment to determine whether God by THE MINGLED
PEOPLE, here mentioned, intended the various nations afterwards
particularly expressed by their names, or some people that were not
native Egyptians, but lived mingled with them, or some other people of
several nations who lived near J... [ Continue Reading ]
The Edomites were the posterity of Esau the son of Isaac, to whom God
had given a land which they inherited, and he would not suffer the
Israelites to make their way through them by force, when they denied
them a passage through their country; now he threatens their ruin, as
also JEREMIAH 49:7; and... [ Continue Reading ]
TYRUS was a strong city upon the borders of the tribe of Asher, JOSHUA
19:29 2 SAMUEL 24:7, a very rich city, and a kingdom, with the king of
which (who was Hiram) Solomon in his time traded much, 2 CHRONICLES
2:3. Isaiah prophesied its ruin, JEREMIAH 23:1; so did Ezekiel,
EZEKIEL 27:28,29: it was d... [ Continue Reading ]
We read of a _Dedan_ the issue of Ham, GENESIS 10:7. The other the
posterity of Abraham by Jokshan, GENESIS 25:3. It seemeth to be a city
of Idumea, JEREMIAH 49:8. _Tema_ descended from Ishmael, GENESIS
25:15; his posterity inhabited in Arabia, ISAIAH 21:14, where they are
joined with those of Dedan... [ Continue Reading ]
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
desert, and had made to themselves several kings or chief rulers.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THE KINGS OF ZIMRI; those descended from Zimran, Abraham's son by
Keturah, GENESIS 25:2 (the Zamarens, as some think, mentioned by
Pliny). By the Elamites are meant the Persians, descended from Shem,
GENESIS 10:22. Elam is also mentioned ISAIAH 22:6. See also JEREMIAH
49:34. The Medes came from... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THE KINGS OF THE NORTH, FAR AND NEAR; all under the government of
the Chaldeans, or (as others) all those princes that have dominions
between the north and east. ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD, which are
upon the face of the earth; that is, in those parts of the world which
were at that time know... [ Continue Reading ]
No text from Poole on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
The meaning of these two verses is no more than this; God let Jeremiah
in a vision know that it was his will that he should prophesy a
certain and unavoidable ruin to all these nations, which was brought
upon all the rest by the king of Babylon, whom God made his instrument
to execute his vengeance... [ Continue Reading ]
By the city called by his name, or upon which his name was called, he
means Jerusalem, elsewhere called the holy city. The apostle, 1 PETER
4:17, speaketh much to this purpose, _The time is come that judgment
must begin at the house of God; and if it first begin at us, what
shall the end be of them... [ Continue Reading ]
Reveal my will unto them presently, to revenge myself upon them, in
words to this sense or purpose; tell them that I, who hitherto have
been toward them as a lamb, will now be to them as a lion; so JOEL
3:16 AMOS 1:2, AMOS 3:8; and, as a lion, will roar from heaven; for
though the temple be sometime... [ Continue Reading ]
There shall be such confusion, and noises as shall ring over all the
world; for God's quarrel is not against the Jews only, but other
nations also. Nor will he in any thing he doth act unjustly; if they
will join issue with him, he will plead with them, and make it appear
to all that he acteth right... [ Continue Reading ]
It is much the same thing which was said before, only repeated for the
greater terror in a variety of expressions. He tells them that the
judgment should be like a contagion, going from one nation to another,
or like a fire catching hold of another house before the first is
burned down, like a WHIRL... [ Continue Reading ]
That those who should be slain by commission from the Lord in this
time of his judgments should be in all places, and so numerous, that
there should be none left to lament for or to bury the dead; but the
dead bodies should lie and rot upon the surface of the earth, and be
as muck to it. See the lik... [ Continue Reading ]
SHEPHERDS, and the PRINCIPAL OF THE FLOCK, are in this place of the
same significancy, by both he means the civil rulers; so the word is
used JEREMIAH 22:22, JEREMIAH 23:1. These he calls aforehand to bewail
their fate; for the days were now come when they should be slain and
scattered. And he tells... [ Continue Reading ]
In ordinary dispensations of judgment, there is some way left to
escape, and if there be any way of escape, great men are likeliest to
find it; but he telleth them that the greatest men should find no way
to flee from or escape this terrible dispensation of God.... [ Continue Reading ]
That is, there shall be heard a great outcry of the princes and
rulers, when they shall see how the Lord hath spoiled the cities in
which, and their people upon which, they have lived, and amongst whom
they were wont to feed securely.... [ Continue Reading ]
That is, the places where these great men were wont to live
splendidly, and dwell peaceably and securely, shall be as surely
destroyed, through the Lord's anger, as if it were already done.... [ Continue Reading ]
God had before compared himself to a lion, JEREMIAH 25:30; here he
declares himself to be about to move like a lion, who when he goeth
out to seek his prey, leaveth his covert: see JEREMIAH 50:44. The
effects of this rising up of God out of his covert is the desolation
of the land through the fierce... [ Continue Reading ]