Jeremiah 50:2
Bel — Bel and Merodach were the two principal idols of the Babylonians.... [ Continue Reading ]
Bel — Bel and Merodach were the two principal idols of the Babylonians.... [ Continue Reading ]
The north — From Media which lay northward to Babylon and Assyria.... [ Continue Reading ]
In those days — In the days wherein God shall begin to execute judgment upon Babylon, (which was in the time of Cyrus) the children of Judah shall come out of captivity, and some of the children of Israel hearing that their brethren were gone out of Babylon, shall go up also from the several places... [ Continue Reading ]
Their shepherds — Their civil and ecclesiastical governors have been a cause of it. The former by their wicked commands and example; the latter by example as well as doctrine. Turned them — To offer sacrifices unto idols. From mountain — From one idolatry to another. Forgotten — They have forgotten... [ Continue Reading ]
Habitation — Some think this is a name here given to God, who indeed is the habitation of justice, but whether the Chaldeans would call him so, may be a question. Others therefore think the preposition in is understood, making this the aggravation of the Jews sins, that they were committed in a land... [ Continue Reading ]
Remove — God commands his people to remove out of Babylon, and to go forth chearfully like the he — goats of a flock leading the way.... [ Continue Reading ]
Satisfied — Satisfied with spoil and plunder.... [ Continue Reading ]
Because — They rejoiced at the ruin of the Jews. Fat — The cause for which Babylon is threatened, was doubtless their luxury of all sorts commonly attending great wealth.... [ Continue Reading ]
Mother — Your country, shall be ashamed of you, who are not able to defend her.... [ Continue Reading ]
Given her hand — Acknowledging themselves overcome, and yielding. As she hath done — Unmerciful men find no mercy.... [ Continue Reading ]
Every one — Either such strangers as for commerce had their abodes in Babylon, or such assistance as the Babylonians had gotten against their enemies.... [ Continue Reading ]
Israel — The whole twelve tribes. Lions — Enemies cruel as lions had carried them into captivity.... [ Continue Reading ]
Not found — God will no longer punish the sins of the Jews, they should be sought for as to punishment and not found. Reserve — Whom I save from the captivity of Babylon.... [ Continue Reading ]
Merathaim — The names of some places which Cyrus took in his way to Babylon.... [ Continue Reading ]
The land — Of Chaldea.... [ Continue Reading ]
Open her store — houses — The granaries, or treasures of the Babylonians.... [ Continue Reading ]
Bullocks — The great and rich men of Babylon.... [ Continue Reading ]
The vengeance — The revenge which God had taken for his holy temple, which the Chaldeans had destroyed.... [ Continue Reading ]
Together — Together in this place signifies no more than that they were both oppressed, or alike oppressed.... [ Continue Reading ]
Plead — He will actually and readily effect it.... [ Continue Reading ]
Dote — Their soothsayers and wizards shall dote, not foreseeing what will be. Dismayed — Their hearts shall fail them when this day comes.... [ Continue Reading ]
Horses — Through they be full of chariots and horses, the enemy shall destroy them. Mingled people — People that were not native Chaldeans, but under their dominion.... [ Continue Reading ]
Dried — This phrase has a plain reference to Cyrus's stratagem used in the surprize of Babylon; one part of it was fortified by the great river Euphrates, which Cyrus diverted by cutting several channels, 'till he had drained it so low, that it became passable for his army; others think that a want... [ Continue Reading ]
No man — Cyrus only made them tributaries, and took away their government. But Seleucus Nicanor, a Grecian prince, utterly destroyed Babylon, so that in the time of Adrian the Roman emperor, there was nothing left standing of that great city.... [ Continue Reading ]