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Jeremiah 51:25

O destroying mountain For the expression cp. 2 Kings 23:13 R.V. mg. The figure is not appropriate in a literal sense, as Babylon is situated in a plain. The sense must be that she towers in supremacy over other countries. Perhaps Ezekiel 35:3 ff. may have suggested this passage.

a burnt mountain barren and desolate.

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See also Jeremiah 51:25 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 51:25. _O DESTROYING MOUNTAIN_] An epithet which he applies to the Babylonish government; it is like a _burning_ mountain, which, by vomiting continual streams of _burning lava_, inunda...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    O DESTROYING MOUNTAIN - A volcano which by its flames and hot lava-streams “destroys the whole land.” A BURNT MOUNTAIN - A burned-out mountain, of which the crater alone remains. Such was Babylon. Its...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BEHOLD, I AM AGAINST THEE, O DESTROYING MOUNTAIN— The Vulgate renders it more properly, _O corrupting mountain, which corruptest the whole earth._ Babylon, though seated in a low watery plain, is here...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    D. Divine Destruction Jeremiah 51:11-26 TRANSLATION (11) Polish the arrows! Fill the shields! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the king of the Medes; for His purpose is against Babylon to destroy i...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a b...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    51:25 destruction, (b-8) Or 'mount of corruption.' see 2 Kings 23:13 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    O DESTROYING MOUNTAIN] The same phrase is used of the Mount of Olives (AV 'mount of corruption') in 2 Kings 23:13, as the scene of pernicious idolatry. Babylon here receives the title, as at once hurt...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    O DESTROYING MOUNTAIN. — Singularly enough the phrase is the same as that which is applied in 2 Kings 23:13 to the Mount of Olives, and is there rendered by the Authorised version as “the Mount of Cor...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הִנְנִ֨י אֵלֶ֜יךָ הַ֤ר הַ מַּשְׁחִית֙ נְאֻם ־

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Behold, I [am] against thee, O destroying (o) mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the (p) rocks, and will make t...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Mountain. So Babylon is styled in derision. See chap. xxi. 13., and Isaias i. 10., and xx. 6., and xxii. 1. The city stood on a plain. Some think that its palace and walls are designated. --- Burnt;...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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....

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    There is no doubt but that the Prophet speaks of Babylon. But it may seem strange to call it a mountain, when that city was situated in a plain, as it is well known; nay, it has no mountains near it....

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BEHOLD, I [AM] AGAINST THEE, O DESTROYING MOUNTAIN, SAITH THE LORD, WHICH DESTROYEST ALL THE EARTH,.... Babylon is called a mountain, though situated in a plain, because of its high walls, lofty tower...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Behold, I [am] against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain_ Babylon was situate in a plain, but is called a mountain here, by reason of its superiority and eminence above all other places; and perhaps also on...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE THREAT OF JEHOVAH IN ITS VARIOUS FORMS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the Lord, Babylon called thus on account of the physical and moral destruction which it brought upon the nations by a false use of its great pow...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Babylon is not here called _a mountain_ because it was situated upon any hills or mountains, for it appears from GENESIS 11:2 that it was situated in a plain, and we read, JEREMIAH 51:13, that it dwel...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 51:25 destroying H4889 mountain H2022 destroys H7843 (H8688) earth H776 says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 o

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    PREPARATION FOR THE COMING TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON (JEREMIAH 51:25). With the mention of what is to happen to Babylon in Jeremiah 51:24, YHWH's attention now turns on Babylon, describing it as a...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    O DESTROYING MOUNTAIN See note 2 on Babylon, (Isaiah 13:1); (Zechariah 4:7); (_ See Scofield) - (Isaiah 13:1). _...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 51:25 As in Daniel 2:35, Daniel 2:44, Babylon is compared to a great mo

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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 As...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Peter 3:10; Daniel 4:30; Genesis 11:4; Isaiah 13:2; Jeremiah 25:18;

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Mountain — Babylon was very high for its power, and greatness, and had very high walls and towers, that it looked at a distance like an high rocky mountain. They had destroyed many people. Burnt — Thy...

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