Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 50:23
The hammer - Babylon, by whose instrumentality Yahweh had crushed the nations, is now cut asunder, i. e., the head of iron or bronze is cut away from the wooden handle, and broken.
The hammer - Babylon, by whose instrumentality Yahweh had crushed the nations, is now cut asunder, i. e., the head of iron or bronze is cut away from the wooden handle, and broken.
Verse Jeremiah 50:23. _THE HAMMER OF THE WHOLE EARTH_] Nebuchadnezzar dashed to pieces the nations against whom he warred. He was the scourge of the Lord....
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...
_the hammer_ For the figure cp. Jeremiah 23:29, and for its application to Babylon Jeremiah 51:20-23. Cp. for the title, as given in later days, Charles _Martel_(hammer), who was grandfather of Charle...
HOW IS THE HAMMER OF THE WHOLE EARTH CUT ASUNDER, &C.— _Divided and broken._ Houbigant. "How is that oppressive empire which smote the nations with a continual stroke, broken and destroyed!" The figur...
C. Babylon's Visitation and Israel's Vindication Jeremiah 50:21-28 TRANSLATION (21) Against the land of Merathaim go up, against the inhabitants of Pekod! Slay and devote her to death (oracle of the...
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! THE HAMMER OF THE WHOLE EARTH - i:e., Babylon, so called because of its ponderous de...
THE FALL OF BABYLON AND THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL The prophecy concerning Babylon is ascribed to Jeremiah in Jeremiah 51:59. This, however, need not mean more than that it represents the tone of Jerem...
HAMMER] Babylon: cp. Jeremiah 51:20. Individuals at other times have borne this title; Judas Maccabæus for his victories over Syria; Charles Martel, grandfather of Charles the Great (Charlemagne), who...
HOW IS THE HAMMER OF THE WHOLE EARTH CUT ASUNDER...! — The image had been used before (Jeremiah 23:29) of the might of right as seen in the words of Jehovah. Here it describes the right of might as se...
אֵ֤יךְ נִגְדַּע֙ וַ יִּשָּׁבֵ֔ר פַּטִּ֖ישׁ כָּל...
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...
The last of the prophecies concerning the nations has to do with Babylon. Throughout the whole of Jeremiah's prophetic utterances, she has been seen as the instrument of God's judgment. Finally, on ac...
How is the (u) hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! (u) Nebuchadnezzar, who had smitten down all the princes and people of the world...
_Hammer. The violent injustice of the Chaldeans is thus entitled._...
I only detain the Reader, to make one remark on this passage, though it furnisheth out many; and the one I beg the Reader particularly to observe is, in my view, a most important one; namely, that Bab...
Here, in the first place, Jeremiah asks in astonishment how it happened that _the hammer of the whole earth was broken, _when it had before broken all nations. God afterwards gives an answer, even bec...
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...
HOW IS THE HAMMER OF THE WHOLE EARTH CUT ASUNDER AND BROKEN!.... The Targum is, "how is the king cut down and broken that moved the whole earth!'' The king of Babylon, or the kingdom of Babylon, whi...
_How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!_ Ver. 23. _How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder!_] Babylon was the maul...
_A sound of battle is in the land_ That is, in the land of Chaldea. _How is the hammer of the whole earth broken!_ That oppressive empire that smote the nations with a continual stroke, as is said Isa...
How is the hammer of the whole earth, as Babylon is called on account of the fact that the Lord used it to strike and destroy many nations, CUT ASUNDER AND BROKEN! itself subject to crushing blows. HO...
THE ENEMIES OF BABYLON SUMMONED TO THE ATTACK...
21-32 The forces are mustered and empowered to destroy Babylon. Let them do what God demands, and they shall bring to pass what he threatens. The pride of men's hearts sets God against them, and ripen...
The latter part of the verse expounds the former; God had made the Babylonians his hammer, to break other nations in pieces, now it was itself broken: the particle HOW may be understood either as expr...
Jeremiah 50:23 hammer H6360 earth H776 apart H1438 (H8738) broken H7665 (H8735) Babylon H894 desolation H8047 nat
YHWH CALLS ON THE NATIONS TO FULFIL HIS WILL AS REGARDS BABYLON (JEREMIAH 50:21). We should note here how personal God's involvement is seen to be in the judgment coming on Babylon. It is in accordanc...
YHWH'S JUDGMENT ON BABYLON AND HIS PROMISES CONCERNING THE RESTORATION OF THE REMNANT OF HIS PEOPLE (JEREMIAH 50:1 TO JEREMIAH 51:64). The series of prophecies against the nations had commenced with t...
CONTENTS: Prophecies against Babylon and Chaldea. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, King of Assyria, Nebuchadrezzar. CONCLUSION: The pride of men's hearts sets God against them and ripens them in due time f...
Jeremiah 50:1. _The word that the Lord spake against Babylon._ Messiah in person spake to the prophet, as is stated in Jeremiah 48:1. But while he spake against Babylon, his lips dropped with grace an...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—This and the following chapter constitute one prophecy against Babylon; and the date of its authorship is given in chap. Jeremiah 51:59: “t...
Jeremiah 50:1. AND 51. ON BABYLON. EXPOSITION We have now reached a point at which some reference is necessary to the centre versies of the so called "higher criticism." An attempt must be made to pu...
Shall we turn now to Jeremiah chapter 50. Chapter 50 begins with the words, The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet (Jeremiah 50:1)....
Isaiah 14:12; Isaiah 14:4; Jeremiah 51:20; Revelation 18:16...