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HIS DOMINION - This belonged not to the subordinate rulers, but to the
chief, e. g., to Cyrus....
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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...
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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...
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THE Some codices, with three early printed editions, read "and the"....
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_Prepare_ See on Jeremiah 51:27.
_kings_ Read _king_, with LXX (cp. Jeremiah 51:11). Cyrus is meant.
_governors … deputies_ See on Jeremiah 51:23....
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III. THE DOOM OF BABYLON Jeremiah 51:27-58
The third section of the Babylon oracle which begins in Jeremiah 51:27
emphasizes the final doom of Babylon. The attack of the enemy is again
described in vi...
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Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the
captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his
dominion.
THE KINGS OF THE MEDES - (). The satraps and tribut...
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51:28 Prepare (d-1) Lit. 'hallow.' see ch. 6.4....
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1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
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PREPARE] lit. 'sanctify': so in Jeremiah 6:4; Jeremiah 22:7. HIS
DOMINION] referring to the king of Media, who is to gather to the
attack his tribes with their leaders: cp. Jeremiah 22:11....
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ALL THE LAND OF HIS DOMINION. — The use of the singular pronoun
indicates that the prophet recognises the fact that the kings,
captains, and rulers (see Note on Jeremiah 51:23) are all under one
sover...
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קַדְּשׁ֨וּ עָלֶ֤יהָ גֹויִם֙ אֶת
־מַלְכֵ֣י מָדַ֔י...
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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...
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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...
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_Prepare; "sanctify." (Haydock) --- Media. Cyrus, ver. 11. ---
Captains: generals. (Calmet) --- Rulers. Literally, "magistrates."
(Haydock) --- Hebrew Seganim, a title used once by Isaias, and
frequen...
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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....
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He now repeats what he had said of preparing the nations; but he
mentions them first generally, and then he comes to specify them
particularly. He then bids the _nations _to be sent for, and then he
s...
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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...
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PREPARE AGAINST HER THE NATIONS, WITH THE KINGS OF THE MEDES,.... At
the head of them, Darius and Cyrus. The Syriac version has it in the
singular number, the king of the Modes:
THE CAPTAINS THEREOF,...
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Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the
captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his
dominion.
Ver. 28. _Prepare against her._] Heb., Sanctify. _as _...
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_Set ye up a standard blow the trumpet_ These were common signals for
assembling armies together. _Call together the kingdoms of Ararat,
Minni, and Ashehenaz_ These were countries under the dominion o...
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Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the
satraps, or princes, of the empire, THE CAPTAINS THEREOF, the
governors of the smaller provinces, AND ALL THE RULERS THEREOF, AND
ALL T...
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THE WORK OF THE SPOILERS...
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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...
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Here the prophet declares those particular princes and nations that
should be God's instruments to destroy Babylon, viz. Cyrus and Darius,
the emperors of the Medes, with all the forces under their co...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Chronicles 1:5; Daniel 5:28; Daniel 6:8; Daniel 8:20; Daniel 8:3;...