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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 51:27. _SET YE UP A STANDARD_] Another summons to the _Medes_ and _Persians_ to attack Babylon. _ARARAT, MINNI_] The Greater and Lesser Armenia. _AND ASHCHENAZ_] A part of Phrygia, n...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Ararat, see the Genesis 8:4 note. Minni, probably the western portion of Armenia, as Ararat was that in the center and to the east. Armenia was at this time subject to Media. Ashchenaz was between the...

  • 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    PREPARE. set apart, or sanctify. MINNI. Frequently mentioned in the inscriptions, the Assyrians having been compelled to quell revolts there. CAPTAIN. muster-master or marshal, like the Assyrian _du...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Set ye up, etc_.] Cp. Jeremiah 51:12. _prepare_ For mg. _sanctify_(and so in Jeremiah 51:28) see on Jeremiah 6:4; Jeremiah 22:7

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain agains...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    51:27 prepare (d-14) Lit. 'hallow.' see ch. 6.4....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ARARAT, MINNI, are districts of Armenia, and so probably was ASHCHENAZ. Minni is frequently mentioned in Assyrian inscriptions, the kings of Assyria having had to quell frequent revolts against their...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    PREPARE THE NATIONS. — The word here and in Jeremiah 51:29 conveys, as in Jeremiah 22:7, the idea of consecration. CALL TOGETHER AGAINST HER THE KINGDOMS OF ARARAT, MINNI, AND ASHCHENAZ. — The first o...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    שְׂאוּ ־נֵ֣ס בָּ † אָ֗רֶץ תִּקְע֨וּ שֹׁופָ֤ר...

  • 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

    Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of (q) Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain aga...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Prepare. Literally, "sanctify." (Haydock) --- Call together all nations to fight against Babylon. (Worthington) --- Many religious ceremonies were used. --- Ararat, where the ark rested, (Genesis viii...

  • 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

    The Prophet here confirms what he had before taught, even that Babylon, however proud on account of its strongholds, would not yet escape God’s hand. Had he used a simple mode of speaking, hardly any...

  • 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

    SET YE UP A STANDARD IN THE LAND,.... Not in Chaldea, but rather in any land; or in all the countries which belonged to Media and Persia; where Cyrus's standard is ordered to be set up, to gather sold...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against...

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

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE WORK OF THE SPOILERS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Set ye up a standard in the land, around which the attacking forces might rally in order to proceed against Babylon, BLOW THE TRUMPET AMONG THE NATIONS, summoning them to be mustered for war, PREPARE...

  • 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

    The former words of this verse are expounded by those that follow; setting up of standards and blowings of trumpets are preparatory to bring armies together. The setting up of standards, and blowing o...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 51:27 up H5375 (H8798) banner H5251 land H776 Blow H8628 (H8798) trumpet H7782 nations...

  • 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...

  • 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 Biblical Illustrator

    _Thus saith the Lord: Set ye up a standard in the land._ THE STANDARD OF THE CROSS, A RALLYING-POINT FOR THE PEOPLE “Set ye up a standard,” plain, obvious to be seen; a standard, high, on a mountain...

  • 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

    1 Chronicles 1:6; Amos 3:6; Genesis 10:3; Genesis 8:4; Isaiah 13:2;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    As caterpillars — The Median horses are compared to their insects, either with respect to their numbers, or in regard of the terror caused by them when they came, being a great plague to the places wh...

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