Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Jeremiah 50:2
A standard] as the speediest way of calling attention to the news. Merodach] another name for Bel (Baal), the tutelary God of Babylon.
A standard] as the speediest way of calling attention to the news. Merodach] another name for Bel (Baal), the tutelary God of Babylon.
Verse Jeremiah 50:2. _DECLARE YE AMONG THE NATIONS_] God's determination relative to this empire. _SET UP A STANDARD_] Show the people where they are to assemble. _SAY, BABYLON IS TAKEN_] It is a th...
CONFOUNDED ... CONFOUNDED - ashamed ... ashamed. MERODACH - This deity, in the inscriptions Marduk, was the tutelary god of Babylon, and Nebuchadnezzar, who called his son Evil-Merodach, appears to h...
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...
PUBLISH... CONCEAL NOT. Not now using symbols as in Jeremiah 25:15. SET UP. lift up. BABYLON IS TAKEN. Compare Revelation 14:8; Revelation 18:6;...
_and set up a standard; publish_ The LXX omit. Cp. for the "standard" Isaiah 13:2 (R.V. "ensign") as the probable origin of the expression here. It was to be a signal either to attract attention or as...
CHAPTER NINETEEN GOD AND BABYLON Jeremiah 50:1 to Jeremiah 51:64 e Eichorn was the first to deny the authenticity of Chapter s 50-51 and he has been followed by most modern critics. Cornill affirms...
Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her image...
50:2 Bel (b-20) Merodach (b-25) A Babylonian idol. dismayed. (c-27) dismayed. (c-37) Or 'broken in pieces.'...
SET UP A STANDARD. — Better, _lift up a signal._ The noun is the same as in Jeremiah 4:6; Jeremiah 4:21. Here, however, its use is not that of furnishing a rallying point for an army, but that of a me...
הַגִּ֨ידוּ בַ † גֹּויִ֤ם וְ הַשְׁמִ֨יעוּ֙ וּֽ...
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...
Declare ye among the nations, and proclaim, and set up a standard; proclaim, [and] conceal not: say, (a) Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, (b) Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded...
_Declare. This is grand. Let all the captives publish these tidings. (Calmet) --- Bel, &c. Bel and Merodach were worshipped for gods by the men of Babylon. (Challoner) --- Merodach might be an ancient...
The Chapter opens with God's denunciation against Babylon: Israel at this time was in captivity in Babylon. But the hour is now hastening when Babylon is to be destroyed, and Israel delivered. Bel and...
He predicts the ruin of Babylon, not in simple words, for nothing seemed then more unreasonable than to announce the things which God at length proved by the effect. As Babylon was then the metropolis...
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...
DECLARE YE AMONG THE NATIONS,.... The taking of Babylon; a piece of news, in which the nations of the world had a concern, as well as the Jews, being brought under the Babylonish yoke, from which they...
Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, [and] conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her imag...
_The word that the Lord spake against Babylon_ This prophecy was delivered and sent to Babylon in the fourth year of Zedekiah's reign, as appears from Jeremiah 51:59. _Declare ye among the nations_ Th...
CHALDEA PUNISHED; ISRAEL REDEEMED...
Declare ye among the nations and publish and set up a standard, to call the attention of all men to the importance and the significance of this announcement; PUBLISH, AND CONCEAL NOT; SAY, BABYLON IS...
SET UP: _ Heb._ lift up...
1-7 The king of Babylon was kind to Jeremiah, yet the prophet must foretell the ruin of that kingdom. If our friends are God's enemies, we dare not speak peace to them. The destruction of Babylon is...
The prophet calls to men to publish it amongst other nations, and to SET UP A STANDARD, to make some signal to gather all people together to hear what he had to say from God against Babylon, which had...
Jeremiah 50:2 Declare H5046 (H8685) nations H1471 Proclaim H8085 (H8685) up H5375 (H8798) standard H5251 Proclaim
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...
THE FALL OF BABYLON WILL LEAD ON TO THE SPIRITUAL RESTORATION OF ISRAEL (JEREMIAH 50:2). What is to come on Babylon is to be a warning to God's people not to trust in Babylon or enjoy its debauchery a...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 50:1 BABYLON IS TAKEN. Persia conquered Babylon in 539 B.C. (Isaiah 13:1;...
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)....
Daniel 1:2; Isaiah 12:4; Isaiah 13:2; Isaiah 21:9; Isaiah 37:19;...
Bel — Bel and Merodach were the two principal idols of the Babylonians....