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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 25:29

I begin to bring evil...? — The thought is the same as that of 1 Peter 4:17, “If judgment shall begin at the house of God...?” If this were His chastisement of those who were His chosen people, it followed à fortiori that those who were less favoured and had less claims should not escape. For them, as for Judah, the one wise and safe course was to accept their punishment and submit. (Comp. Jeremiah 49:12.)

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See also Jeremiah 25:29 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 25:29. _THE CITY WHICH IS CALLED BY MY NAME_] Jerusalem, which should be _first_ given up to the destruction....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 25 The Seventy Years' Captivity and the Judgment of the Nations _ 1. The retrospect (Jeremiah 25:1) _ 2. The seventy years' captivity announced (Jeremiah 25:8) 3. The punishment of Babylon...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 25. THE SUPREMACY OF BABYLON OVER JUDAH AND THE NATIONS. Jeremiah 25:1. In the year 604 (after the Babylonian victory over Egypt at Carchemish, 605 B.C., _cf._ Jeremiah 46:2), Jeremiah public...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WHICH IS CALLED BY MY NAME. upon which My name is called. UNPUNISHED. held guiltless. Compare 1 Peter 4:17. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 20:7; Exodus 34:7;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _called by my name_ See on Jeremiah 7:10....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The wine-cup of the Lord's fury to be drunk by all the nations. For confusion and dismay, expressed under the figure of intoxication, see below. Overthrow at the hands of the Chaldaeans is to be the...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    There is some reason to consider these _vv_. a later insertion. For (i) the nations (Jeremiah 25:17) had already been made to drink, (ii) Jehovah ("and thou shalt say") suddenly becomes the speaker, i...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. Judgment on Surrounding Nations Jeremiah 25:15-29 TRANSLATION (15) For thus says the LORD, God of Israel, unto me: Take this cup of wine, wrath, from My hand and cause all the nations to whom I am...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the ear...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    25:29 unpunished; (g-27) See ch. 30.11....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH'S FOURTEENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF JEHOIAKIM). THE WINE CUP OF GOD'S FURY We have here the first closely dated prophecy, taking us back from Zedekih's reign to the fourth year of Jehoiakim, betw...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּי֩ הִנֵּ֨ה בָ † עִ֜יר אֲשֶׁ֧ר נִֽקְרָא...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XVI JEHOVAH AND THE NATIONS Jeremiah 25:15 "Jehovah hath a controversy with the nations."- Jeremiah 25:31 As the son of a king only learns very gradually that his father's authority and act...

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

    Still speaking to Zedekiah, Jeremiah reminded him of the word which came in the fourth year of Jehoiakim. It was a message announcing the judgment of God against Judah, Babylon, the nations, the world...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For, lo, (x) I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _City. Jerusalem first fell a prey._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    This scripture can need no other comment, than what is contained in Revelation 14:10. By Jeremiah's taking the cup, and making all these nations drink of it, is meant, making them to hear and know tha...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    A proof is added by comparing the less and the greater; for the Prophet reasons thus, — “If God spares not the city in which he has chosen a temple for himself, and designed his name to be invoked, ho...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 25 closes, so to say, this part of the prophecy with a general summary of God's judgments on the earth, giving it into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. The immediate application to events already a...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR, LO, I BEGIN TO BRING EVIL UPON THE CITY WHICH IS CALLED BY MY NAME,.... Jerusalem, the city of God, the holy city, where his name was called upon, and he was worshipped; on this he would first br...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the eart...

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

    _Drink ye and be drunken_ The _imperative_ is here put for the _future:_ see the like mode of speaking, Isaiah 2:9; Isaiah 6:9; Isaiah 23:16. The _cup_ being metaphorically put for calamity, to be _dr...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE JUDGMENT ON THE KINGDOMS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by My name, revealed in the Word which had been proclaimed by His prophets from the early days, Jerusalem being the center of the true worshi...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    WHICH IS CALLED BY MY NAME: _ Heb._ upon which my Name is called...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    15-29 The evil and the good events of life are often represented in Scripture as cups. Under this figure is represented the desolation then coming upon that part of the world, of which Nebuchadnezzar...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    By the city called by his name, or upon which his name was called, he means Jerusalem, elsewhere called the holy city. The apostle, 1 PETER 4:17, speaketh much to this purpose, _The time is come that...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 25:29 begin H2490 (H8688) calamity H7489 (H8687) city H5892 called H7121 (H8738) name H8034 utterly...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    SUBSECTION 8). JEREMIAH SUMMARISES HIS MINISTRY BEFORE THE PEOPLE AND AFTER DECLARING WHAT IS TO COME ON JUDAH PROCLAIMS THE JUDGMENT OF YHWH THAT IS COMING ON ALL NATIONS (JEREMIAH 25:1). This final...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ALL THE NATIONS WILL BE MADE TO DRINK FROM THE CUP OF YHWH'S WRATH AGAINST SIN AND IDOLATRY (JEREMIAH 25:15). In these remarkable words the destinies of all nations are seen as in YHWH's hands. And th...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    ALL THE INHABITANTS The scope of this great prophecy cannot be limited to the invasion of Nebuchadnezzar. If Jehovah does not spare His own city, should the Gentile nations imagine that there is no j...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Prophecy of seventy years' captivity. Sign of the wine cup of fury. CHARACTERS: Jeremiah, Jehoiakim, Nebuchadnezzar, Pharaoh. CONCLUSION: Men would never receive from God the desolating pu...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 25:1. _In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the first year of Nebuchadrezzar._ Daniel says the third year, Daniel 1:1. The campaign could not be less than a year; the variation arises from the per...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER: “_Fourth year of Jehoiakim_” (Jeremiah 25:1). It is stated the _third_ year in Daniel 1:1; but Hales (“Sacred Chron.”) shows that Jehoiakim...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION This chapter may be illustrated by a comparison of it with Jeremiah 46:1. There Jeremiah exults ever the destruction of a nation (Egypt) which was one of the chief enemies of God's people,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim (Jeremiah 25:1). So now we're going back in time. This was before Zedekiah was king. This was when Jeh...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 8:43; 1 Peter 4:17; Daniel 9:18; Daniel 9:19; Ezekiel 14:17;...

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