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Verse Jeremiah 25:14. _MANY NATIONS AND GREAT KINGS_] The _Medes_ and
the _Persians_, under Cyrus; and several princes, his vassals or
allies....
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SHALL SERVE THEMSELVES OF THEM ALSO - i. e., shall impose forced labor
upon the Chaldaeans, and reduce them also to servitude....
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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...
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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 publi...
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OF THEM: i.e. of the Chaldeans....
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Babylon's victory and subsequent ruin....
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FOR MANY NATIONS— _For of them, even of these, shall many nations
and great kings exact service; and I will render to them,_ &c.
Houbigant renders it, _For powerful people, and mighty kings, shall
red...
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B. Judgment on Babylon Jeremiah 25:12-14
TRANSLATION
(12) But it shall come to pass when seventy years are completed I will
visit upon the king of Babylon, even upon that nation, their iniquity,
eve...
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For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also:
and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to
the works of their own hands.
MANY NATIONS AND GREAT KIN...
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25:14 also; (a-12) Or 'shall reduce them to servitude, even them.'...
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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, bet...
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SHALL SERVE THEMSELVES OF THEM. — Better, _shall make them their
servants._ The English “serve themselves” (a Gallicism in common
use in the seventeenth century), which occurs again in Jeremiah 27:7,...
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כִּ֣י עָֽבְדוּ ־בָ֤ם גַּם ־הֵ֨מָּה֙
גֹּויִ֣ם רַבִּ֔ים וּ מְלָכִ֖ים
גְּדֹולִ֑ים וְ שִׁלַּמְתִּ֥י לָהֶ֛ם
כְּ
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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...
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For many nations and great kings shall be (l) served by them also: and
I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the
works of their own hands.
(l) That is of the Babylonians a...
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_Kings. They perfidiously joined the Chaldeans, after making a league
with Sedecias, chap. xxvii. 3. This is condemned, (Calmet) and not
precisely their submitting to Nabuchodonosor, chap. xxviii. 8....
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Here is a gracious promise, (and which was most faithfully fulfilled
in the season) given with a view to support the minds of the faithful,
during their long captivity. I pray the Reader to mark it do...
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_DIVINE RECOMPENSE_
‘According to their deeds.’
Jeremiah 25:14
I. THE REPETITION OF GOD’S ENTREATIES THROUGH JEREMIAH, TO ARREST
THE DOWNWARD PROGRESS OF HIS PEOPLE, IS VERY TOUCHING.—For three-
a...
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The beginning of the verse is obscure. When the verb עבד, _obed,
_is followed by ב, _beth, _they think that it is to be taken
actively, and rendered, to force or drive to bondage. It means
properly, t...
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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...
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FOR MANY NATIONS AND GREAT KINGS SHALL SERVE THEMSELVES OF THEM
ALSO,.... Take their cities, seize upon the kingdoms, spoil them of
their wealth and riches, and bring them into servitude to them: thes...
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For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also:
and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to
the works of their own hands.
Ver. 14. _For many nations._]...
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_When seventy years are accomplished, I will punish the king of
Babylon_ “God often punishes the persons whom he makes instruments
of his vengeance upon others for those very things which they did by...
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THE JUDGMENT ON THE KINGDOMS...
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8-14 The fixing of the time during which the Jewish captivity should
last, would not only confirm the prophecy, but also comfort the people
of God, and encourage faith and prayer. The ruin of Babylon...
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God threateneth the destruction of that monarchy by the Persians,
according to the prophecy of this prophet, and declareth that their
destruction was of themselves, God did but recompense unto them th...
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Jeremiah 25:14 many H7227 nations H1471 great H1419 kings H4428 served
H5647 (H8804) repay H7999 (H8765) deeds H6467 works H4639 hands H3027
many - Jeremiah 27:7, Jeremiah 50:9, Jeremiah 50:41,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 25:14 MANY NATIONS. Persia and its allies.
GREAT KINGS. Cyrus and his successors.
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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...
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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,...
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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 Je...
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Daniel 5:28; Habakkuk 2:8; Isaiah 14:2; Isaiah 45:1; Isaiah 66:6;
Jeremiah 27:7; Jeremiah 50:29; Jeremiah 50:41; Jeremiah 50:9; Je