"Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations."
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Verse Jeremiah 25:9. _BEHOLD, I WILL SEND_] At this time
Nebuchadrezzar had not invaded the land, according to this Version;
but the Hebrew may be translated, "Behold I am sending, and have taken
all...
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The term families is probably used here to signify the widespread
empire of Nebuchadnezzar.
MY SERVANT - This title, so remarkable in the Old Testament as the
especial epithet, first of Moses, and th...
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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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MY SERVANT. Compare Isaiah 45:1.
AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton._ App-6.
ASTONISHMENT. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:37). Compare
Jeremiah 25:18.
PERPETUAL. age-abiding. Put...
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_saith the Lord … my servant_ LXX omit, doubtless rightly, as a
gloss which needlessly introduces harshness into the construction of
the MT. It is remarkable, however, that neither do they recognise t...
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II. GOD AND THE WORLD RULER Jeremiah 25:1-38
Chapter 25 is one of the most important Chapter s in the entire book.
A great deal can be learned about the message of Jeremiah from this
single chapter. A...
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Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the
LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will
bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants ther...
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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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THE FAMILIES OF THE NORTH. — The phrase reminds us of the vision of
“the seething pot _from the face of the north_” in Jeremiah 1:13,
and includes all the mingled races, Scythians and others, who owne...
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הִנְנִ֣י שֹׁלֵ֡חַ וְ לָקַחְתִּי֩ אֶת
־כָּל ־מִשְׁפְּחֹ֨ות צָפֹ֜ון נְאֻם
־יְהוָ֗ה וְ אֶל ־נְבֽוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֣ר
מֶֽלֶךְ
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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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Behold, I will send and take all the (e) families of the north, saith
the LORD, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my (f) servant, and
will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitan...
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_My servant. So this wicked king is here called; because God made him
his instrument in punishing the sins of his people. (Challoner)
(Worthington) --- He thought himself more than man, but he was onl...
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I pray the Reader to observe, how the King of Babylon is called the
Lord's servant. Yes! for the Lord will serve himself of his enemies,
when the purposes of his sacred will, render it necessary. In t...
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Here follows a denunciation of punishment; the Prophet says that God
would no longer deal in words, for their iniquity had ripened,
according to what is in Genesis,
“My Spirit shall not contend (or s...
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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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BEHOLD, I WILL SEND AND TAKE ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE NORTH,
SAITH THE LORD,.... The Targum is, the kingdoms of the north, the same
with those in Jeremiah 1:15; even all those kingdoms which were
subj...
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Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the
LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will
bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants there...
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_Therefore, because ye have not heard_ That is, because ye have not
hearkened to, nor obeyed _my words, Behold, I will send and take all
the families of the north_, &c. All those kings whose territori...
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THE JUDGMENT ON JUDAH...
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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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I will put it into the heart of all those kings whose territories lie
northward of Judea, and particularly into the heart of NEBUCHADREZZAR
THE KING OF BABYLON, who in this work shall be MY SERVANT; t...
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Jeremiah 25:9 send H7971 (H8802) take H3947 (H8804) families H4940
north H6828 says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 Nebuchadnezzar H5019 king
H4428 Babylon H894 servant H5650 bring H935 (H8689) land H776
inh...
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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 25:8 TRIBES OF THE NORTH. See Jeremiah
1:13; Jeremiah 3:12, Jeremiah 3:18; Jeremiah 4:6; Jeremiah 6:1; etc.
NEBUCHADNEZZAR... MY SERVANT. See Jeremiah 27:6;...
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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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1 Kings 9:7; 1 Kings 9:8; Deuteronomy 28:45; Ezekiel 26:7; Ezekiel
29:18; Ezekiel 29:19; Ezekiel 30:10; Ezekiel 30:11; Habakkuk 1:6;...
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Nebuchadnezzar — In this work shall be my servant; though you will
not be my servants in obeying my commands....