“ Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people; ”
The arrangement is remarkable. Jeremiah begins with the south, Egypt; next Uz on the southeast, and Philistia on the southwest; next, Edom, Moab, and Ammon on the east, and Tyre, and Sidon, and the...
Jeremiah 25. The Supremacy of Babylon over Judah and the Nations. Jeremiah 25:1-11 . In the year 604 (after the Babylonian victory over Egypt at Carchemish, 605 B.C., cf. Jeremiah 46:2 ), Jere...
It may here be asked, why he connects Pharaoh with the Jews, and assigns the second place to the Egyptians rather than to other nations? The reason is evident, — because the Jews expected deliv...
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people; Pharaoh king of Egypt - This was Pharaoh-necho, who was the principal cause of instigating the neighboring nations to for...
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people; Pharaoh - put next after Jerusalem, because the Jews had relied most on him, and Egypt and Judea stood on a commo...
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,...
Pharaoh king of Egypt... — The list of the nations begins, it will be seen, from the south and proceeds northwards; those that lay on the east and west being named, as it were, literally, according...
CHAPTER XVI JEHOVAH AND THE NATIONS Jeremiah 25:15-38 "Jehovah hath a controversy with the nations."- Jeremiah 25:31 As the son of a king only learns very gradually that his father's author...
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 worl...
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...
Pharaoh king of Egypt ,.... Who is mentioned first after the kings of Judah; not only because the Jews were in alliance with Egypt, and trusted to them; and therefore this is observed, to show the v...
Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people; Ver. 19. Pharaoh king of Egypt. ] Pharaohhophra, Jer 44:30 of whom Herodotus a writeth that he persuaded himself and...
To wit, Jerusalem and the cities thereof The Jews are mentioned first, because Jeremiah, as well as the rest of the prophets, was in the first place sent to them, and they were to have the greatest...
The Cup of Wrath; General Desolation. B. C. 607. 15 For thus saith the L ORD God of I...
The Egyptians being that people whom the Jews most trusted to for help, are named as the first to whom the prophet was sent with the wine-cup of God's fury, to let the Jews know, that if they trusted...
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 25:1-38 ). Th...
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 Je...
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 th...
EXPOSITION This chapter may be illustrated by a comparison of it with Jeremiah 46:1-24 . There Jeremiah exults ever the destruction of a nation (Egypt) which was one of the chief enemies of God...
The Judgment on the Kingdoms
Ezekiel 32:32 ; Jeremiah 43:9-11 ; Jeremiah 46:13-26 ; Jeremiah 46:2 ; Nahum 3:8-10