Jeremiah 25:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes, ”

• Jeremiah 25:25 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Zimri - Probably a district between Arabia and Persia. “Elam” is put in Scripture for the whole of Persia.

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• Jeremiah 25:25 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Jeremiah 25:25 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  He now mentions nations more remote, but whose fame was more known among the Jews. We, indeed, know that the Elamites, who dwelt between Media and Persia, had ever been people of great reput...

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• Jeremiah 25:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes, Zimri - Descendants of Abraham, by Keturah, Genesis 25:2 , Genesis 25:6 . Elam - Called Elymais by the Greeks...

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• Jeremiah 25:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes, Zimri - perhaps the Zabra mentioned by Ptolemy, between Mecca and Medina. Zimran also, as Dedan, was one...

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• Jeremiah 25:25 - 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,...

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• Jeremiah 25:25 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Zimri. — The name occurs nowhere else in the Bible or out of it as the name of a country. It is possibly connected with Zimran, the eldest son of Abraham by Keturah ( Genesis 25:2 ), and points, th...

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• Jeremiah 25:25 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Jeremiah 25:25 - 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 worl...

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• Jeremiah 25:25 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 25:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And all the kings of Zimri ,.... Of Arabia Felix, so called from Zimran, a son of Abraham by Keturah, Genesis 25:2 ; the same whom Pliny n calls Zamerenes; and all the kings of Elam ; or Persia;...

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• Jeremiah 25:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes, Ver. 25. And all the kings of Zimri, ] i.e., Of Arabia Felix. Zamarens, Pliny a calleth them. a Lib....

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• Jeremiah 25:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  All the kings of Zimri Those descended from Zimran, one of Abraham's sons, by Keturah; all of whom he sent to settle in the east country, Genesis 25:2 ; Genesis 25:6 . It is probable that these d...

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• Jeremiah 25:25 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Cup of Wrath; General Desolation. B. C. 607.       15 For thus saith the L ORD God of I...

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• Jeremiah 25:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  All the kings of Zimri; those descended from Zimran, Abraham's son by Keturah, Genesis 25:2 (the Zamarens, as some think, mentioned by Pliny). By the Elamites are meant the Persians, descended...

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• Jeremiah 25:25 - 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 25:1-38 ). Th...

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• Jeremiah 25:25 - 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 Je...

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• Jeremiah 25:25 - 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 th...

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• Jeremiah 25:25 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Jeremiah 25:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Judgment on the Kingdoms

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• Jeremiah 25:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Daniel 5:28 ; Daniel 8:2 ; Ezekiel 32:24 ; Genesis 10:22 ; Genesis 14:1 ; Genesis 25:2 ; Isaiah 11:11 ; Isaiah 13:17 ; Isaiah 22:6 ; Jeremiah 49:34-39 ; Jeremiah 51:11 ; Jeremiah 51:28

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• Jeremiah 25:25 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Zimri — Those descended from Zimran, Abraham's son by Keturah, Genesis 25:2 . Elam — The Persians. The Medes — The Medes came from Madai the son of Japhet.

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