Jeremiah 50:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Go up against the land of Merathaim,f even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee. ”

Jeremiah 50:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The land of Merathaim - of double rebellion. Like Mitsraim, i. e., the two Egypts, Aram-Naharaim, i. e., Syria of the two rivers, or Mesopotamia, it is a dual. It may have been a real name; or -...
Jeremiah 50:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Go up against the land of (t) Merathaim, [even] against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded t...
Jeremiah 50:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 50:1 to Jeremiah 51:58 . Babylon. This long and monotonous prophecy, which is without order or logical development of ideas, is largely a compilation from the prophetic writings of Jere...
Jeremiah 50:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Merathaim . double rebellion. So called, here, because the empire was founded in. double rebellion. Pekod . Visitation: i.e. in judgment. destroy . devote to extermination. Hebrew. karam. The...
Jeremiah 50:21 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet here undertakes the office of a herald, and animates the Persians and the Medes to make war with Babylon. This prophecy indeed never came to these nations, but we have stated why th...
Jeremiah 50:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee....
Jeremiah 50:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 50:21 . Go up, &c. The two places here mentioned, though unknown, are supposed to have been situate in the Babylonish dominions. The meaning of the words is, the land of the rebels—a...
Jeremiah 50:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded the...
Jeremiah 50:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Fall of Babylon and the Restoration of Israel The prophecy concerning Babylon is ascribed to Jeremiah in Jeremiah 51:59 . This, however, need not mean more than that it represents the tone of...
Jeremiah 50:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Go up against the land of Merathaim. — No such name is found in Babylonian inscriptions or is mentioned by historians. The most probable explanation of its use is that the prophet coined it as a de...
Jeremiah 50:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XXV BABYLON Jeremiah 50:1-46 , Jeremiah 51:1-64 "Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces."- Jeremiah 50:2 THESE Chapter s present phenomena analogous to t...
Jeremiah 50:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The last of the prophecies concerning the nations has to do with Babylon. Throughout the whole of Jeremiah's prophetic utterances, she has been seen as the instrument of God's judgment. Finally, on a...
Jeremiah 50:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I only detain the Reader, to make one remark on this passage, though it furnisheth out many; and the one I beg the Reader particularly to observe is, in my view, a most important one; namely, that Ba...
Jeremiah 50:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Go up against the land of Merathaim ,.... Thought to be the country of the Mardi, which lay part of it in Assyria, and part of it in Armenia; expressed in the dual number, because one part of it lay...
Jeremiah 50:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Go up against the land of Merathaim, [even] against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee....
Jeremiah 50:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against Pekod Although these two words מרתים, Merathaim , and פקוד, Pekod , are considered by our translators as proper names; and the latter is so unders...
Jeremiah 50:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Judgment of Babylon. B. C. 595. 21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even aga...
Jeremiah 50:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

There is some disputes amongst interpreters, whether the words here, Merathaim and Pekod, be to be taken as common nouns, the one signifying rebels or rulers, the other visitation, because the Ch...
Jeremiah 50:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

YHWH's Judgment On Babylon And His Promises Concerning The Restoration Of The Remnant Of His People ( Jeremiah 50:1 to Jeremiah 51:64 ). The series of prophecies against the nations had commence...
Jeremiah 50:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. Chronology of the Chapter .—This and the following chapter constitute one prophecy against Babylon; and the date of its authorship is given in chap. Jeremiah 51:59...
Jeremiah 50:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 50:1 . The word that the Lord spake against Babylon. Messiah in person spake to the prophet, as is stated in Jeremiah 48:1 . But while he spake against Babylon, his lips dropped with gra...
Jeremiah 50:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 50:1-24 . AND 51. ON BABYLON . EXPOSITION We have now reached a point at which some reference is necessary to the centre versies of the so called "higher criticism." An attempt m...
Jeremiah 50:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Go up against the land of Merathaim, "of double defiance," a name applied to Babylon on account of its rebellion against Jehovah and His commandments, even against it and against the inhabitants of...
Jeremiah 50:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 15:11-24 ; 1 Samuel 15:3 ; 2 Chronicles 36:23 ; 2 Kings 18:25 ; 2 Samuel 16:11 ; Ezekiel 23:23 ; Isaiah 10:6 ; Isaiah 44:28 ; Isaiah 48:14 ; Jeremiah 34:22 ; Jeremiah 48:10 ; Jer...
Jeremiah 50:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Merathaim — The names of some places which Cyrus took in his way to Babylon.

Jeremiah 50:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 50:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Jeremiah 50:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 50:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Jeremiah 50:21 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 50:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 50:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 50:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 50:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 50:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 50:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 50:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 50:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 50:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 50:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 50:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 50:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 50:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 50:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 50:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 50:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 50:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 50:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 50:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 50:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes