Jeremiah 50:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! ”

Jeremiah 50:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The hammer - Babylon, by whose instrumentality Yahweh had crushed the nations, is now cut asunder, i. e., the head of iron or bronze is cut away from the wooden handle, and broken.
Jeremiah 50:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

How is the (u) hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! (u) Nebuchadnezzar, who had smitten down all the princes and people of the worl...
Jeremiah 50:23 - 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 50:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Here, in the first place, Jeremiah asks in astonishment how it happened that the hammer of the whole earth was broken, when it had before broken all nations. God afterwards gives an answer,...
Jeremiah 50:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! The hammer of the whole earth - Nebuchadnezzar dashed to pieces the nations against...
Jeremiah 50:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder, &c.— Divided and broken. Houbigant. "How is that oppressive empire which smote the nations with a continual stroke, broken and destroyed!" Th...
Jeremiah 50:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! The hammer of the whole earth - i:e., Babylon, so called because of its ponde...
Jeremiah 50:23 - 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 50:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder...! — The image had been used before ( Jeremiah 23:29 ) of the might of right as seen in the words of Jehovah. Here it describes the right of might...
Jeremiah 50:23 - 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 50:23 - 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 50:23 - 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 50:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken !.... The Targum is, "how is the king cut down and broken that moved the whole earth!'' The king of Babylon, or the kingdom of Babylon,...
Jeremiah 50:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! Ver. 23. How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder! ] Babylon was the ma...
Jeremiah 50:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

A sound of battle is in the land That is, in the land of Chaldea. How is the hammer of the whole earth broken! That oppressive empire that smote the nations with a continual stroke, as is said I...
Jeremiah 50:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Judgment of Babylon. B. C. 595. 21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even aga...
Jeremiah 50:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The latter part of the verse expounds the former; God had made the Babylonians his hammer, to break other nations in pieces, now it was itself broken: the particle how may be understood either as e...
Jeremiah 50:23 - 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 50:23 - 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 50:23 - 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 50:23 - 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 50:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Enemies of Babylon Summoned to the Attack
Jeremiah 50:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 14:12-17 ; Isaiah 14:4-6 ; Jeremiah 51:20-24 ; Revelation 18:16

Jeremiah 50:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 50:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Jeremiah 50:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 50:23 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 50:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 50:23 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 50:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 50:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 50:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 50:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 50:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 50:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 50:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 50:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 50:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 50:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 50:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 50:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 50:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 50:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 50:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 50:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 50:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge