Jeremiah 50:35 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men. ”

• Jeremiah 50:35 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Omit “is.” A summons comes from Yahweh, Israel’s Goel, to the sword to fall upon all the elements of Babylon’s greatness. The princes were her rulers at home and her generals in war. The wise men w...

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• Jeremiah 50:35 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 50:35 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  A sword. Note the Figure of speech Anaphora, in five successive sentences.

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• Jeremiah 50:35 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  THE Prophet proceeds with the same subject, and employs the same manner of speaking. He denounces war on the Chaldeans as a celestial herald; and then that what he says might have more force an...

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• Jeremiah 50:35 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men . A sword - War and its calamities, or any grievous plague; and so i...

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• Jeremiah 50:35 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men. A sword ... A sword ... A sword. The repetition of "A sword" i...

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• Jeremiah 50:35 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 50:35 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  A sword is upon the Chaldeans. — Better, A sword upon the Chaldeans. Here, and in the verses that follow, the interpolated verb weakens the force of the passage. Jehovah is represented as calling...

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• Jeremiah 50:35 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 50:35 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 50:35 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I must not detain the Reader, by entering upon the many interesting particulars here enumerated of God's judgments upon Babylon. I only briefly observe, that the history of that kingdom hath fully sh...

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• Jeremiah 50:35 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  A sword [is] upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord ,.... Or, "shall be" k or, "O sword, [be thou] on the Chaldeans" l; that is, the sword of the Medes and Persians; those that kill with the sword, as t...

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• Jeremiah 50:35 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  A sword [is] upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise [men]. Ver. 35. A sword is upon the Chaldeans. ] Those sworn swordsmen...

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• Jeremiah 50:35 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  A sword is upon the Chaldeans That is, there shall come a sword upon them. Upon Babylon and her princes Who were slain together with their king, Belshazzar, at a feast, Jeremiah 51:39 ; Daniel...

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• Jeremiah 50:35 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Judgment of Babylon. B. C. 595.       33 Thus saith the L ORD of hosts; The children of...

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• Jeremiah 50:35 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  That is, there shall come a sword, the sword of the Medes, upon Babylon, and all the land of the Chaldeans, and all orders of persons in it.

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• Jeremiah 50:35 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 50:35 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 50:35 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 50:35 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 50:35 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Enemies of Babylon Summoned to the Attack

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• Jeremiah 50:35 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Daniel 5:1 ; Daniel 5:2 ; Daniel 5:30 ; Daniel 5:7 ; Daniel 5:8 ; Ezekiel 14:2 ; Hosea 11:6 ; Isaiah 19:11-13 ; Isaiah 29:14 ; Isaiah 41:25 ; Isaiah 44:25 ; Isaiah 47:13 ; Isaiah 47:14 ;...

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