Jeremiah 50:40 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein. ”

• Jeremiah 50:40 - 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 50:40 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  overthrew, &c. Reference to Pentateuch ( Genesis 19:25 ). App-92. Compare Jeremiah 49:18 . man. Hebrew. Ish . App-14.

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• Jeremiah 50:40 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  This verse confirms and explains the previous verse. But that the design of the Prophet may be more evident, we must remember what Jude in his epistle ( Jude 1:7 ) says, that the destruction of...

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• Jeremiah 50:40 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein. As God overthrew Sodom - As the very...

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• Jeremiah 50:40 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein. As God overthrew Sodom and Gomor...

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• Jeremiah 50:40 - 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 50:40 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  As God overthrew Sodom... — The whole verse is reproduced from Jeremiah 49:18 . We enter here, indeed, upon a mosaic of quotations, or at least recollections of other prophecies. Thus Jeremiah 50...

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• Jeremiah 50:40 - 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 50:40 - 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 50:40 - 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 50:40 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and the neighbour [cities] thereof, saith the Lord ,.... Admah and Zeboim: [so] shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein ; the same...

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• Jeremiah 50:40 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour [cities] thereof, saith the LORD; [so] shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein. Ver. 40. As God overthrew Sodom....

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• Jeremiah 50:40 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  A drought is upon all her waters Our translators, after the example of the Vulgate and others, have rendered חרב, a drought , here, whereas they have translated it a sword in the preceding verse...

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• Jeremiah 50:40 - 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 50:40 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The substance of both these verses is, that Babylon should be totally ruined, as Sodom and Gomorrah, so as there should be no habitations for men, but wild beasts only of all sorts should inhabit and...

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• Jeremiah 50:40 - 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 50:40 - 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 50:40 - 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 50:40 - 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 50:40 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Enemies of Babylon Summoned to the Attack

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• Jeremiah 50:40 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Peter 2:6 ; Amos 4:11 ; Deuteronomy 29:23 ; Genesis 19:24 ; Genesis 19:25 ; Hosea 11:8 ; Hosea 11:9 ; Isaiah 1:9 ; Isaiah 13:19 ; Isaiah 13:20 ; Jeremiah 49:18 ; Jeremiah 51:26 ; Jude...

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• Jeremiah 50:40 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  No man — Cyrus only made them tributaries, and took away their government. But Seleucus Nicanor, a Grecian prince, utterly destroyed Babylon, so that in the time of Adrian the Roman emperor, there...

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