Jeremiah 51:50 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. ”

• Jeremiah 51:50 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Afar off - Or, from afar, from Chaldaea, far away from Yahweh’s dwelling in Jerusalem. The verse is a renewed entreaty to the Jews to leave Babylon and journey homewards, as soon as Cyrus grants...

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• Jeremiah 51:50 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Ye that (e) have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. (e) Yet that are now captives in Babylon.

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• Jeremiah 51:50 - 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 51:50 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. (with 'eth). App-4.

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• Jeremiah 51:50 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  The Prophet again bids the faithful quickly to flee from Chaldea; but he says, They who remain from the sword He then intimates that the slaughter would be such, that it would include many o...

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• Jeremiah 51:50 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. Ye that have escaped the sword - The Jews. Let Jerusalem come into your m...

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• Jeremiah 51:50 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. Ye that have escaped the sword - namely, of the Medes. So great wil...

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• Jeremiah 51:50 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1-14. The end of Babylon arrives.

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• Jeremiah 51:50 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Ye that have escaped the sword... — The words call on the people to fulfil the prediction of Jeremiah 50:4-5 . Even in that distant land, “afar off” from the Temple of Jehovah, they are to remembe...

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• Jeremiah 51:50 - 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 51:50 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In the second movement of the prophecy which deals with Babylon's doom and Israel's responsibility, Jeremiah first repeated his declarations concerning the determination of Jehovah to bring about the...

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• Jeremiah 51:50 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  If the Reader will compare what is here said, with what is said of mystic Babylon in the New Testament, he will soon perceive what a striking resemblance there is between things temporal and spiritua...

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• Jeremiah 51:50 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still ,.... The Jews, who had escaped the sword of the Chaldeans when Jerusalem was taken, and were carried captive into Babylon, where they had re...

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• Jeremiah 51:50 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind. Ver. 50. Ye that have escaped the sword, ] sc., Of the Medes and Per...

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• Jeremiah 51:50 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Ye that have escaped the sword Namely, the sword which wasted Babylon. Go away, stand not still This is spoken to the Jews, who, attending to the advice given them, Jeremiah 51:45 , withdrew fro...

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• Jeremiah 51:50 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Judgment of Babylon. B. C. 595.       1 Thus saith the L ORD ; Behold, I will raise up aga...

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• Jeremiah 51:50 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  It is hard to resolve whether the prophet here speaks to the Chaldeans, or the Medes, or the Jews, though most understand it of the Jews, whom God would have leave Babylon as soon as they should have...

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• Jeremiah 51:50 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  In The Light Of Events God Calls On His People To Remember Him Afresh, And To Remember Jerusalem, Revealing The State Of Confusion In Which His People Are ( Jeremiah 51:50-51 ). God now calls on H...

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• Jeremiah 51:50 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—For Chronological Notes, see foregoing chapter. Geographical References. — Jeremiah 51:27 . “ The kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenas .” These nations of West...

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• Jeremiah 51:50 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Jeremiah 51:7 . Babylon is a golden cup in the hands of Jehovah. All the captives and allies are intoxicated with it. All nations bow to her idols, submit to her power, wonder at her riches, appla...

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• Jeremiah 51:50 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Jeremiah 51:1 Against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me . The Hebrew has lēb-kāmai , which is Kasdim , or Chaldea, written in the cypher called...

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• Jeremiah 51:50 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Work of the Spoilers

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• Jeremiah 51:50 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Daniel 9:16-19 ; Daniel 9:2 ; Daniel 9:3 ; Deuteronomy 30:1-4 ; Deuteronomy 4:29-31 ; Ezra 1:3-5 ; Isaiah 48:20 ; Isaiah 51:11 ; Isaiah 52:11 ; Isaiah 52:12 ; Isaiah 52:2 ; Jeremiah 29:12...

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• Jeremiah 51:50 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Ye — Ye Jews, leave Babylon as soon as liberty is proclaimed. Remember — And remember in Judea the great things both of justice and mercy which God hath done.

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