Isaiah 44:27; Jeremiah 50:37; Jeremiah 50:38; Jeremiah 51:30
The passages are stopped - The ferries are seized, occupied. The historians state that when Cyrus captured the city his troops moved down the bed...
Jeremiah 50:1 to Jeremiah 51:58 . Babylon. This long and monotonous prophecy, which is without order or logical development of ideas, is largely...
passages . fords. stopped . seized. men. Hebrew, plural of 'enosh.
This verse most clearly proves that Jeremiah was God’s herald, and that his language was under the guidance of the celestial Spirit; for he set...
And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted. That the passages are stopped - Eithe...
One post shall run to meet another— As Babylon was taken by surprise, this occasioned many messengers to run one after another, to acquaint the kin...
And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted. Passages are stopped - the gu...
1-14. The end of Babylon arrives.
Passages ] with fords, or ferries. Reeds] RM 'marshes,' Heb. 'pools.' The reservoirs and pools around Babylon which prevented inundations shall di...
That the passages are stopped. — These were probably the ferries across the Euphrates, by which one part of the city was in communication with the...
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...
In the second movement of the prophecy which deals with Babylon's doom and Israel's responsibility, Jeremiah first repeated his declarations concerni...
Is not this command to the people of God, to go out of Babylon, the same as gospel precepts, 2 Corinthians 6:17-18 ; Revelation 18:4 .
And that the passages are stopped ,.... Or "taken", or "seized" o; where Cyrus placed soldiers to keep them; these were the passages leading from th...
And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted. Ver. 32. And that the passages are...
The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight: they have remained , &c. “The year before the siege of Babylon, Cyrus overthrew Belshazzar in...
The Judgment of Babylon. B. C. 595. 1...
This was part of the message which the prophet saith the messenger should carry to the king of Babylon, that was in the other part of the city, that...
The Babylonian Response ( Jeremiah 51:30-33 ). As already mentioned Gobryas, the Persian general, took the city of Babylon by stealth, having dive...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—For Chronological Notes, see foregoing chapter. Geographical References. — Jeremiah 51:27 . “ The kingdoms of Ara...
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...
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 Ka...
The Work of the Spoilers
and that the passages are stopped, the places where the river was usually crossed being occupied by the enemy's forces, and the reeds they have burn...
The passages — The passages over the river Euphrates, and all the other passages by which the Babylonians might make their escape, were guarded wit...
32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.