エレミヤ書 50:21-23 JCB

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 50:21

The land of Merathaim; i.e. of double rebellion. Probably enough an actual geographical name may lie at the root of this singular expression; but we are not able at present to say what it was. The prophet has, at any rate, modified it in such a way as to convey a definite meaning, symbolic of the character of Babylon (comp. on Jeremiah 50:31 ). What was this meaning? According to Gesenius, there is an allusion to the two great blows inflicted on Israel and Judah by Assyria and Babylon... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 50:21-23

The hammer broken. Babylon was to be crushed by Persia—one hammer by another. As universal world powers, the rise and fall of these had immense importance, and they illustrate the duties and responsibilities of power. I. ALL POWER IS A STEWARDSHIP FROM GOD . The vast extent and influence of those empires, and the special mission divinely appointed them, cannot but impress one with a sense of special responsibility. There seems something supernatural in their very origin and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 50:21-28

The punishment of Babylon, corresponding to her crimes. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 50:23

The hammer of the whole earth. So in Isaiah ( Isaiah 14:5 ), "Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked, the rod of the rulers; which smote peoples in passion with an unceasing stroke." In the next chapter a similar title is conferred upon Israel, with the right to retaliate upon Babylon all the evil which Babylon had done to Zion ( Jeremiah 51:20-24 ). Compare the epithet Martel, "The Hammer," given to Charles, Duke of the Franks, on account of his great victory over the Saraoens at... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 50:23

Hammer versus hammer. Babylon was "the hammer of the whole earth" in the days in which and of which Jeremiah wrote. Nineveh had striven to resist, as had Tyre, Syria, and Egypt, but one by one they had been crushed beneath Babylon's ponderous blow. And now Judah and Jerusalem were crushed likewise. But God's Word was that other hammer, against which even the force of the hammer of the whole earth should be put forth in vain. "Is not my Word … as a hammer, saith the Lord, which breaketh... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 50:21

The land of Merathaim - of double rebellion. Like Mitsraim, i. e., the two Egypts, Aram-Naharaim, i. e., Syria of the two rivers, or Mesopotamia, it is a dual. It may have been a real name; or - the dual ending being intensive - it may mean the land of very great rebelliousness.Pekod - Possibly a Babylonian town.Waste - Rather, slay, Jeremiah 50:27. read more

Albert Barnes

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

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. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 50:21

Jeremiah 50:21. Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against Pekod Although these two words מרתים , Merathaim, and פקוד , Pekod, are considered by our translators as proper names; and the latter is so understood by the Chaldee paraphrast: yet all the other ancient versions agree in representing the former word as an appellative, and the latter as a verb. The former, which is the dual number of מרה , marah, may signify either bitterness, or rebellion; and Blaney thinks that... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 50:22-24

Jeremiah 50:22-24. 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 Isaiah 14:6, and brought them under subjection to it. I have laid a snare for thee; and thou art also taken, O Babylon Cyrus took the city by surprise and in an unexpected manner, entering it, by draining the river Euphrates, at a time when the walls were entire, the city full... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 50:1-46

A message concerning Babylon (50:1-46)Finally, Jeremiah sees that the nation that God used to punish Judah will itself be punished. Bel, or Merodach (Marduk), the chief god of Babylon, will be powerless to save Babylon when the attack comes (50:1-3).Since the Judeans will by this time have humbly repented before God, the downfall of Babylon will give them the opportunity to return to the land where their ancestors once lived (4-5). (When Cyrus of Persia conquered Babylon in 539 BC, he promptly... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 50:21

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The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 50:21-28

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 50:23

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 50:23

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 50:21

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

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 50:21

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 50:22-24

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 50:1-46

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