Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 25:9
(9) The families of the north.—The phrase reminds us of the vision of “the seething pot from the face of the north” in Jeremiah 1:13, and includes all the mingled races, Scythians and others, who owned the sway of the Chaldæan king.Nebuchadrezzar . . . my servant.—The use of the word which is applied by psalmists and prophets to David (Psalms 78:70; 2 Samuel 7:8) and to the future Christ (Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 52:13) is every way remarkable. It has its parallel, and, in fact, its explanation, in... read more
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 25:1-38
Jeremiah’s Fourteenth Prophecy (Reign of Jehoiakim). The Wine Cup of God’s FuryWe have here the first closely dated prophecy, taking us back from Zedekih’s reign to the fourth year of Jehoiakim, between the news of the victory of Nebuchadnezzar over Pharaoh-Necho and the Egyptians at Carchemish (605 b.c.) and the arrival of the Chaldean army under the walls of Jerusalem. The prophet advises submission to Babylon as God’s agent, but promises its overthrow at the end. of the seventy years’... read more