John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:18
To wit , Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah ,.... Which are mentioned first, because God's judgments began with them, as they usually do with the house of God, 1 Peter 4:17 ; and even now began; for this very year, in which this prophecy was delivered, Nebuchadnezzar came up and besieged Jerusalem, and carried away some captives, Daniel 1:1 ; this was the beginning of what afterwards were more fully executed: and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof : the Kings Jehoiakim,... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 25:15-29
Under the similitude of a cup going round, which all the company must drink of, is here represented the universal desolation that was now coming upon that part of the world which Nebuchadrezzar, who just now began to reign and act, was to be the instrument of, and which should at length recoil upon his own country. The cup in the vision is to be a sword in the accomplishment of it: so it is explained, Jer. 25:16. It is the sword that I will send among them, the sword of war, that should be... read more