Jeremiah 25

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 25

The prophecy of this chapter bears date some time before those prophecies in the chapters next foregoing, for they are not placed in the exact order of time in which they were delivered. This is dated in the first year of Nebuchadrezzar, that remarkable year when the sword of the Lord began to be drawn and furbished. Here is, I. A review of the prophecies that had been delivered to Judah and Jerusalem for many years past, by Jeremiah himself and other prophets, with the little regard given to... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 25:1-7

We have here a message from God concerning all the people of Judah (Jer. 25:1), which Jeremiah delivered, in his name, unto all the people of Judah, Jer. 25:2. Note, That which is of universal concern ought to be of universal cognizance. It is fit that the word which concerns all the people, as the word of God does, the word of the gospel particularly, should be divulged to all in general, and, as far as may be, addressed to each in particular. Jeremiah had been sent to the house of the king... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 25:8-14

Here is the sentence grounded upon the foregoing charge: ?Because you have not heard my words, I must take another course with you,? Jer. 25:8. Note, When men will not regard the judgments of God's mouth they may expect to feel the judgments of his hands, to hear the rod, since they would not hear the word; for the sinner must either be parted from his sin or perish in it. Wrath comes without remedy against those only that sin without repentance. It is not so much men's turning aside that... read more

Matthew Henry

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

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 25:30-38

We have, in these verses, a further description of those terrible desolations which the king of Babylon with his armies should make in all the countries and nations round about Jerusalem. In Jerusalem God had erected his temple; there were his oracles and ordinances, which the neighbouring nations should have attended to and might have received benefit by; thither they should have applied for the knowledge of God and their duty, and then they might have had reason to bless God for their... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 25 This chapter contains a prophecy of the destruction of Judea by the king of Babylon; and also of Babylon itself, after the Jews' captivity of seventy years; and likewise of all the nations round about. The date of this prophecy is in Jeremiah 25:1 ; when the prophet puts the Jews in mind of the prophecies that had been delivered unto them by himself and others, for some years past, without effect, Jeremiah 25:2 ; wherefore they are threatened with the king... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:1

The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah ,.... Not only in the city of Jerusalem, but in the whole land of Judea. This prophecy concerns them all; their repentance and reformation, to which they are exhorted; or their invasion, desolation, and captivity, with which they are threatened. Before the prophet was sent to the king of Judah only, Jeremiah 22:1 ; now to all the people: in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah ; in the latter part... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:2

The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah ,.... Perhaps at one of the three feasts, at which all the males appeared in Jerusalem; for it cannot be thought that he went up and down throughout all parts of the land to deliver this prophecy, but to as many of them as he found in Jerusalem in any place, at any time; and none so likely as what is mentioned: and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem : to whom he had an opportunity of speaking frequently: saying ; as... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:3

From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day ,.... The year in which Jeremiah began to prophesy, Jeremiah 1:2 ; (that is , the three and twentieth year) ; for Josiah reigned one and thirty years; so that Jeremiah prophesied nineteen years in his reign; and now it was the fourth of Jehoiakim's, which make twenty three years; so long the prophet had been prophesying to this people: the word of the Lord hath come unto me ; from time to time,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:4

And the Lord hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets ,.... Not only him, but many others, Micah, Nahum, Zephaniah, and others: rising early and sending them ; not only the prophet, but the Lord himself is said to rise early, and send his prophets to them; which denotes his great care and concern for this people for their good; see Jeremiah 7:25 ; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear ; which is an aggravation of their sin; that whereas they had one... read more

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