John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:25
And all the kings of Zimri ,.... Of Arabia Felix, so called from Zimran, a son of Abraham by Keturah, Genesis 25:2 ; the same whom Pliny F14 Nat. Hist. I. 6. c. 28. calls Zamerenes; and all the kings of Elam ; or Persia; who are prophesied against in Jeremiah 49:34 ; and all the kings of the Medes ; who commonly go together with the Persians. 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