Jeremiah 25:15-38 WEB

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 25:15

For thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto me ,.... The prophet: take the wine cup of this fury at my hand ; in a vision the Lord appeared to Jeremiah with a cup of wine in his hand, which he bid him take of him. It is usual in Scripture for the judgments of God on men to be signified by a cup of hot and intoxicating liquor, Isaiah 51:17 ; particularly in Psalm 75:8 ; to which reference may be had; as John seems to refer to the passage here in Revelation 14:10 ; called a cup,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:16

And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad ,.... The judgments foretold shall come upon them, whether they will or not; which will have such effects upon them, as intoxicating liquor has on drunken persons; make them shake and tremble, and reel to and fro, and toss and tumble about, and behave like madmen: because of the sword that I will send among them ; this explains what is meant by the wine cup of fury, the sword of a foreign enemy that shall enter among them and destroy; and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:17

Then took I the cup at the Lord's hand ,.... In a visionary way, and did as he commanded, and prophesied as he directed him. The prophet was obedient to the heavenly vision, as became him: and made all the nations to drink, unto whom, the Lord had sent me ; not that he travelled through each of the nations with a cup in his hand, as an emblem of what wrath would come upon them, and they should drink deep of; but this was done in vision, and also in prophecy; the prophet publishing the... read more

John Gill

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:19

Pharaoh king of Egypt ,.... Who is mentioned first after the kings of Judah; not only because the Jews were in alliance with Egypt, and trusted to them; and therefore this is observed, to show the vanity of their confidence and dependence; but because the judgments of God first took place on the king of Egypt; for in this very year, in which this prophecy was delivered, Pharaohnecho king of Egypt was smitten by Nebuchadnezzar, Jeremiah 46:2 ; though the prophecy had a further... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:20

And all the mingled people ,.... Not the Arabians, who are mentioned afterwards, Jeremiah 25:24 ; but rather a mixed people in the land of Egypt, such as came out of it along with the Israelites; or were near it, and bordered upon it, as the Targum; which renders it, all the bordering kings; or rather a mixture of people of different nations that dwelt by the sea coasts, either the Mediterranean, or the Red sea, as others think: and all the kings of the land of Uz ; not the country of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:21

Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon. All well known and implacable enemies of Israel. The Edomites descended from Esau; and the Moabites and Ammonites from Moab and Ammon, the two sons of Lot by his daughters. Their destruction is prophesied of in the forty eighth and forty ninth chapters. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:22

And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon ,.... Two very ancient cities in Phoenicia, frequently mentioned together in Scripture, being near each other. Their ruin is foretold in Jeremiah 47:4 ; and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea ; which some understand of Greece and Italy; others of Rhodes, Cyprus, and Crete, and other islands in the Mediterranean sea; the Cyclades, as Jerom: but the words may be rendered, "and the kings of the country by the seaside";... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 25:15-29

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:22

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