Jeremiah 25:22

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

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 25:22

Tyrus and - Zidon - The most ancient of all the cities of the Phoenicians. Kings of the isles which are beyond the sea - As the Mediterranean Sea is most probably meant, and the Phoenicians had numerous colonies on its coasts, I prefer the marginal reading, the kings of the region by the sea side. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 25:22

Verse 22 As to the word Island, the number is to be changed; for the Prophet means not one island, but the countries beyond the sea. Some restrict the reference to Cyprus, Crete, Mitylene, and other islands in the Mediterranean; but it is a common way of speaking in Hebrew, to call all countries beyond the sea islands. “The kings of the islands shall come.” (Psalms 72:10.) The Prophet in that passage calls those the kings of the islands who would come in ships to Judea. So also in this place... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 25:1-38

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 25:12-29

The judgment upon Judah and the nations. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 25:22

Kings of Tyrus, kings of Zidon . Under the names of the two leading cities, the prophet includes the various dependent Phoenician commonwealths. Hence the plural "kings." The isles. The Hebrew has the singular, "the isle," or rather, "the coast-land" (more strictly, the region ), i.e. perhaps either Tartessus in Spain, or Cyprus (which Esarhaddon describes as "lying in the midst of the sea," and as having two kings, 'Records of the Past,' 3:108). read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 25:22

The isles - Rightly explained in the margin; it probably refers here to Cyprus. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 25:22-24

Jeremiah 25:22-24. And all the kings of Tyrus and Zidon The nobles, or chief men of each city, seem to be meant by kings here, for neither of these cities had more than one king. And the kings of the isles, which are beyond the sea Cyprus, &c., which Nebuchadnezzar subjected. Or, as the Hebrew, האי בעבר הים , is rendered in the margin, The region by the sea-side. For that אי , rendered isle in the text, does not always signify an island, properly so called, is manifest from many... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 25:15-38

Judgment on various nations (25:15-38)God is righteous and holy, and in justice pours out his wrath on those who arrogantly defy his authority. His judgment upon wicked nations is likened to a cup of wine given to a person to make him drunk so that he staggers and falls (15-16). Through the spreading conquests of the Babylonian armies, God has punished Judah (17-18), along with a variety of other nations far and near (19-25). But in the end Babylon, the agent God has used to carry out his... read more

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