Jeremiah 51

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 51

The prophet, in this chapter, goes on with the prediction of Babylon's fall, to which other prophets also bore witness. He is very copious and lively in describing the foresight God had given him of it, for the encouragement of the pious captives, whose deliverance depended upon it and was to be the result of it. Here is, I. The record of Babylon's doom, with the particulars of it, intermixed with the grounds of God's controversy with her, many aggravations of her fall, and great... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 51:1-58

The particulars of this copious prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to so often that it could not well be divided into parts, but we must endeavor to collect them under their proper heads. Let us then observe here, I. An acknowledgment of the great pomp and power that Babylon had been in and the use that God in his providence had made of it (Jer. 51:7): Babylon hath been a golden cup, a rich and glorious empire, a golden city (Isa. 14:4), a head of gold... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 51:59-64

We have been long attending the judgment of Babylon in this and the foregoing chapter; now here we have the conclusion of that whole matter. 1. A copy is taken of this prophecy, it should seem by Jeremiah himself, for Baruch his scribe is not mentioned here (Jer. 51:60): Jeremiah wrote in a book all these words that are here written against Babylon. He received this notice that he might give it to all whom it might concern. It is of great advantage both to the propagating and to the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 51

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 51 The former part of this chapter is a continuation of the prophecy of the preceding chapter, concerning the destruction of Babylon, Jeremiah 51:1 ; the latter part of it contains a prophecy of Jeremiah sent to the captives in Babylon by the hand of Seraiah, with the copy of the above prophecy against Babylon, and an order to fasten a stone to it, and cast it into the river Euphrates, as a sign, confirming the utter and irreparable ruin of Babylon, Jeremiah... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 51:1

Thus saith the Lord, behold, I will raise up against Babylon ,.... This is not a new prophecy, but a continuation of the former, and an enlargement of it. The Babylonians being the last and most notorious enemies of the Jews, their destruction is the longer dwelt upon; and as they were against the Lord's people the Lord was against them, and threatens to raise up instruments of his vengeance against them: and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me ; that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 51:2

And I will send unto Babylon farmers, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land ,.... Or, "strangers that shall fan her" F3 זרים "alienos", Cocceius; some in Vatablus; so Kimchi, Ben Melech, Abendana. ; meaning the Medes and Persians, who should be like a strong wind upon the mountains, where corn, having been threshed, was fanned, and the chaff carried away by the wind; and such would the Chaldeans be in the hand of the Persians, scattered and dispersed among the nations as chaff... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 51:3

Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow ,.... These are either the words of the Lord to the Medes and Persians, to the archers among them, to bend their bows and level their arrows against the Chaldeans, who had bent their bows and shot their arrows against others; or of the Medes and Persians stirring up one another to draw their bows, and fight manfully against the enemy: and against him that lifteth up himself in his brigandine ; or coat of mail; that swaggers about... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 51:4

Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans ,.... By the sword, or by the arrows and darts of the Medes and Persians: and they that are thrust through in her streets ; either by the one or by the other, especially the latter, since they only are mentioned; See Gill on Jeremiah 50:30 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 51:5

For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God , of the Lord of hosts ,.... That is, not totally and finally; for though they might seem to be forsaken, when carried captive by their enemies, yet they were not in such sense as a woman is deprived of her husband when dead, and she is become a widow, as the word F4 אלמן "viduus, sive viduatus", Vatablus, Calvin, Montanus; "ut vidua", Pagninus; "orbus", Schmidt. used may signify; or when divorced from him; or as... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 51:6

Flee out of the midst of Babylon ,.... This is said either to such as were there of other nations upon trade and business, as Kimchi, to get out of it as fast as they could, that they might not be consumed; or to the Israelites, as Jarchi, the Jews that were captives there. This is applied to the people of God in mystical Babylon, Revelation 18:4 ; and deliver every man his soul ; or "life"; from the destruction coming on the city, and the inhabitants of it; be not cut off in her... read more

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