Jeremiah 50:1

And it came to pass, when Jeremiah ceased speaking to the people all the words of the Lord, for which the Lord had sent him to them, even all these words,

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The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.

In Context

2that Azariah son of Hoshaiah spoke, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the men who had spoken to Jeremiah, saying, It is false: the Lord has not sent thee to us, saying, Enter not into Egypt to dwell there:

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Cross References

Genesis 10:10And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

2 Samuel 23:2The Spirit of the Lord spoke by me, 1 And his word was upon my tongue. 1

Psalms 137:8O Lord, thou shalt recompense them on my behalf: 1 Thy mercy, O Lord, endures forever: 1 Overlook not the works of thy hands.

Isaiah 14:4And thou shalt take up this lamentation against the king of Babylon, How has the extortioner ceased, and the taskmaster ceased!

Isaiah 23:13And if thou depart to the land of the Chaldeans, this also is laid waste by the Assyrians, for her wall is fallen.

Jeremiah 25:12And when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will take vengeance on that nation, and will make them a perpetual desolation.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 50:1

In this chapter, and that which follows, we have the judgment of Babylon, which is put last of Jeremiah's prophecies against the Gentiles because it was last accomplished; and when the cup of God's fury went round ( ch.25.17 ) the king of Sheshach, Babylon, drank last. Babylon was employed as the rod in God's hand for the chastising of all the other nations, and now at length that rod shall be thrown into the fire. The destruction of Babylon by Cyrus was foretold, long before it came to its height, by Isaiah, and… Read the whole commentary →

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