Jeremiah 50:1
The word that the Lord spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.
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Genesis 10:10The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
2 Samuel 23:2"The Spirit of the Lord spoke by me.His word was on my tongue.
Psalms 137:8Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction,he will be happy who rewards you,as you have served us.
Isaiah 14:4that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased! How the attacker has ceased!"
Isaiah 23:13Behold, the land of the Chaldeans. This people was not. The Assyrians founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. They set up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. They made it a ruin.
Jeremiah 25:12It shall happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, says the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate forever.
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 →