Jeremiah 50:1
The word which Yahweh spake Against Babylon Against the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet:
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Genesis 10:10So the beginning of his kingdom came to be Babel, and Erech, and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
2 Samuel 23:2The Spirit of Yahweh, spake in me,—And, his word, was on my tongue;
Psalms 137:8O ruined daughter of Babylon,—how happy the man who shall repay thee thy dealing, wherewith thou didst deal with us!
Isaiah 14:4that thou shalt take up this taunt over the king of Babylon, and shalt say:—How hath ceased the oppressor! Ceased the exactress!
Isaiah 23:13Lo! the land of the Chaldeans, This is the people that was not, Assyria, founded it for the inhabitants of the desert,—They set up its siege-towers, They demolished its palaces Made it a ruin!
Jeremiah 25:12And it shall some to pass—When the seventy years are fulfilled, I will visit upon the king of Babylon and upon that nation, Declareth Yahweh their iniquity, and upon the land of the Chaldeans,—and I will turn it into age-abiding desolations.
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 →