Jer 25:9, 27:8, Eze 21:19-21, 26:7-10, 30:10-11, Dan 5:19 | TSK | STEP | I. Nebuchadrezzar. against. an astonishment. See on ch.

Jeremiah 25:9

1:15; 5:15,16; 6:1,22-26; 8:16; Le 26:25-46; De 28:45-50; Pr 21:1

Isa 5:26-30; 10:5; 39:7; Hab 1:6-10

Nebuchadrezzar.

27:6; 40:2; 43:10; Isa 13:3; 44:28; 45:1; Eze 29:18-20

against.

17-26; 27:3-8; Eze 26:7; 29:19; 30:10,11

an astonishment. See on ch.

18:16; 24:9; 1Ki 9:7,8

Jeremiah 27:8

And it.There is a peculiar grandeur, as well as propriety, in this method of predicting Nebuchadnezzar's rapid successes. The God of Israel, declaring himself to be the Lord of armies, and the Creator and Owner of the whole earth, with all its inhabitants and productions, and claiming full sovereignty over his creatures, avows his determination, for reasons he does not deign to assign, to give all the countries of the world to the king of Babylon, whom he calls his servant, because he would accomplish an important part of his most righteous designs. They, therefore, who would escape the most dreadful judgments, must submit to the God of Israel, by submitting to Nebuchadnezzar; they must hearken to the prophets of Israel, and not to their own diviners; and they must observe, that Nebuchadnezzar, his son, and his grandson, would whatever opposition should be made, possess the full dominion of all these countries, till the appointed time was expired; and then, these haughty conquerors would in their turn become the prey of other powerful conquerors; all of which was most exactly fulfilled.

that nation.

25:28,29; 38:17-19; 40:9; 42:10-18; 52:3-6; Eze 17:19-21

with the sword.

24:10; Eze 14:21

Ezekiel 21:19-21

4:1-3; 5:1-17; Jer 1:10

Rabbath.

25:5; De 3:11; 2Sa 12:26; Jer 49:2; Am 1:14

Rabbah. the defenced.

2Sa 5:9; 2Ch 26:9; 32:5; 33:14; Ps 48:12,13; 125:1,2; Isa 22:10

La 4:12

the king.

Pr 16:33; 21:1

parting. Heb. mother. to use.

Nu 23:28; De 18:10; 1Sa 15:23; Pr 16:10; Ac 16:16

he made.Or, as the Vulgate, "he mingled his arrows:" "They wrote on several arrows," says Jerome, "the names of the cities they intended to assault; and then putting them altogether promiscuously in a quiver, they drew then out thence as lots are drawn; and that city whose name was written on the arrow first drawn, was the city they first made war on."

arrows. or, knives. images. Heb. teraphim.

Ge 31:19,30; Jud 17:5; 18:14,18,20,24; 2Ki 23:24; Ho 3:4; 4:12

Zec 10:2