Jeremiah 51:38-43

roar.

2:15; Job 4:10,11; Ps 34:10; 58:6; Isa 35:9; Na 2:11-13; Zec 11:3

yell. or, shake themselves.

Jud 16:20

their heat.

25:27; Isa 21:4,5; 22:12-14; Da 5:1-4,30; Na 1:10; 3:11

and sleep.

57; Ps 13:3; 76:5,6

50:27; Ps 37:20; 44:22; Isa 34:6; Eze 39:18

Sheshach.Sheshach was probably an idol worshipped at Babylon, from which the city derived this name; and the festival which was held when the city was taken, when they were heated with wine, was perhaps observed in honour of it.

25:26; Da 5:1-3

the praise.

49:25; 50:23; Isa 13:19; 14:4; Da 2:38; 4:22,30; 5:4,5; Re 18:10-19

an astonishment.

37; 50:46; De 28:37; 2Ch 7:21; Eze 27:35

Ps 18:4,16; 42:7; 65:7; 93:3; Isa 8:7,8; Eze 27:26-34; Da 9:26

Lu 21:25; Re 17:15,16

cities.

29,37; 50:39,40

a land.

2:6; Isa 13:20; Eze 29:10,11

Jeremiah 51:53-57

mount.

25,58; 49:16; Ge 11:4; Ps 139:8-10; Isa 14:12-15; 47:5,7

Eze 31:9-11; Da 4:30; Am 9:4; Ob 1:3,4

from.

1-4,11,48; 50:9,10,21,25,31-34,45; Isa 10:6,7; 13:2-5,17

Isa 41:25; 45:1-5

48:3-5; 50:22,27,43,46; Isa 13:6-9; 15:5; Zep 1:10; Re 18:17-19

destroyed.

38,39; 25:10; 50:10-15; Isa 15:1; 24:8-11; 47:5; Re 18:22,23

her waves.

Ps 65:7; 93:3,4; Isa 17:13; Eze 26:3; Lu 21:25; Re 17:15

the spoiler.

48; 50:10; Isa 21:2; Hab 2:8; Re 17:16

her mighty.

30; 50:36

every.

49:35; Ge 49:24; 1Sa 2:4; Ps 37:15; 46:9; 76:3; Eze 39:3,9

the Lord.

6,24; 50:28,29; De 32:35; Ps 94:1,2; 137:8; Isa 34:8; 35:4; 59:18

2Th 1:6; Re 18:5,6,20; 19:2

I will.

39; 25:27; Isa 21:4,5; Da 5:1-4,30,31; Na 1:10; Hab 2:15-17

Re 18:6,7,9

sleep a.

Ps 76:5,6; Isa 37:36

the king.

46:18; 48:15; Mal 1:14

Ezekiel 32:18-32

wail.

2,16; 21:6,7; Isa 16:9; Mic 1:8; Lu 19:41; Ro 12:15

cast.That is, predict that they shall be cast down.

43:3; Jer 1:10; Ho 6:5

the daughters.The cities and colonies of the celebrated nations afterwards enumerated.

unto the.

21,24-32; 26:20; 31:14; Ps 30:9; 63:9; Isa 14:15

dost.

27:3,4; 28:12-17; 31:2,18

go.

Isa 14:9-15

with.

21,24,29,30; 28:10; 1Sa 17:26,36; Jer 9:25,26

fall.

23-26,29,30; 29:8-12

she is delivered to the sword. or, the sword is laid. draw.

Ps 28:3; Pr 24:11; Jer 22:19

strong.Pharaoh is here represented as descending into the regions of the dead, whither many mighty warriors and potentates had gone before him, who welcome him to their dreary mansion.

27; Isa 1:31; 14:9,10; Lu 16:23,24

gone.

19,24,25; Nu 16:30-34; Ps 9:17; 55:15; Pr 14:32

24,26,29,30; 31:3-18; Nu 24:24; Ps 83:8-10

Assur.

Isa 30:33; 37:36-38; Na 1:7-12; 3:1-19

graves.The niches in the sides of the subterranean burying places.

26:20; Isa 14:15

which.

24-27,32; 26:17,20; Isa 14:16; 51:12,13

terror. or, dismaying. the land.

26:20; Job 28:13; Ps 27:13; 116:9; 142:5; Isa 38:11; Jer 11:19

Elam.

Ge 10:22; 14:1; 1Ch 1:17; Jer 25:25; 49:34-39; Da 8:2

which are.

18,21; 26:20

which caused.

23

borne.

25,30; 16:52,54; 34:29; 36:6,7,15; 39:26; 44:13; Jer 3:24,25

Hab 2:16

set her.

Ps 139:8; Re 2:22

a bed.A cell, or bier, in the sepulchral vault, in which the corpse was deposited.

all of them.

19,21; 44:7,9; 2Sa 1:20; 1Ch 10:4; Ac 7:51

though.

Lu 12:4,5

Meshech.Supposed to be the Moschi, a people between Iberia and Armenia, from whom, probably the Muscovites are descended.

27:13; 38:2,3; 39:1; Ge 10:2,12; 1Ch 1:5

Tubal.Probably the Tibarenians, a people of Pontus, west of the Moschians.

all of.

19,20,24

caused.

23,27,32

shall not.

21; Job 3:13-15; Isa 14:18,19

to hell.That is, to the grave; and are buried in their armour, with their weapons lying by their sides, as was a very ancient practice in various nations.

their weapons of war. Heb. weapons of their war.

Isa 54:17; 2Co 10:4

but.

18:20; Job 20:11; Ps 49:14; 92:7,9; 109:18; Pr 14:32; Joh 8:24

Da 2:34,35

Edom.

25:1-17; 35:1-15; Ge 25:30; 36:1-19; Isa 34:1-17; 63:1-6

Jer 49:7-22; Am 1:11,12; Ob 1:1,2-9; Mal 1:3,4

laid. Heb. given, or put.

the princes.The kings of Media, Armenia, and other nations north of Chaldea, or of the Syrians and others north of Judah, with "all the Zidonians," kings of Zidon, Tyre, and other cities of Phoenicia.

38:6,15; 39:2, Jer 25:22

and bear.

24,25

Pharaoh shall.Pharaoh, who said he was a god, shall be found among the dead.

shall be.Shall console himself, when he sees all these mighty nations and proud conquerors in the same condition as himself.

14:22; 31:16; La 2:13

27; Ge 35:5; Job 31:23; Jer 25:15-38; Zep 3:6-8; 2Co 5:11

Heb 10:31; Re 6:15-17

Ezekiel 38:9-23

shalt ascend.

13:11; Isa 21:1,2; 25:4; 28:2; Da 11:40

like.

16; Jer 4:13; Joe 2:2

all thy.

Isa 8:9,10

that at.

Ps 83:3,4; 139:2; Pr 19:21; Isa 10:7; Mr 7:21; Joh 13:2; Ac 5:3,9

Ac 8:22; 1Co 4:5

think an evil thought. or, conceive a mischievous purpose.

Ps 36:4; Pr 6:14,18; 12:2; Mic 2:1

go up.

Ex 15:9; Ps 10:9; Pr 1:11-16; Isa 37:24,25; Ro 3:15

go to.

Jud 18:7,27; Jer 49:31,32; Zec 2:4,5

safely. or, confidently.

8; Pr 3:29,30

take a spoil, and to take a prey. Heb. spoil the spoil, andto prey the prey.

29:19; *marg:

Isa 10:6; Jer 30:16

turn.

Isa 1:24,25; Am 1:8; Zec 13:7

the desolate.

36:33-35; Jer 32:43,44; 33:12,13; Zec 1:12,17

and upon.

8; Zec 10:8-10

midst. Heb. navel.

Jud 9:37; *marg:

Sheba.

27:12,15,20,22,23,25

with.

19:3-6; 32:2; Ps 57:4; Jer 50:17; 51:38; Na 2:11-13; Zec 11:3

in that.

Isa 4:1,2

dwelleth.

8,11; Jer 23:6; Zec 2:5,8

shalt.

37:28

thy place.

39:2; Da 11:40

and many.

4,6; Joe 3:2; Zep 3:8; Zec 12:2-4; 14:2,3; Re 16:14,16; 20:8

as a cloud.

9

it shall be.Though it is not generally agreed what people or transactions are here predicted, yet it seems evident that the prophecy is not yet accomplished. Nothing occurred in the wars of Cambyses, or Antiochus Epiphanes with the Jews, that answers to it; and the expression here used, in the latter days, plainly implies that there should be a succession of many ages between the publication of the prediction and its accomplishment. It is therefore supposed, with much probability, that its fulfilment will be posterior to the conversion of the Jews and their restoration to their own land; and that the Turks, Tarters, or Scythians, from the northern parts of Asia, perhaps uniting with the inhabitants of some more southern regions, will make war upon the Jews and be cut off in a manner predicted here.

8; De 31:29; Isa 2:2; Da 2:28; 10:14; Ho 3:5; Mic 4:1; 1Ti 4:1

2Ti 3:1

that the.

23; 36:23; 39:21; Ex 14:4; 1Sa 17:45-47; 2Ki 19:19; Ps 83:17,18

Da 3:24-29; 4:32-37; 6:15-27; Mic 7:15-17; Mt 6:9,10

whom.

10,11,16; Ps 110:5,6; Isa 27:1; 34:1-6; 63:1-6; 66:15,16

Da 11:40-45; Joe 3:9-14; Zec 12:2-8; 14:1-21

by. Heb. the hands of.

that.

36:5,6; De 32:22; Ps 18:7,8; 89:46; Na 1:2; Heb 12:29

in my.

39:25; De 29:20; Isa 42:13; Joe 2:18; Zec 1:14

Surely.

Joe 3:16; Hag 2:6,7,21,22; Heb 12:26; Re 11:13; 16:18,20

the fishes.

Jer 4:23-26; Ho 4:3; Na 1:4-6; Zec 14:4,5; Re 6:12,13

steep places. or, towers, or stairs.

Isa 30:25; 2Co 10:4

I will.

14:17; Ps 105:16

every.

Jud 7:22; 1Sa 14:20; 2Ch 20:23; Hag 2:22

I will plead.

Isa 66:16; Jer 25:31; Zec 14:12-15

with pestilence.

5:17

an overflowing.

13:11; Ge 19:24; Ex 9:22-25; Jos 10:11; Ps 11:6; 18:12-14; 77:16-18

Isa 28:17; 29:6; 30:30-33; Mt 7:27; Re 16:21

magnify.

36:23

and I.

16; 37:28; 39:7,13,27; Ps 9:16; Re 15:3,4; 19:1-6

Ezekiel 39:1-10

1 God's judgment upon Gog.

8 Israel's victory.

11 Gog's burial in Hamon-gog.

17 The feast of the fowls.

21 Israel having been plagued for their sins,

25 shall be gathered again with eternal favour.

son.

38:2,3

Behold.

35:3; Na 2:13; 3:5

the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.Or, "prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal."

38:2

I will.It is probable that none of the invaders will escape: but perhaps the inhabitants of Magog in general are meant. The immense army of Gog, led forth against Israel, will almost empty his land; and the subsequent judgments of God upon those that remain at home, will reduce them to a sixth of the whole.

Ps 40:14; 68:2; Isa 37:29

leave but the sixth part of thee. or, strike thee with sixplagues; or, draw thee back with a hook of six teeth, as ch. 38:4. and will cause.

38:15; Da 11:40

north parts. Heb. sides of the north.

20:21-24; Ps 46:9; 76:3; Jer 21:4,5; Ho 1:5

fall.

17-20; 38:21

I will.

32:4,5; 33:27; Isa 34:2-8; Jer 15:3; Re 19:17-21

sort. Heb. wing. to be devoured. Heb. to devour.

open field. Heb. face of the field.

29:5; 32:4; Jer 8:2; 22:19

I will.Some terrible judgment will destroy the countries whence the army of Gog was led forth, about the same time that the army itself shall be cut off.

30:8,16; 38:19-22; Am 1:4,7,10; Na 1:6

carelessly. or, confidently.

38:11; Jud 18:7

in the isles.

38:6,13; Ps 72:10; Isa 66:19; Jer 25:22; Zep 2:11

will I.

22; 38:16,23

and I will.

20:9,14,39; 36:20,21,36; Ex 20:7; Le 18:21

the heathen.

38:16,23

the Holy.

Isa 12:6; 43:3,14; 55:5; 60:9,14

it is come.The prophet, seeing in vision the accomplishment of the prediction, speaks of it as already come and done.

7:2-10; Isa 33:10-12; Re 16:17; 21:6

this.

38:17; 2Pe 3:8

shall go.

Ps 111:2,3; Isa 66:24; Mal 1:5

and shall.

10; Jos 11:6; Ps 46:9; Zec 9:10

set on fire.The language here employed seems to intimate that the army of Gog will be cut off by miracle, as that of Sennacherib; for the people are described as going forth, not to fight and conquer, but merely to gather the spoil, and to destroy the weapons of war, as no longer of use.

hand staves. or, javelins. and they.When the immense number and destruction of the invaders are considered, and also the little fuel comparatively which is necessary in warm climates, we may easily conceive of this being literally fulfilled.

burn them with fire. or, make a fire of them.

shall spoil.

Ex 3:22; 12:36; Isa 14:2; 33:1; Mic 5:8; Hab 3:8; Zep 2:9,10; Mt 7:2

Re 13:10; 18:6

Daniel 7:23-27

the fourth.

7; 2:40; Lu 2:1

the ten.

20; Re 12:3; 13:1; 17:3,12,13,16-18

another.This evidently points out the papal supremacy, in every respect diverse from the former, which from small beginnings thrust itself up among the ten kingdoms, till at length it successively eradicated three of them, the kingdom of Heruli, of the Ostrogoths, and of the Lombards.

8,20; 8:9-12; 11:36; 2Th 2:3-10; 1Ti 4:1-3

he shall speak.In assuming infallibility, professing to forgive sins, and to open and shut heaven, thundering out bulls and anathemas, excommunicating princes, absolving subjects from their allegiance, and exacting obedience to his decrees in open violation of reason and Scripture.

8,20; 8:24,25; 11:28,30,31,36,37; Isa 37:23; 2Th 2:4; Re 13:5,6,11

shall wear out.By wars, crusades, massacres, etc.

Re 6:9,10; 11:7-10; 13:7-10; 14:12; 16:6; 17:6; 18:24

and think.Appointing feasts and fasts, canonizing saints, etc.

2:21; 11:31,36-38; 12:11; 2Th 2:4; 1Ti 4:1-3; Re 13:15-17

a time.That is, three years and a half, or, reckoning thirty days to a month, 1,260 days, equal to the same number of years in prophetic language; which, dated from the decree of Phocas constituting him the supreme head of the church, A.D. 606, terminated in 1866.

4:25,32; 12:7,11,12; Re 11:2,3; 12:6,14; 13:5,7

10,11,22; 2Th 2:8; Re 11:13; 20:10,11

the kingdom and.

14,18,22; Ps 149:5-9; Isa 49:23-26; 54:3; 60:11-16; Zep 3:19,20

Zec 14:9; Re 20:4

whose kingdom.

2:44; 4:34; Ps 145:13; Isa 9:7; Lu 1:33; Joh 12:34

and all.

Ps 2:6-12; 22:27; 72:11; 86:9; Isa 60:12; Ob 1:21; Re 11:15

dominions. or, rulers.

Re 17:14; 19:16