Edom, Moab, and the children of Ammon; and all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea; Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who have the corners of their beard cut off;
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Then I took the cup at Yahweh’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me: Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, with its kings and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is today; Pharaoh king of Egypt, with his servants, his princes, and all his people; and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod; Edom, Moab, and the children of Ammon; and all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea; Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who have the corners of their beard cut off; and all the kings of Arabia, all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the wilderness; and all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes; and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which are on the surface of the earth. The king of Sheshach will drink after them.
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Edom, Moab, and the children of Ammon;
and all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;
Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who have the corners of their beard cut off;
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Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,
Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,
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Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon;
and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;
Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that have the corners of their hair polled;
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- Jeremiah 9:26 (vv21, 23) Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness, for all…
- Jeremiah 47:4 (v22) because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains; for Yahweh will…
- Jeremiah 48:1–49:22 (v21) Of Moab. Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Woe to Nebo! For it is laid waste. Kiriathaim is disappointed. It is taken. Misgab is…
- Jeremiah 49:8 (v23) Flee! Turn back! Dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him when I visit him.
- Jeremiah 49:32 (v23) Their camels will be a booty, and the multitude of their livestock a plunder. I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners of…
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- Genesis 22:21 (v23) Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,
- Job 6:19 (v23) The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them.
- Psalms 137:7 (v21) Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, “Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!”
- Jeremiah 27:3 (vv21–22) Then send them to the king of Edom, to the king of Moab, to the king of the children of Ammon, to the king of Tyre, and to the king of…
- Genesis 10:7 (v23) The sons of Cush were: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah were: Sheba and Dedan.
- Genesis 25:15 (v23) Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
- 1 Chronicles 1:30 (v23) Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema,
- Isaiah 15:1-9 (v21) The burden of Moab. For in a night, Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing. For in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought…
- Isaiah 21:13-14 (v23) The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, you caravans of Dedanites. They brought water to him who was thirsty. The…
- Isaiah 25:10 (v21) For Yahweh’s hand will rest in this mountain. Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the…
- Isaiah 34:1-17 (v21) Come near, you nations, to hear! Listen, you peoples. Let the earth and all it contains hear, the world, and everything that comes from it.…
- Isaiah 63:1-6 (v21) Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? Who is this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of…
- Jeremiah 31:10 (v22) “Hear Yahweh’s word, you nations, and declare it in the distant islands. Say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a…
- Jeremiah 49:23-27 (v22) Of Damascus: “Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil news. They have melted away. There is sorrow on the sea. It can’t…
- Lamentations 4:21-22 (v21) Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwells in the land of Uz. The cup will pass through to you also. You will be drunken, and will…
- Ezekiel 25:2-14 (v21) “Son of man, set your face toward the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them. Tell the children of Ammon, ‘Hear the word of the Lord…
- Ezekiel 25:13 (v23) therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “I will stretch out my hand on Edom, and will cut off man and animal from it; and I will make it desolate…
- Ezekiel 26:1-21 (v22) In the eleventh year, in the first of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, “Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem,…
- Ezekiel 27:20 (v23) “ ‘ “Dedan was your trafficker in precious cloths for riding.
- Ezekiel 28:22-23 (v22) and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Sidon. I will be glorified among you. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when…
- Ezekiel 29:18 (v22) “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every…
- Ezekiel 32:29 (v21) “There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, who in their might are laid with those who are slain by the sword. They will lie with the…
- Ezekiel 32:30 (v22) “There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down with the slain. They are put to shame in the…
- Ezekiel 35:1-15 (v21) Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it, and tell it, ‘The Lord…
- Joel 3:4-8 (v22) “Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and…
- Amos 1:3-5 (v22) Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead…
- Amos 1:9-10 (v22) Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Tyre, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they delivered up the whole…
- Amos 1:11–2:3 (v21) Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the…
- Obadiah 1:1-16 (v21) The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord Yahweh says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the…
- Obadiah 1:18 (v21) The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour…
- Zephaniah 2:8-10 (v21) I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified…
- Zechariah 9:1-4 (v22) A revelation. Yahweh’s word is against the land of Hadrach, and will rest upon Damascus; for the eye of man and of all the tribes of Israel…
- Malachi 1:2-4 (v21) “I have loved you,” says Yahweh. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh, “Yet I loved Jacob; but…
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain On vv21–23 The same words are ever to be repeated, that…
The same words are ever to be repeated, that Jeremiah made all these nations to drink the cup. He mentions the Idumeans, the posterity of Esau, and also the Moabites, the descendants of Lot, as also were the Ammonites There was a relationship between these three nations and the Israelites; hence the Prophet seems designedly to have connected these three nations together. He adds —
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv21–23 Edom is here taken for the whole country, and…
Edom is here taken for the whole country, and Uz for a part thereof.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv21–23 Jer 25:21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of…
Jer 25:21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,
Ver. 21. Edom and Moab, &c.] By the destruction of all these nations we may make a conjecture at the destructiou of all the wicked, when Christ shall come to judgment. All that befalleth them in this world, is but as drops of wrath forerunning the great storm: or as a crack foretokening the fall of the whole house. Here the leaves only fall upon them as it were, but then the body of the tree in its full weight to crush them for ever.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv21–23 The Edomites were the posterity of Esau the son…
The Edomites were the posterity of Esau the son of Isaac, to whom God had given a land which they inherited, and he would not suffer the Israelites to make their way through them by force, when they denied them a passage through their country; now he threatens their ruin, as also Jer 49:7; and Obadiah’s prophecy was against them, where their triumphing in the captivity of the Jews is mentioned as one thing that had provoked God against them. The Moabites and Ammonites were descended from Lot. Jer 48 is an entire prophecy against Moab; they had lived in long prosperity, as appears there, Jer 25:12; so had the Ammonites, against whom also Jeremiah prophesied particularly, Jer 49:1-7.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv21–23 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon. All…
Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon. All well known and implacable enemies of Israel. The Edomites descended from Esau; and the Moabites and Ammonites from Moab and Ammon, the two sons of Lot by his daughters. Their destruction is prophesied of in the forty eighth and forty ninth chapters.
Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon. All well known and implacable enemies of Israel. The Edomites descended from Esau; and the Moabites and Ammonites from Moab and Ammon, the two sons of Lot by his daughters. Their destruction is prophesied of in the forty eighth and forty ninth chapters.
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jer 25:22And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon,.... Two very ancient cities in Phoenicia, frequently mentioned together in Scripture, being near each other. Their ruin is foretold in Jer 47:4;
and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea; which some understand of Greece and Italy; others of Rhodes, Cyprus, and Crete, and other islands in the Mediterranean sea; the Cyclades, as Jerom: but the words may be rendered, "and the kings of the country by the seaside"; and may design those that dwell upon the coast of the Mediterranean sea.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv22–23 Beyond the sea - Probably those parts of Syria…
Beyond the sea - Probably those parts of Syria that coasted upon the mid-land sea.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv22–23 Verse 22. Tyrus and - Zidon] The most ancient…
Verse 22. Tyrus and - Zidon] The most ancient of all the cities of the Phoenicians.
Kings of the isles which are beyond the sea.] As the Mediterranean Sea is most probably meant, and the Phoenicians had numerous colonies on its coasts, I prefer the marginal reading, the kings of the region by the sea side.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v22 Jer 25:22-24. And all the kings of Tyrus and…
Jer 25:22-24. And all the kings of Tyrus and Zidon — The nobles, or chief men of each city, seem to be meant by kings here, for neither of these cities had more than one king. And the kings of the isles, which are beyond the sea — Cyprus, &c., which Nebuchadnezzar subjected. Or, as the Hebrew, האי בעבר הים, is rendered in the margin, The region by the sea-side. For that אי, rendered isle in the text, does not always signify an island, properly so called, is manifest from many passages. Dedan, and Tema, and Buz — A person called Dedan was descended from Abraham by Keturah, Gen 25:3. Probably he founded the city Dedan; which, however, in process of time, seems to have been annexed to Edom: see Jer 49:8; Eze 25:13. Tema was one of the sons of Ishmael, Gen 25:15, and a city, or district, called after him, was situate near the mountains which separate Arabia from Chaldea. — An. Univ. Hist., vol. 7. p. 230, fol. Buz was the brother of Uz, Gen 22:21, and settled most probably, in his neighbourhood. Elihu, the wisest of Job’s friends, was a Buzite, Job 32:2. And all that are in the utmost corners — Or, all that have the coast insulated, as Blaney translates it: see note on Jer 9:26. These, he supposes, to be the inhabitants of the peninsula of Arabia, especially those situate toward the bottom, or narrow part of it. And all the kings of Arabia — “The whole country to which we give the general name of Arabia seems to have been thrown, in Scripture, into two great divisions, one of which is called properly ערבה, Arabah, the other קדם, Kedem, according to their respective situations; Arabah, signifying the west, as Kedem does the east. Each of these had their subdivisions; the first, comprehending that which geographers have distinguished by the name of Arabia Petræa, and also, perhaps, those parts along the western coast of the Red sea bordering upon Egypt. The other part, called Kedem, comprehended Arabia Felix, and Arabia Deserta; the former of which the Scripture seems to have distinguished by the name of קצוצי פאת, those that have their coast insulated, mentioned in the preceding verse; and the latter in this verse, by the mingled race of those that dwell in the desert, meaning such as inhabited the great desert country, lying between Mesopotamia and Palestine. These may have been so called from the manner of inhabiting the desert promiscuously and in common, without any fixed property or abode, settling, for a time, where they found pasture, and then removing with their flocks to another place; or, from their being made up of people of different descents.” — Blaney.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv22–23 The isles - Rightly explained in the margin; it…
The isles - Rightly explained in the margin; it probably refers here to Cyprus.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv21–23 Ammon. The details are given in chap. xlviii., and…
Ammon. The details are given in chap. xlviii., and xlix., and Ezechiel xxv. to xxxiv., and Abdias and Sophonias.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv21–23 Edom . . . Moab . . . Ammon--joined…
Edom . . . Moab . . . Ammon--joined together, as being related to Israel (see Jer. 48:1-49:39).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv22–23 22. Kings of Tyrus, etc. The plural is, in…
22. Kings of Tyrus, etc. The plural is, in Jer_25:18; Jer_19:3; Jer_13:13, used to include the present kings and their successors. Isles, more exactly, as in the margin, region by the sea side, probably including generally the colonies in and upon the Mediterranean.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv22–23 22. Zidon] the ordinary form of the name in…
22. Zidon] the ordinary form of the name in the O.T. Cp. Jer_27:3, Jer_47:4. Sidon, as the Greek form, is that which occurs in the N.T.
isle] mg. coastland, lit. where a mariner betakes himself for refuge or rest; hence used of the colonies planted by Phoenicians on the shores of the Mediterranean.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv22–23 (22) The isles which are beyond the sea.—Better, island.…
(22) The isles which are beyond the sea.—Better, island. The Hebrew word is in the singular, and is properly, as in the margin, a “region by the sea-side”—a “coast-land,” and thus wider in its extent than our “island.” Here the position in which it occurs tends to identify it either with Cyprus or the coast of Cilicia, or Phœnician colonies generally in the Mediterranean. Cyprus seems the most probable of these.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv22–23 Kings of Tyrus, kings of Zidon. Under the names…
Kings of Tyrus, kings of Zidon. Under the names of the two leading cities, the prophet includes the various dependent Phoenician commonwealths. Hence the plural "kings." The isles. The Hebrew has the singular, "the isle," or rather, "the coast-laud" (more strictly, the region), i.e. perhaps either Tartessus in Spain, or Cyprus (which Esarhaddon describes as "lying in the midst of the sea," and as having two kings, "Records of the Past," 3:108).
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v22 Connecting Statement:
Connecting Statement:
This passage continues the metaphor of Yahweh's extreme anger as wine that he causes the people of the nations to drink from a cup. (See: Metaphor)
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the sea
This is a reference to the Mediterranean Sea.
Dedan, Tema, and Buz
These are the names of places. (See: How to Translate Names)
all the ones who cut the hair on the sides of their heads
This probably refers to people who cut their hair short in order to honor a pagan god. Some modern versions interpret this Hebrew expression as "all the people who live on the edge of the wilderness." See how you translated a similar phrase in Jeremiah 9:26.
they also had to drink it
"they also had to drink the wine from the cup"
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Tyre
Sidon
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv21, 23 25:21-22 The small nations of Edom, Moab, and Ammon…
25:21-22 The small nations of Edom, Moab, and Ammon were east and southeast of the Dead Sea. The Phoenician cities of Tyre and Sidon were to the northwest, along the Mediterranean Sea. The regions across the sea were probably the islands of Cyprus and Crete.
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