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エレミヤ記 25:26

26 北のすべての王たちの遠き者、近き者もつぎつぎに、またすべて地のおもてにある世の国々の王たちもこの杯を飲む。そして彼らの次にバビロンの王もこれを飲む。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Babylon;   Cup;   Government;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Nation;   Sheshach;   Thompson Chain Reference - Nebuchadnezzar;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Babylon;   Edomites, the;   Sidonians, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Egypt;   Sheshach;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Eternal Punishment;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Sheshach;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Chronology;   Jeremiah;   Meshach;   Prophet;   Sheshach;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Sheshach;   World, the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Sheshach;   Writing;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Sheshach ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Jeremi'ah, Book of;   She'shach;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Cup;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Games;   Jeremiah (2);   Sheshach;   World (Cosmological);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Gemaṭria;  

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

all the kings: Jeremiah 25:9, Jeremiah 50:9, Ezekiel 32:30

and the: Jeremiah 51:41

drink: Jeremiah 25:12, Jeremiah 50:1 - Jeremiah 51:64, Isaiah 13:1 - Isaiah 14:32, Isaiah 47:1-15, Daniel 5:1-31, Habakkuk 2:16, Revelation 18:1-24

Reciprocal: Isaiah 14:6 - is persecuted Isaiah 63:6 - make Jeremiah 30:16 - General Jeremiah 45:5 - I will bring Jeremiah 50:12 - the hindermost Revelation 16:19 - in

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another,.... That were on the north of Judea, the kings of Syria, and those that were near to the kingdom of Babylon, whether more remote from Judea, or nearer it and which joined one another in that part of the world;

and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth; the whole Babylonian monarchy, called the whole world; as the Roman empire afterwards was, Luke 2:1;

and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them; or the king of Babylon, as the Targum; and that Babylon is meant by "Sheshach" is certain from Jeremiah 51:41; but why it is so called is not so easy to say. The Jewish writers make it to be the same with Babylon, by a change of the letters in the alphabet, put in such a situation, which they call "Athbash", in which "shin" is put for "beth", and "caph" for "lamed"; and so, instead of Babel or Babylon, you have "Sheshach", which is thought to be used rather than Babylon, that Nebuchadnezzar, now besieging Jerusalem, might not be irritated: but others take it to be the name of an idol of the Babylonians, from whence the city was called, which is not improbable; for, as Hillerus o has observed, their god Bel and Sheshach signify the same thing. Bel is the same as Behal, "swift"; and "Sheshach" may be derived from the Arabic word which signifies "to move swiftly" p; and may both be names of the sun, worshipped by the Chaldeans, so called from the swiftness of its motion. Now in Babylon stood the temple of Bel or Sheshach, and so might have its name from thence: and it may be further observed, what has been by others, that the Babylonians had a public festival, like the Saturnalia of the Romans, which held five days, and was called Sacchoea or Shace, as is supposed from their god Shach, to whom it was kept: to which may be added, that Mishael had the name of Meshach given him in Babylon; "Shach", in the one, answering to "El" in the other; which signifies God, Daniel 1:7. Shach is used for a king or prince in the Persic language to this day. And now the king of Sheshach or Babylon must drink of the cup, or be punished last of all; who was the instrument of destroying most of the rest, yet should not go unpunished.

o Onomastic. Sacr. p. 596, 597, 598, 611. p , "celer fuit, celeriter processit", Golius, col. 2676.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

All the kingdoms of the world ... - In accordance with the usage of Holy Scripture this universality is limited. It is moral and not geographical.

Sheshach - Jerome says that this is the name Babel written in cypher, the letters being transposed. Another example occurs in Jeremiah 51:1, where the words “the heart of my risers up” become the Chaldaeans. The Septuagint omits the clause containing the name.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 25:26. The kings of the north, far and near — The first may mean Syria; the latter, the Hyrcanians and Bactrians.

And the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.Sheshach was an ancient king of Babylon, who was deified after his death. Here it means either Babylon, or Nebuchadnezzar the king of it. After it has been the occasion of ruin to so many other nations, Babylon itself shall be destroyed by the Medo-Persians.


 
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