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Jeremiah 50:40

in Jeremiah 50

As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah along with their neighbors,” declares the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, saith Jehovah, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.

KJV

As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the Lord; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.

This verse in Jeremiah 50

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the Lord,.... Admah and Zeboim: so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein; the same is said concerning Edom; See Gill on Jer 49:18.

This site's exposition

A sword is upon the Chaldeans

on Jeremiah 50:35-40

The sword refrain sweeps through Babylon class by class, princes, wise men, horses and chariots, treasures, seven strokes in five verses naming everyone from the court's counselors to its wealth. Verse 38 adds a drought upon her waters, dried up, which later history reads literally, Cyrus's forces diverting the Euphrates to enter the city by its own riverbed, the detail the bench treats as prophecy matched by the event. The comparison to Sodom and Gomorrah at verse 40, no man to abide there, states the permanence of the desolation the same way chapter 49 states it for Edom.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

No man - Cyrus only made them tributaries, and took away their government. But Seleucus Nicanor, a Grecian prince, utterly destroyed Babylon, so that in the time of Adrian the Roman emperor, there was nothing left standing of that great city.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The same was foretold concerning Edom, ch. xlix. As the Chaldeans had laid Edom waste, so they shall themselves be laid waste. (3.) The king and kingdom shall be put into the utmost confusion and consternation by the enemies' invading them,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

As God overthrew Sodom - As the very ground on which these cities stood, with all the plain, now lies under the Dead Sea; so Babylon and the adjacent country shall be rendered totally barren and unfruitful, and utterly incapable of being inhabited. And this is the fact concerning both countries. See Jer 49:18.

The words behind it

19 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • כְּמַהְפֵּכַ֨תlike [the] overthrow of

    kemahpekhatH4114

  • אֱלֹהִ֜יםGod

    ʾelohimH4302601 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • סְדֹ֧םSodom

    sedomH546739 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH85310935 times

  • עֲמֹרָ֛הGomorrah

    ʾamorahH601719 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH85310935 times

  • שְׁכֵנֶ֖יהָneighbors its

    shekheneihaH793420 times

  • נְאֻם־[the] utterance of

    neum-H5002376 times

  • יְהוָ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • לֹֽא־not

    lo'-H38085168 times

  • יֵשֵׁ֥בhe will dwell

    yeshevH34271079 times

  • שָׁם֙there

    shamH8033834 times

  • אִ֔ישׁanyone

    ʾishH3761663 times

  • וְלֹֽא־and not

    velo'-H38085168 times

  • יָג֥וּרhe will sojourn

    yagurH148197 times

  • בָּ֖הּin <the> it

    bah

  • בֶּן־a child of

    ben-H11214930 times

  • אָדָֽם׃humankind

    ʾadamH120551 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Jude 1:7

    In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 29:23

      All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Romans 1:26–27

      For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.

    • 2 Peter 2:6

      if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;

    • Genesis 19:24–26

      Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.

    • Genesis 18:20

      Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,

  • Through

    Jeremiah 49:18

    As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,” says the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 49:33

      “Hazor will become a haunt for jackals, a desolation forever. No one will dwell there; no man will abide there.”

    • Job 18:15–18

      Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.

    • Genesis 19:24–25

      Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.

About Jeremiah

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.