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Jeremiah 51:27

in Jeremiah 51

“Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her—Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses like swarming locusts.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker-worm.

KJV

Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.

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This verse in Jeremiah 51

Commentary

7 notes on this verse
Ararat, see the Gen 8:4 note. Minni, probably the western portion of Armenia, as Ararat was that in the center and to the east. Armenia was at this time subject to Media. Ashchenaz was between the Euxine and the Caspian Seas. A captain - Some prefer the Septuagint rendering in Nah 3:17: “a mingled mass of people.” (Others, a “scribe,” an Assyrian term.) The rough caterpillers - i. e., locusts in their third stage, when their wings are still enveloped in rough horny cases, which stick up upon their backs. It is in this stage that they are so destructive.

This site's exposition

all their evil that they have done in Zion

on Jeremiah 51:24-29

The reckoning is stated as public and exact, in your sight, all their evil that they have done in Zion rendered back to them in the same measure. Babylon is called a destroying mountain that the Lord will roll down from the rocks and burn, no stone ever taken from her again for a corner or a foundation, a permanence the bench sets against the ordinary hope of rebuilding a ruin. The nations summoned to the siege are named as real peoples, Ararat, Minni and Ashchenaz, Armenia, Mannea and the Scythian tribes of the north, history's own armies called up for the Lord's purpose.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

4 ), especially rough caterpillars; let the kings and captains prepare nations against Babylon, for the service is great and there is occasion for many hands to be employed it.

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A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

As caterpillars - The Median horses are compared to their insects, either with respect to their numbers, or in regard of the terror caused by them when they came, being a great plague to the places which they infected.
Set ye up a standard in the land,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Minni--Lower or Lesser Armenia. RAWLINSON says that Van was the capital of Minni. It was conquered by Tettarrassa, the general of Tetembar II, the Assyrian king whose wars are recorded on the black obelisk now in the British Museum.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Set ye up a standard - Another summons to the Medes and Persians to attack Babylon. Ararat, Minni - The Greater and Lesser Armenia. And Ashchenaz - A part of Phrygia, near the Hellespont. So Bochart, Phaleg, lib. 1 c. 3, lib. 3 c. 9. Concerning Ashchenaz Homer seems to speak, Il. 2:370, 371: - Φορκυς αυ Φρυγας ηγε, και Ασκανιος θεοειδης, Τηλ’ εξ Ασκανιης. “Ascanius, godlike youth, and Phorcys led The Phrygians from Ascania’s distant land.” Calmet thinks that the Ascantes, who dwelt in the vicinity of the Tanais, are meant.

The words behind it

22 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.

  • שְׂאוּ־lift up

    seu-H5375 →656 times

  • נֵ֣סa standard

    nesH5251 →21 times

  • בָּאָ֗רֶץin the land

    baaretzH776 →2504 times

  • תִּקְע֨וּblow

    tikuH8628 →69 times

  • שׁוֹפָ֤רa trumpet

    shofarH7782 →72 times

  • בַּגּוֹיִם֙among the nations

    bagoyimH1471 →561 times

  • קַדְּשׁ֤וּconsecrate

    kadeshuH6942 →171 times

  • עָלֶ֙יהָ֙on it

    ʾaleihaH5921 →5755 times

  • גּוֹיִ֔םnations

    goyimH1471 →561 times

  • הַשְׁמִ֧יעוּsummon

    hashmiuH8085 →1159 times

  • עָלֶ֛יהָon it

    ʾaleihaH5921 →5755 times

  • מַמְלְכ֥וֹת[the] kingdoms of

    mamlekhotH4467 →117 times

  • אֲרָרַ֖טArarat

    ʾararatH780 →

  • מִנִּ֣יMinni

    miniH4508 →

  • וְאַשְׁכְּנָ֑זand Ashkenaz

    veashkenazH813 →

  • פִּקְד֤וּappoint

    pikduH6485 →303 times

  • עָלֶ֙יהָ֙on it

    ʾaleihaH5921 →5755 times

  • טִפְסָ֔רan official

    tifsarH2951 →

  • הַֽעֲלוּ־bring up

    haalu-H5927 →890 times

  • ס֖וּסhorse[s]

    susH5483 →140 times

  • כְּיֶ֥לֶקlike a locust

    keyelekH3218 →

  • סָמָֽר׃bristly

    samarH5569 →

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

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Genesis 10:3The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.6 works1 Chronicles 1:6The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.5 worksGenesis 8:4On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.5 worksIsaiah 37:38One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.5 worksJeremiah 4:6Raise a signal flag toward Zion. Seek refuge! Do not delay! For I am bringing disaster from the north, and terrible destruction.5 worksJeremiah 51:12Raise a banner against the walls of Babylon; post the guard; station the watchmen; prepare the ambush. For the LORD has both devised and accomplished what He spoke against the people of Babylon.4 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Jeremiah 25:14For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.’”4 worksJeremiah 50:2“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pieces.’4 worksJoel 1:4What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.4 worksJeremiah 51:14The LORD of Hosts has sworn by Himself: “Surely I will fill you up with men as with locusts, and they will shout in triumph over you.”3 worksIsaiah 13:2–5Raise a banner on a barren hilltop; call aloud to them. Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.3 worksIsaiah 18:3All you people of the world and dwellers of the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it; when a ram’s horn sounds, you will hear it.3 worksRevelation 9:7–11And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, with something like crowns of gold on their heads, and faces like the faces of men.3 worksJeremiah 50:41–42Behold, an army is coming from the north; a great nation and many kings are stirred up from the ends of the earth.3 worksNahum 3:17Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.3 works2 Kings 19:37One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.3 worksJoel 2:2–3a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.2 worksNahum 3:15–17There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down and consume you like a young locust. Make yourself many like the young locust; make yourself many like the swarming locust!2 works

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

    Jeremiah 25:14

    For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.’”

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 51:6

      Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.

    • Jeremiah 27:7

      All nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.

    • Jeremiah 50:9

      For behold, I stir up and bring against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the land of the north. They will line up against her; from the north she will be captured. Their…

    • Jeremiah 50:41

      Behold, an army is coming from the north; a great nation and many kings are stirred up from the ends of the earth.

    • Isaiah 14:2

      The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their…

  • Through

    Jeremiah 51:12

    Raise a banner against the walls of Babylon; post the guard; station the watchmen; prepare the ambush. For the LORD has both devised and accomplished what He spoke against the people of Babylon.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 13:2

      Raise a banner on a barren hilltop; call aloud to them. Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.

    • Jeremiah 51:11

      Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the vengeance of…

  • Through

    Genesis 8:4

    On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 37:38

      One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon…

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Prophet Jeremiah, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Jeremiah: the study guide →Read Jeremiah 51 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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