Scofield Reference Bible Notes
Jeremiah 25

Jer 25:1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;

in the fourth year of Jehoiakim

Jer 36:1.

Jer 25:5 They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:

from his evil way

Jer 18:11; 35:15; 2Ki 17:13; Jon 3:8.

Jer 25:7 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.

provoke me to anger

Jer 7:19; 32:30; Deu 32:21.

Jer 25:9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

my servant

Jer 27:6; 43:10; Isa 44:28; 45:1.

Jer 25:11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

seventy years

Cf. Lev 26:33-35; 2Ch 36:21; Dan 9:2. The 70 years may be reckoned to begin with the first deportation of Judah to Babylon (2Ki 24:10-15), B.C. 604 according to the Assyrian Eponym Canon, or B.C. 606 according to Ussher; or from the final deportation (2Ki 25; 2Ch 36:17-20; Jer 39:8-10), B.C. 586 (Assyr. Ep. Canon), or B.C. 588 (Ussher). In the first case the 70 years extend to the decree of Cyrus for the return (Ezra 1:1-3), B.C. 534 (Assyr. Ep. Canon), or B.C. 536 (Ussher). In the second case the 70 years terminate B.C. 516 (Assyr.Ep. Canon) with the completion of the temple. The latter is more probable reckoning in the light of Dan 9:25.

Jer 25:12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.

the land of the Chaldeans

Isa 13:19; 14:23; 21:1; 47:1; Jer 50:3, 13, 23, 39, 40, 45; 51:25, 26.

Jer 25:15 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.

the wine cup of this fury

Job 21:20; Psa 75:8; Isa 51:17; Rev 14:10.

Jer 25:16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.

they shall drink

Jer 51:7; Eze 23:34; Nah 3:11.

Jer 25:22 And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the isles which are beyond the sea,

isles

i.e. coasts.

Jer 25:26 And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.

Sheshach

A name for Babylon. Jer 51:41.

Jer 25:29 For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.

I will call

Day (of Jehovah). Jer 25:29-38; Eze 30:3. (Isa 2:10-22; Rev 19:11-21).

for a sword

Armageddon (battle of). Jer 25:29-33; Eze 38; Eze 39:1-16. (Rev 16:14; 19:21.)

upon all the inhabitants of the earth

The scope of this great prophecy cannot be limited to the invasion of Nebuchadnezzar. If Jehovah does not spare His own city, should the Gentile nations imagine that there is no judgment for them? The prophecy leaps to the very end of this age. (See "Day of the Lord," Isa 2:10-22; Rev 19:11-21; "Armageddon," Rev 16:14; 19:11-21).

Jer 25:30 Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.

he shall mightily roar

Isa 42:13; Joe 3:16; Amo 1:2.

Jer 25:31 A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.

controversy with the nations

Hos 4:1; Mic 6:2.

plead with all flesh

Isa 66:16; Joe 3:2.

Jer 25:33 And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.

the slain of the LORD

Isa 66:16.