1-12 Jeremiah prophesies the overthrow of Pharaoh's army at Euphrates 13-26 and the conquest of Egypt by Nebuchadrezzar 27,28 He comforts Jacob in his chastisement

The word This is a general title to the prophecies contained in this and the following chapters, concerning different nations which had less or more connection with the Jews, either as enemies, neighbours, or allies. They were not delivered at the same time: to some the date is annexed; in others it is left uncertain.

against Jer 1:10 4:7 25:15-29 Ge 10:5 Nu 23:9 Zec 2:8 Ro 3:29

2 Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.

Against Egypt Jer 46:14 25:9,19 Eze 29:1-32:32

Pharaoh-necho 2Ki 23:29

Pharaoh-necho 2Ch 35:20

Carchemish Isa 10:9

in the Jer 25:1 36:1

3 Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

This is a poetical and ironical call to the Egyptians to muster their forces; and implies that all their courage and efforts would be vain. Jer 51:11,12 Isa 8:9,10 21:5 Joe 3:9 Na 2:1 3:14

4 Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.

furbish Eze 21:9-11,28

brigandines Jer 51:3

5 Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.

and their Re 6:15

beaten down [heb] fled a flight Jer 46:15 Ge 19:17 2Ki 7:6,7 Na 2:8

fear Jer 6:25 20:3,4,10 49:29 Isa 19:16 Eze 32:10 Re 6:15-17

6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.

not Jud 4:15-21 Ps 33:16,17 147:10,11 Ec 9:11 Isa 30:16,17 Am 2:14,15 9:1-3

stumble Jer 46:12 20:11 50:32 Ps 27:2 Isa 8:15 Da 11:19,22

toward Jer 46:10 1:14 4:6 6:1 25:9

7 Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?

Who So 3:6 8:5 Isa 63:1

as a flood Jer 47:2 Isa 8:7,8 Da 9:26 11:22 Am 8:8 Re 12:15

8 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.

riseth Eze 29:3 32:2

I will go Ex 15:9,10 Isa 10:13-16 37:24-26

9 Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.

rage Na 2:3,4

Ethiopians [heb] Cush and Put Ge 10:6

Phut 1Co 1:8 Eze 27:10 Na 3:9

Lubim Ac 2:10

Lydians Ge 10:13 1Ch 1:11

Ludim Isa 66:19 Eze 27:10

Lud Jer 30:5

10 For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

the day Jer 51:6 Isa 13:6 34:6,8 61:2 63:4 Joe 1:15 2:1 Zep 1:14,15 Lu 21:22

the sword De 32:42 Isa 34:5-8 Eze 39:17-21 Zep 1:7,8 Re 19:17-21

the north Jer 46:2,6 2Ki 24:7

11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.

Gilead Jer 8:22 51:8 Ge 37:25 43:11 Eze 27:17

O virgin Jer 14:17 Isa 47:1

in vain Jer 30:12-15 Eze 30:21-25 Mic 1:9 Na 3:19 Mt 5:26 Lu 8:43,44

thou shalt not be cured [heb] no cure shall be into thee

12 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.

heard Eze 32:9-12 Na 3:8-10

thy cry Jer 14:2 48:34 49:21 51:54 1Sa 5:12 Isa 15:5-8 Zep 1:10

stumbled Jer 46:6 Isa 10:4 19:2

13 The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.

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Nebuchadrezzar Jer 43:10-13 44:30 Isa 19:1-25 29:1-32:20

14 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee.

Migdol Jer 43:9 44:1 Ex 14:2 Eze 30:16-18

Stand Jer 46:3,4 6:1-5 Joe 3:9-12

the sword Jer 46:10 2:30 12:12 2Sa 2:26 Isa 1:20 31:8 34:6 Na 2:13

15 Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.

thy Jer 46:5,21 Jud 5:20,21 Isa 66:15,16

the Lord Ex 6:1 De 11:23 Ps 18:14,39 44:2 68:2 114:2-7

16 He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.

made many to fall [heb] multiplied the faller
one Le 26:36,37

they said Jer 46:21 51:9

17 They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.

Pharaoh Ex 15:9 1Ki 20:10,18 Isa 19:11-16 31:3 37:27-29 Eze 29:3 31:18

18 As I live, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.

saith Jer 10:10 44:26 48:15 51:17 Isa 47:4 48:2 Mal 1:14 Mt 5:35 1Ti 1:17

Tabor Jos 19:22 Jud 4:6 Ps 89:12

Carmel 1Ki 18:42,43

19 O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.

thou Jer 48:18

furnish thyself to go into captivity [heb] make thee instruments of captivity. Isa 20:4 Eze 12:3,4-12

Noph Noph of Moph, is the celebrated city of Memphis, and the Chaldee and LXX render; long the residence of the ancient Egyptian kings, and situated fifteen miles above where the delta begins, on the western side of the Nile. It was in the neighbourhood of Memphis that the famous pyramids were erected, whose grandeur and beauty still astonish the modern traveller: they are about twenty in number; the largest of which is 481 feet perpendicular height, and the area of its basis is on 480,249 square feet, or something more than eleven acres, being exactly the size of Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. The immense ruins between the northern and southern pyramids, and about fourteen miles from Cairo, still called Memf, Menf, or Menouf, seem to mark the site of this city. Jer 44:1 Eze 30:13

waste Jer 26:9 34:22 51:29,30 Zep 2:5

20 Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.

a very Jer 50:11 Ho 10:11

it cometh Jer 46:6,10 1:14 25:9 47:2

21 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.

her hired Jer 46:9,16 2Sa 10:6 2Ki 7:6 Eze 27:10,11 30:4-6

like Jer 50:11,27 Isa 34:7

fatted bullocks [heb] bullocks of the stall Pr 15:17 Am 6:4

they did Jer 46:5,15,16

the day Jer 18:17 De 32:15 Ps 37:13 Isa 10:3 Eze 35:5 Ho 9:7 Ob 1:13 Mic 7:4

22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

voice Isa 29:4 Mic 1:8 7:16

and come Jer 51:20-23 Isa 10:15,33,34 14:8 37:24 Zec 11:2

23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.

cut Isa 10:18 Eze 20:46

because Jud 6:5 7:12 Joe 2:25 Re 9:2-10

24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

daughter Jer 46:11,19 Ps 137:8

she shall Jer 46:20 1:15 Eze 29:1-32:20

25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him:

multitude. or, nourisher [heb] Amon
No Eze 30:14 Na 3:8

with their Jer 43:12,13 Ex 12:12 Isa 19:1 Eze 30:13 Zep 2:11

and their Eze 32:9-12 Na 3:9

and all Jer 17:5,6 42:14-16 Isa 20:5,6 30:2,3 31:1-3 Eze 39:6,7

26 And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD.

I will Jer 44:30 Eze 32:11

and afterward Jer 48:47 49:39 Eze 29:8-14

27 But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.

fear Jer 30:10,11 Isa 41:13,14 43:1,5 44:2

I will save Jer 23:3,4 29:14 31:8-11 32:37 Isa 11:11 Eze 34:10-14 36:24 37:21,22 39:25 Am 9:14 Mic 7:11-16

and be Jer 23:6 33:16 50:19 Eze 34:25,26

28 Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.

for I am Jer 1:19 15:20 30:11 Jos 1:5,9 Ps 46:7,11 Isa 8:9,10 41:10 43:2 Mt 1:23 28:20 Ac 18:10 2Ti 4:17

make Jer 25:9 Isa 45:23 Da 2:35

but I will not Jer 4:27 5:10,18 30:11 32:42-44 33:24-26 Am 9:8,9 Ro 11:15-17

correct Jer 10:24 Hab 3:2 1Co 11:32

will I Isa 27:7,9 Heb 12:5-10 Re 3:19

not leave thee wholly unpunished. or, not utterly cut thee off.