19 * Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his ſervants, and *c his princes, and all his people g. 46. gs The Egyptians being that people whom the Jews moſt truſted to tor hep, ar: named as the tirſt to whom the Prophet was ſenr with the Wine cup of God's Fury, to let the Jews know, that zf they truſted to them, their confidence was vain; for they ſhould themſelves be deſtroyed, which was fulfilled within the 12 year after the Death of Jofah, unto the time of Jehojakin, as appcars from 2 Rings 24. 5. For the King of Egypt: made Jekhoiakim King 2 Kings 23. 34. ;
20 And all the mingled people þ, and * all the * ch,p; Kingsof the land of Uz z, and all the kings of the land: 47. fy of che. Philiſtines k, and Aſbkelon, and Azzah, and __— and the remnant of Aſhdod 7. |
tis of no great moment to determine, whether Go
mingled People, here mentioned, intended the various N do = wards particularly expreſſed by their Names, or ſome people that were not native Egyptians, but lived mingled with them, or ſome other people of ſeveral Nations, who lived near Judea, or the 4ra- bians. i By the Kings of the Land of Uz it is moſt probably judged are to be underſtood thoſe Kings who ruled over that people who deſcended from Diſhan, Gen, 36. 28. and are judged to have inhabited ſome part of Arabia Petra, near to ldumga. k The Cities of the Philiſtines are reckoned afterward, 1 Azzah, Ekron, Aſhdod and 4ſbkelon, were four of them, the fifcrh which was Gath is not here named. V8d. 1 Sam. 6. 17. It had a King in former times to
ap,
their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and *
will make ic perpetual deſolations y-
x Seven Years 2ccounted from the time that the Jews were cartri ed away in the time of Jeconiah or Jekojakiv, 2 Kings 24.15, 16. 3 This was fulfilled by Darius the King of Perſia, Dan. 4. 31. of theſe 70 Nebuchadnezzar ;Reigned 36. 2 Kings 25. 27. Evil>Merodach 32. and Belſhs zzar at leaſt two, Dar. 8. 1. Tho' God, whoſe all the Creation is,:and who is the Lord of all the Hoſts of his Creatures, doth often make uſe of Heathens, 'and other wicked Men to puniſh his own People, yet he will at laſt puniſh them too, and ordinarily when he doth puniſh them, it is with a more ſevere, and-grievous deftruQion than that by which he puniſheth his People, 7a. 27. 7.
13 And I will bring upon that land z all my words that T have pronounced againſt it, ever all hat is writ- ten in this book, which Jeremiah hath propheſied a»
gainſt all the nations.
z The Land of the Babylonians and Chaldeans - . T4 For many nations and great kings ſhail * ſerve themſelves of them alſo ; and I will recompence them according to their deeds, and according to the works
of their own hands as
s G4 threatens the deſtruftion of that Monarchy by the Perſe. ans, according to the'Prophecy of this Prophet. and declarerhrhar their deſtruftion was of themſelves, God d1d but recompence une to them their own Deeds, and the Works of their hands. which is not to be reſtrain:d to their excefles in executing Divine Venge- ance, and the Cruelty they uſed to the /raelices,bur more generally interpreted of all their wicked Courſes.
15 © For thus faith the LORD God of Iſrael unto:
me, Take the wine-cup of this fury at my hands, and cauſe all the nations, to whom ſend thee, to drink itc. b God's Judgments are ofcen in Scriprure expreſſed under the notion of a Cup of hot and intoxicating Drink. and their Suffering is ſet out under the notion of drinking ſuch a Cup as Pſal. 75.8 Job, 21. 20. 1/a. 51. k7. Pal. 11. 6. and Go. 3. Lam: 4. 21. Ezek. 23, 32. 34, God made Jeremiah to ſee the appearance of ſuch a Cup in
16 And * they ſhalldrink and be moved,and be mad,
d Whether they will or no, they ſhall drink it, and be diſturbs |
17 Then tookI the Cup at the LORDfs hand, and lent me e.
e That is in the Viſion 3 for it cannot be thought that the Lord
ine in his Hand.
f "2 con uſually beginneth at the Houſe of God, 1 Per. 4.17.
more known them, and done them more good than other
Saracens did. Vid.Lev.19.27ewhere God forbad hisPeople that Faſhion.
ars came from Mad; the Son of Japhet, Ger. io, 2, they are uſual- ly joyned with the Perſians, Dan. 5. 28,
one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth c, and the king of Sheſhach ſhall drink after them 4.
whom David fled. 1 Sam. 21. lo, but before this time it was des ſtroyed, either by Pſammeticus Father to Pharaoh Necho, or by Tartan Captain General to Sargon King of 4ſſjria, of whem read 1ſa. 20, 1, that he took 4ſhdod, which may be the reaſon that here mention is made of no more than the remnant of Aſhaoa.
21 Edom m2, and Moab,and the children of Ammon ». m The Edomites were the Poſterity of Eſau the Son of. Iſaac, to whom God had given a Land which they inherited, and he would nor ſuffer the 1/raelttes to make their way through them by force, when they denyed them a paſſage through their Country ; now he threatens their Ruine, as alſo Chap. 49. 7. and Obadiah's Prophecy was againſt rhem, where their triumphing in the Captivity of the Jews,is mentioned as one thing that had provokedGod againſt thems 7 The Moadbites and Ammonites were deſcended from Lon Chap. 48, iS an entire prophecy againſt Moab, they had lived in leng Proſperi- ry as appears there, Yer. -12, fo had the Ammonites againſt whom alſo Jeremiah propheſied particularly, Chap. 49. 1. to the 7th.
22 And all the kings of * Tyrus o, and all the kings * \ ef Zidon p, and the kings of the || iſles which are by omg yond the * ſea g. Or, re«
o Tyrus was a ftreng City upon the Borders of the Tribe of 4jhey, gim by Joſh. 19. 29. 2 Sam. 24. 7.8 very rich City, and a Kingdom, with the ſeas the King of which ( who was Hyram ) Solomon in his time traded /'**: much, 2 Chron. 2+ 3. Iſaiah prophetied its Ruine, Iſa. 23, 1. So did ©P- Ezek. Chap. 27, 28, 29. it was deſtroyed by Nebuchaarezzar, Ezck. 29, 49: 23* 18. p Zidon was nigh to it, therefore we ſhall ordinarily find Tyre
and Zidon joyned together in Scripture, beth 1ſa/ah and Ezekiel, as
well as this Prophet propeſied their Ruine. q By the Iles beyond the
Sea, ſome underſtand Greece and Traly, others Rhodes, Cyprus and
Ereta, but others think Nebuchadnezzar never conquered theſe, and
rather underſtand thoſe parts of Syria that coaſted upon the Mids
land Sea. ”
23 Dedan, and Tema /, and Buz ?, and all | that + Heb: &