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.
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Gill's Exposition
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,
saith the Lord,.... The Targum is, the kingdoms of the north, the same with those in Jer 1:15; even all those kingdoms which were subject…
Barnes' Notes
The term families is probably used here to signify the widespread empire of Nebuchadnezzar. My servant - This title, so remarkable in the Old Testament as the especial epithet, first of Moses, and…
Here is the sentence grounded upon the foregoing charge: "Because you have not heard my words, I must take another course with you," Jer 25:8. Note, When men will not regard the judgments of God's…
Cambridge Bible
the families of the north See ch. Jer 1:14 f.
families For the wide use of this word see on Jer 3:14, and cp. Jer 8:3.
utterly destroy lit. as mg. devote, i.e. place them under a ban. LXX, reading…
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