Teks -- Jeremiah 25:25 (NET)

25:25 all the kings of Zimri; all the kings of Elam; all the kings of Media;

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Jer 25:25 - Zimri

Those descended from Zimran, Abraham's son by Keturah, Gen 25:2.

Wesley: Jer 25:25 - Elam

The Persians.

Wesley: Jer 25:25 - The Medes

The Medes came from Madai the son of Japhet.

JFB: Jer 25:25 - Zimri

Perhaps the Zabra mentioned by PTOLEMY between Mecca and Medina. Zimran also, as Dedan, was one of Abraham's sons by Keturah (Gen 25:2).

JFB: Jer 25:25 - Elam

Properly, west of Persia; but used for Persia in general.

Clarke: Jer 25:25 - Zimri

Zimri - Descendants of Abraham, by Keturah, Gen 25:2, Gen 25:6

Clarke: Jer 25:25 - Elam

Elam - Called Elymais by the Greeks, was on the south frontier of Media, to the north of Susiana, not far from Babylon.

Calvin: Jer 25:25 - NO PHRASE

He now mentions nations more remote, but whose fame was more known among the Jews. We, indeed, know that the Elamites, who dwelt between Media and Persia, had ever been people of great repute. As to Media, it was a very large kingdom and wealthy, abounding in all delicacies; and we also know how fond of display were the Medes. With regard to Zimri, ¹⁴⁴ it was an obscure nation in comparison with the Elamites and the Medes. The Prophet, however, intimates that every part of the earth, even the smallest kingdom, known to the Jews, would be visited by God’s judgment, so that the whole earth, in every direction, would become a witness that God sits in heaven as a judge. It follows, —

TSK: Jer 25:25 - Zimri // Elam // Medes

Zimri : Gen 25:2, Zimran

Elam : Jer 49:34-39; Gen 10:22, Gen 14:1; Isa 11:11, Isa 22:6; Eze 32:24; Dan 8:2

Medes : Jer 51:11, Jer 51:28; Isa 13:17; Dan 5:28

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Jer 25:25 - All the kings of Zimri

All the kings of Zimri those descended from Zimran, Abraham’ s son by Keturah, Gen 25:2 (the Zamarens, as some think, mentioned by Pliny). By the Elamites are meant the Persians, descended from Shem, Gen 10:22 . Elam is also mentioned Isa 22:6 . See also Jer 49:34 . The Medes came from Madai the son of Japheth, Gen 10:2 ; they are usually joined with the Persians, Dan 5:28 .

Haydock: Jer 25:25-26 - Zambri // Elam // North // Brother // Face // Sesac

Zambri, sprung from Cethura, and dwelling in Arabia, (Calmet) or Persia, (St. Jerome) where Pliny ([Natural History?] vi. 28.) places the Zamarenians. ---

Elam. Persians, (Haydock) by the sword of Alexander [the Great?], (St. Jerome) or Cyrus subdued those who were subject to the Medes, and united the two nations. ---

North. Armenia, &c., subdued by Cyrus and by Alexander. ---

Brother. When Cyrus stood up for the Persians. All shall drink, as at a feast, (Calmet) of this bitter wine. ---

Face, and forming the empire of Babylon. (Haydock) ---

Sesac. That is Babel, or Babylon; which after bringing all these people under her yoke, should quickly fall and be destroyed herself. (Challoner) ---

The Chaldeans are not expressed, to avoid their resentment. The sh in sheshac, is at the same distance from the end as b in Babel is from the beginning of the alphabet. See St. Jerome. (Haydock) (2 Timothy iv. 17.) ---

Yet they are not elsewhere spared, chap. xlix., &c. Sesac was probably the idol, "anais or the moon." (Calmet) ---

The Sacean feasts were very dissolute, like the saturnalia at Rome. (Dio. Chrys.[St. Chrysostom?] iv.; Strabo xi.) (Calmet) ---

Cyrus took Babylon after he had conquered the rest of Asia, and then seizing Nabonides at Borsippe, which was sacred to Anais, "the moon," (Calmet) or Diana, (Strabo xv.) suffered him to die in peace. (Berosus in Josephus, contra Apion 1.) ---

Thus fell the king of Sesac, an idol worshipped both at Borsippe and at Babylon.

Gill: Jer 25:25 - And all the kings of Zimri // and all the kings of Elam // and all the kings of the Medes

And all the kings of Zimri,.... Of Arabia Felix, so called from Zimran, a son of Abraham by Keturah, Gen 25:2; the same whom Pliny ⁿ calls Zamerenes;

and all the kings of Elam; or Persia; who are prophesied against in Jer 49:34;

and all the kings of the Medes; who commonly go together with the Persians.