Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jeremiah 25:20

COM commentary-section · status:draft · license:PD

20. mingled people —mercenary foreign troops serving under Pharaoh-hophra in the time of Jeremiah. The employment of these foreigners provoked the native Egyptians to overthrow him. Psammetichus, father of Pharaoh-necho, also had given a settlement in Egypt to Ionian and Carian adventurers [HERODOTUS, 2.152, 154]. (Compare Jeremiah 50:37 ; Isaiah 19:2 ; Isaiah 19:3 ; Isaiah 20:1 ; Ezekiel 30:5 ; see on Ezekiel 30:5- : ; Jeremiah 50:37 ; Isaiah 19:2 ; Isaiah 19:3 ; Isaiah 20:1 ; Ezekiel 30:5 . The term is first found in Ezekiel 30:5- : . Uz —in the geographical order here, between Egypt and the states along the Mediterranean; therefore not the "Uz" of Ezekiel 30:5- : (north of Arabia-Deserta), but the northern part of Arabia-Petræa, between the sea and Idumea ( Ezekiel 30:5- : ; see Genesis 36:20 ; Genesis 36:28 ). remnant of Ashdod —called a "remnant," because Ashdod had lost most of its inhabitants in the twenty-nine years siege by Psammetichus. Compare also see on Genesis 36:28- : . Gath is not mentioned because it was overthrown in the same war. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-21" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-jer-25-003

절 (explains)

bible-text/jer-25-20

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological