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Yeremia 51:11

Lancipkanlah anak-anak panah, siapkanlah perisai-perisai! TUHAN telah membangkitkan semangat raja-raja Media, sebab rencana-Nya terhadap Babel ialah untuk memusnahkannya: itulah pembalasan TUHAN, pembalasan karena bait suci-Nya!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Persia;   The Topic Concordance - Judges;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Arrows;   Shields;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Media;   Persia;   Spirit;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Media;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Cyrus;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Humanity;   Medes, Media;   Vengeance;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Medes, Media;   Persia, Persians;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Armour;   Medes, Media ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Babylon;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Medes, Me'dia;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Bridle;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Division of the Earth;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gather;   Medes;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lancipkanlah anak-anak panah, siapkanlah perisai-perisai! TUHAN telah membangkitkan semangat raja-raja Media, sebab rencana-Nya terhadap Babel ialah untuk memusnahkannya: itulah pembalasan TUHAN, pembalasan karena bait suci-Nya!
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Asahkanlah anak panah, sediakanlah perisai dengan sepertinya! Bahwa Tuhan sudah menjagakan hati segala raja Medi, karena disengajakan-Nya Babil, hendak membinasakan dia, karena inilah tulah dari pada Tuhan dan tulah dari pada kaabah-Nya.

Contextual Overview

1 Thus hath the Lorde sayde: Behold, I wyll rayse vp a perilous wynde agaynst Babylon, & her citizens that beare euyl wyll against me. 2 I wyll sende also into Babylon fanners to fanne her out, and to destroy her lande: for in the day of her trouble they shalbe about her on euery syde. 3 Moreouer [the Lorde wyll say] vnto the the bowmen, & to them that aduaunce them selues in their armoure: Ye shall not spare her young men, kyll downe all her hoast. 4 Thus the slayne shall fall downe in the lande of the Chaldees, and the wounded in the streetes. 5 As for Israel and Iuda they shall not be forsaken of their God of the Lord of hoastes, yea for the holy one of Israels sake haue the Chaldees fylled their lande full of sinne. 6 Flee away from Babylon, euery man saue his lyfe, that ye be not rooted out with her wickednesse: for the tyme of the Lordes vengeaunce is come, yea he shall rewarde her agayne. 7 Babylon hath ben in the Lordes hande a golden cuppe, that maketh all landes drunken: of her wine haue all people drunken, therfore are they out of their wittes. 8 But sodaynly is Babylon fallen and destroyed: mourne for her, bryng plasters for her woundes, yf she may peraduenture be healed agayne. 9 We woulde haue made Babylon whole say they, but she is not recouered, therfore wyll we let her alone, and go euery man into his owne countrey: for her iudgement is come into heauen, and is gone vp to the cloudes. 10 The Lorde hath brought foorth our righteousnesse: and therfore come on, we wyll shewe in Sion the worke of the Lorde our God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Make: Jeremiah 46:4, Jeremiah 46:9, Jeremiah 50:9, Jeremiah 50:14, Jeremiah 50:25, Jeremiah 50:28, Jeremiah 50:29, Isaiah 21:5

bright: Heb. pure

the Lord hath: Jeremiah 51:27, Jeremiah 51:28, 1 Kings 11:14, 1 Kings 11:23, 1 Chronicles 5:26, 2 Chronicles 36:22, Ezra 1:1, Isaiah 10:26, Isaiah 13:17, Isaiah 13:18, Isaiah 21:2, Isaiah 41:25, Isaiah 45:1, Isaiah 45:5, Isaiah 46:11, Revelation 17:16, Revelation 17:17

the spirit: Of Cyaxares king of Media, called "Darius the Mede" in scripture; and of Cyrus his nephew, king of persia, presumptive heir of the throne of his uncle.

his device: Jeremiah 51:12, Jeremiah 51:29, Jeremiah 50:45

the vengeance: Jeremiah 51:24, Jeremiah 51:35, Jeremiah 50:15, Jeremiah 50:28, Psalms 74:3-11, Psalms 83:3-9, Habakkuk 2:17-20, Zechariah 12:2, Zechariah 12:3, Zechariah 14:2, Zechariah 14:12

Reciprocal: Esther 1:3 - of Persia Isaiah 13:4 - noise Isaiah 13:5 - from a far Isaiah 47:3 - I will take Jeremiah 18:11 - and devise Jeremiah 25:25 - Medes Jeremiah 46:3 - General Jeremiah 49:14 - Gather Jeremiah 50:3 - out of the Jeremiah 50:41 - General Jeremiah 51:6 - for this Jeremiah 51:48 - the spoilers Jeremiah 51:49 - As Babylon Jeremiah 51:53 - from Daniel 5:30 - General Daniel 8:3 - one Joel 3:5 - ye Nahum 2:1 - keep Habakkuk 2:7 - they Revelation 8:5 - and filled

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Make bright the arrows,.... Which were covered with rust; scour them of it; anoint them with oil, as armour were wont to be; make them neat, clean, and bright, that they may pierce the deeper; hence we read of a "polished shaft", or arrow, one made bright and pure,

Isaiah 49:2; agreeably to this some render the word "sharpen the arrows" k; so the Targum. The word has the signification of "choosing"; but, as Gussetius observes l, whether the direction be to choose the best arrows, or to scour clean and polish them, the end is the same; namely, to have such as are most fit for use. Joseph Kimchi derives the word from another, which signifies a feather; and so renders it, "feather the arrows" m; that they may fly the swifter. These and what follow are either the words of God, or of the prophet; or, as some think, of the Jews about to return to Judea, whose words are continued, exhorting the Medes and Persians to go on with the war against the Chaldeans; but they rather seem to be addressed to the Chaldeans themselves, putting them upon doing these things; and suggesting, that when they had done all they could, it would be to no purpose:

gather the shields; which lay scattered about and neglected in time of peace: or, "fill" them; fill the hands with them; or bring in a full or sufficient number; since there would be now occasion for them, to defend them against the enemy. The Targum, and several versions, render it, "fill the quivers" n; that is, with arrows; and so Jarchi: or, "fill the shields" o; that is, with oil; anoint them, as in

Isaiah 21:5;

the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; of Cyaxares, or Darius the Mede, and of Cyrus, who succeeded his uncle as king of Media; and indeed the army that came against Babylon was an army of Medes joined by the Persians, Cyrus being employed as general of it by his uncle. The Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, read it, "the spirit of the king of the Medes"; with which the following clause seems to agree:

for his device [is] against Babylon, to destroy it; the device of the king of the Medes, Darius; or rather the device of the Lord, who stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; put it into their hearts to fulfil his will; and gave them wisdom and skill, courage and resolution, to do it; and as he will to the kings of the earth against mystical Babylon, Revelation 17:16;

because it [is] the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple; his vengeance on Babylon, for the destruction of his temple, and the profanation of it; see Jeremiah 50:28.

k הברו החצים "acuite sagittas", V. L. Castalio; "exacuite", Montanus. l Ebr. Comment. p. 148. m "Ponite pennas in sagittis", so some in Vatablus. n מלאו השלטים πληρουτε τας φαρετρας, Sept. "implete pharetras", V. L. Castalio, So Syr. this version is prefered by Gussetius, Ebr. Comment. p. 860, 945. o "Implete scuta, scil. oleo", Stockius, p. 1098.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Make bright - Rather, Sharpen.

The Medes Genesis 10:2 were a branch of the great Aryan family, who as conquerors had seized upon the vast regions extending from the Caspian Sea to the eastern borders of Mesopotamia, but without being able to dispossess the Turanian tribes who had previously dwelt there. They were divided into numerous clans, each with its own local chief, the leaders of the larger sections being those who are here called kings.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 51:11. Make bright the arrows — This is the prophet's address to Babylon.

The Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes — Of Cyaxares king of Media, called Darius the Mede in Scripture; and of Cyrus king of Persia, presumptive heir of the throne of Cyaxares, his uncle. Cambyses, his father, sent him, Cyrus, with 30,000 men to assist his uncle Cyaxares, against Neriglissar king of Babylon, and by these was Babylon overthrown.


 
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