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Jeremías 51:27

Alzad bandera en la tierra, tocad trompeta en las naciones, apercibid gentes contra ella; juntad contra ella los reinos de Ararat, de Minni, y de Aschênaz; señalad contra ella capitán, haced subir caballos como langostas erizadas.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ararat;   Armenia;   Ashkenaz;   Caterpillar;   Minni;   Persia;   Trumpet;   Thompson Chain Reference - Agriculture;   Agriculture-Horticulture;   Ararat, Mount;   Armenia;   Caterpillars;   Mountains;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies;   Horse, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ararat;   Ashkenaz;   Babylon;   Minni;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ararat;   Armenia;   Ashkenaz;   Caterpillar;   Minni;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ararat;   Ashkenaz;   Cyrus;   Locust;   Minni;   Nahum (2);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ararat;   Ashchenaz;   Caterpillar;   Gomer;   Insects;   Locust;   Marshal;   Minni;   Scythians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ararat;   Ashkenaz;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Marshal;   Minni;   Persia, Persians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Locust;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ararat ;   Ashkenaz, Ashchenaz ;   Cankerworm,;   Caterpiller;   Minni ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ararat;   Armenia;   Ashkenaz;   Babylon;   Cankerworm;   Smith Bible Dictionary - A'arat;   Arme'nia;   Ash'chenaz;   Min'ni;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Armies;   Canker-Worm;   Division of the Earth;   War;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Appoint;   Ararat;   Armenia;   Ashkenaz;   Captain;   Caterpillar;   Locust;   Marshal;   Medes;   Minni;   Tarpelites;   War;   Writing;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ararat;   Armenia;   Ashkenaz;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Adiabene;   Ararat;   Armenia;   Ashkenaz;   Captain;   Locust;   Shemoneh 'Esreh;  

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Levantad señal en la tierra, tocad trompeta entre las naciones. Reunid las naciones contra ella, convocad contra ella los reinos de Ararat, Mini y Asquenaz; nombrad contra ella capitán, haced subir caballos como langostas erizadas.
La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Alzad bandera en la tierra, tocad trompeta en las naciones, preparaos naciones contra ella; convocad contra ella a los reinos de Ararat, de Mini, y de Askenaz; sealad contra ella capitn, haced subir caballos como langostas erizadas.
Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Alzad bandera en la tierra, tocad trompeta entre los gentiles, apercibid naciones contra ella; juntad contra ella los reinos de Ararat, de Mini, y de Askenaz; sealad contra ella capitn, haced subir caballos como langostas erizadas.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ye up: Jeremiah 51:12, Jeremiah 6:1, Jeremiah 50:2, Jeremiah 50:41, Isaiah 13:2-5, Isaiah 18:3, Amos 3:6, Zechariah 14:2

prepare: Jeremiah 25:14

Ararat: Bochart reasonably concludes Ararat and Minni to be the greater and lesser Armenia; and Ashchenaz he thinks formed part of Phrygia near the Hellespont, part of that country being called Ascania by Homer. Cyrus had conquered Armenia, defeated Croesus king of Lydia - bc 548 and subdued several nations from the Egean sea to the Euphrates, before he marched against Babylon; and Xenophon also informs us that there were not only Armenians, but both Phrygians and Cappadocians in the army of Cyrus. Genesis 8:4

Ashchenaz: Genesis 10:3, Ashkenaz, 1 Chronicles 1:6

cause: Jeremiah 51:14, Jeremiah 46:23, Jeremiah 50:41, Jeremiah 50:42, Judges 6:5, Joel 2:2, Joel 2:3, Nahum 3:15-17, Revelation 9:7-11,After Cyrus had been the instrument in the hands of God of taking Babylon, he marched against Tomyris, queen of the Massagete, a Scythian nation, and was totally defeated - bc 530. The victorious queen, who had lost her son in a previous battle, was so incensed against Cyrus, that she cut off his head, and threw it into a vessel filled with human blood, exclaiming, "Sattia te sanguine, quem sitisti.

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 19:37 - Armenia Isaiah 5:26 - he will Isaiah 13:4 - noise Isaiah 13:5 - from a far Isaiah 13:17 - I will Isaiah 21:2 - Go up Isaiah 21:5 - arise Isaiah 21:9 - behold Isaiah 37:38 - Armenia Isaiah 41:25 - raised Jeremiah 4:6 - the standard Jeremiah 6:4 - Prepare Jeremiah 49:14 - Gather Jeremiah 50:3 - out of the Jeremiah 50:9 - I will raise Jeremiah 50:14 - in array Jeremiah 50:26 - against Jeremiah 51:2 - in the day Jeremiah 51:11 - the Lord hath Ezekiel 7:14 - have Ezekiel 26:11 - hoofs Ezekiel 33:3 - he blow Hosea 8:1 - the trumpet Joel 1:4 - the caterpillar Obadiah 1:1 - Arise Nahum 2:5 - recount Habakkuk 2:7 - they

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Set ye up a standard in the land,.... Not in Chaldea, but rather in any land; or in all the countries which belonged to Media and Persia; where Cyrus's standard is ordered to be set up, to gather soldiers together, and enlist in his service, in order to go with him in his expedition against Babylon:

blow the trumpet among the nations; for the same purpose, to call them to arms, to join the forces of Cyrus, and go with him into the land of Chaldea:

prepare the nations against her: animate them, stir up their spirits against her, and furnish them with armour to engage with her: or, "sanctify" x them; select a certain number out of them fit for such work:

call together the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; the two former are generally thought to intend Armenia the greater, and the lesser; and the latter Ascania, a country in Phrygia; and certain it is that Cyrus first conquered these countries, and had many Armenians, Phrygians, and Cappadocians, in his army he brought against Babylon, as Xenophon y relates. The Targum is, declare

"against her to the kingdoms of the land of Kardu, the army of Armenia and Hadeb,''

or Adiabene:

appoint a captain against her; over all these forces thus collected: Cyrus seems to be intended; unless the singular is put for the plural, and so intends a sufficient number of general officers of the army:

cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillars; or "locusts" z; which though generally smooth, yet some fire hairy and rough; to which the horses in Cyrus's army are compared, for their multitude, the shape of their heads, long manes, and manner of going, leaping, and prancing. So the Targum,

"they shall cause the horses to come up, leaping like the shining locust;''

that is of a yellow colour, and shines like gold. So the word the Targum here uses is used by Jonathan in Leviticus 13:32; of hair yellow as gold, and here to be understood of hairy locusts: and, as Aelianus a says, there were locusts of a golden colour in Arabia. And such may be meant here by the Chaldee paraphrase, which well expresses their motion by leaping; see Joel 2:5; and which agrees with that of horses. The word rendered "rough" has the signification of horror in it, such as makes the hair to stand upright; see Job 4:15; and so some b render it here. And Bochart c, from Alcamus, an Arabic writer, observes, that there is a sort of locusts which have two hairs upon their head, which are called their horn, which when erected may answer to this sense of the word; and he brings in the poet Claudian d, as describing the locust by the top of its head, as very horrible and terrible; and that some locusts? have hair upon their heads seems manifest from Revelation 9:8; though it may be, the reason why they are here represented as so dreadful and frightful may not be so much on account of their form, as for the terror they strike men with, when they come in great numbers, and make such terrible havoc of the fruits of the earth as they do; wherefore the above learned writer proposes to render the words, "as the horrible locusts" e.

x קדשו "sanctificate", Piscator, Schmidt. y Cyropaedia, l. 5. c. 15. l. 7. c. 21. z כילק "sicut bruchum", Montanus, Schmidt. a De Animal. l. 10. c. 13. b סמר "horripilantem", Montanus "qui horret", Piscator, Cocceius. c Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 4. c. 2. col. 456. d "Horret apex capitis, medio fera lumina surgunt Vertice", &c. Epigram. 13. e "Non tam [horrentem], quam [horrendum] sonat".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ararat, see the Genesis 8:4 note. Minni, probably the western portion of Armenia, as Ararat was that in the center and to the east. Armenia was at this time subject to Media. Ashchenaz was between the Euxine and the Caspian Seas.

A captain - Some prefer the Septuagint rendering in Nahum 3:17 : “a mingled mass of people.” (Others, a “scribe,” an Assyrian term.)

The rough caterpillers - i. e., locusts in their third stage, when their wings are still enveloped in rough horny cases, which stick up upon their backs. It is in this stage that they are so destructive.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 51:27. Set ye up a standard — Another summons to the Medes and Persians to attack Babylon.

Ararat, Minni — The Greater and Lesser Armenia.

And Ashchenaz — A part of Phrygia, near the Hellespont. So Bochart, Phaleg, lib. i. c. 3, lib. iii. c. 9. Concerning Ashchenaz Homer seems to speak, Il. ii. 370, 371: -

Φορκυς αυ Φρυγας ηγε, και Ασκανιος θεοειδης,

Τηλ' εξ Ασκανιης.

"Ascanius, godlike youth, and Phorcys led

The Phrygians from Ascania's distant land."


Calmet thinks that the Ascantes, who dwelt in the vicinity of the Tanais, are meant.


 
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