Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
Jeremiah 25 belongs to the prophecies given very soon after the Babylonian captivity began. Those prophecies plainly foretell seventy years of Jerusalem lying desolate and give a sure promise of Israel's return to their land. Written in books, they were prayerfully studied by Daniel in the first year of Darius the Mede, more than sixty years after they were written, together with the letters and records of chapters 27 through 31. At that time Daniel was perplexed over how the seventy years of captivity related to the twenty-three hundred years to pass before the cleansing of God's sanctuary.
The verse names Pharaoh king of Egypt with his servants, his princes, and all his people as partakers of the cup containing the wine of God's wrath. Jerusalem and the cities and kings of Judah drink this cup of woe first, then Egypt and many other nations of the earth drink the same cup until God's purpose is fulfilled. The cup pictures a nation's fate as draining divine wrath to the dregs and makes clear the sentence of doom, whose awful meaning the multitudes who heard could scarcely understand.
Jeremiah 25 belongs to the prophecies given very soon after the Babylonian captivity began. Those prophecies plainly foretell seventy years of Jerusalem lying desolate and give a sure promise of Israel's return to their land. Written in books, they were prayerfully studied by Daniel in the first year of Darius the Mede, more than sixty years after they were written, together with the letters and records of chapters 27 through 31. At that time Daniel was perplexed over how the seventy years of captivity related to the twenty-three hundred years to pass before the cleansing of God's sanctuary.
The verse names Pharaoh king of Egypt with his servants, his princes, and all his people as partakers of the cup containing the wine of God's wrath. Jerusalem and the cities and kings of Judah drink this cup of woe first, then Egypt and many other nations of the earth drink the same cup until God's purpose is fulfilled. The cup pictures a nation's fate as draining divine wrath to the dregs and makes clear the sentence of doom, whose awful meaning the multitudes who heard could scarcely understand.