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The Winnowing Strangers
Scholars note a clever wordplay in the original Hebrew. The word for the invaders can mean both "strangers" and "winnowers." God is sending foreign enemies (the Medes and Persians) who will act like farmers winnowing grain—violently shaking and scattering the people of Babylon like worthless chaff in the wind, leaving the land empty.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 51:2
18th Century
Theologian
Fanners - Or, winnowers.
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 51:2
19th Century
Bishop
Fanners, that shall fan her. —The Hebrew word as it stands means “strangers,” but a change of the vowel-points would etym…
John Calvin
On Jeremiah 51:2
16th Century
Theologian
Here he explains himself more clearly, without the metaphor he had previously used. He no longer uses the likeness of wind when he declares that he…
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John Gill
On Jeremiah 51:2
17th Century
Pastor
And I will send unto Babylon farmers, that shall fan her, and
shall empty her land
Or…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 51:1–58
17th Century
Minister
The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same themes are left and then returned to. Babylon is abundant in treasures,…