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When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says Yahweh.
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A Historically Verified Prophecy
Commentators unanimously highlight how this prophecy was precisely fulfilled. Historical sources, including the book of Daniel and secular historians like Herodotus and Xenophon, record that Babylon fell to its enemies while its leaders were in a drunken feast. As John Calvin notes, this specific fulfillment was intended to confirm for future generations that Jeremiah spoke by the Spirit of God.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
In their heat ... - While, like so many young lions, they are in the full glow of excitement over their prey, God prepares for them a drin…
19th Century
Anglican
In their heat I will make their feasts ... —The words are stern and bitter in their irony. When the revelers are hot with…
16th Century
Protestant
Here, he also describes the manner in which Babylon was taken. From this we learn that the Prophet did not speak obscurely or ambiguously, but show…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
In their heat I will make their feasts I will order it that their feasts shall be in the time of heat, that so they may be made dru…
The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same themes are left and then returned to. Babylon is abundant in treasures,…
