Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 51:4
Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and [they that are] thrust through in her streets.
Translate it: And they, i. e., the young men who form her host Jer 51:3, shall fall slain in the land of the Chaldaeans, and pierced through in her streets, i. e., the streets of Babylon.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Thus all of them shall be destroyed, some in the fields, some in the streets of their cities.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
4. (See on Jer49:26; Jer 50:30; Jer50:37).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans,…. By the sword, or by the arrows and darts of the Medes and Persians:
and [they that are] thrust through in her streets; either by the one or by the other, especially the latter, since they only are mentioned;
[See comments on Jer 50:30].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
HE proceeds with what we began yesterday to explain, — that the time was nigh when God would take vengeance on the Babylonians. As, then, this could not be without great destruction in a city so very populous, and as it could not be overthrown except calamity extended itself through the whole country, hence, he says, that though Babylon should prepare great and powerful armies, it would yet be in vain, because they shall fall, he says, wounded everywhere in the land; and then he adds, and pierced through in her streets By these words he means, that the Chaldeans would be slain not only in the open fields, but also in the midst of the city. he afterwards adds, —
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
Jer 51:4. Thus the slain shall fall Let the wounded fall in the land of the Chaldeans. Houbigant. Dr. Kennicott would render it, Thus the soldiers shall fall; which seems to agree well with the 13th verse of the preceding chapter.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Jer 51:4 Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and [they that are] thrust through in her streets.
Ver. 4. Thus the slain shall fall. ] Both within the walls and without, , there shall be neither measure nor end of manslaughter, as Plutarch saith of Rome in Sulla’s time.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
thrust: Jer 49:26, Jer 50:30, Jer 50:37, Isa 13:15, Isa 14:19
Reciprocal: Isa 14:22 – I will Isa 21:2 – all the Isa 47:3 – I will take Jer 12:3 – pull Jer 37:10 – wounded men
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jer 51:4. This is a more direct prediction that the Chaldeans were to be slain in t.heir own land. The streets of their cities were to be strewn with dead bodies.