Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 46:12
The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, [and] they are fallen both together.
12. thy shame ] The LXX, “thy voice,” requires but a slight alteration of MT. and one which improves the parallelism.
the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty ] The heroes fighting on the Egyptian side tumble over one another in their blind flight. Cp. Lev 26:37.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The land – The earth; the world rings with the cry of grief.
Against the mighty – Against the mighty man, i. e., one mighty man against another. The champions hired to fight Egypts battle get in one anothers way, and so are slaughtered together.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 12. The nations have heard of thy shame] Of thy disgrace, by this prodigious slaughter of thy troops.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
The prophet keepeth to his old prophetic style, speaking of things that were to come to pass some years after as if they were already past, because of the certainty of them; in this sense he saith other nations had seen, because they should see, the shame and confusion of the Egyptians upon their overthrow, and the cry of their slain and wounded men would fill other lands. For the Egyptians should certainly be overthrown, either by the Chaldeans stumbling upon the Babylonians, or the Babylonians on them, or they (fleeing) for haste stumbling one upon another, so as both those that went before, and those who followed after, should both fall together.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
12. mighty . . . stumbled against .. . mighty . . . fallen both togetherTheir very multitudeshall prove an impediment in their confused flight, one treading onthe other.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The nations have heard of thy shame,…. Their shameful defeat and overthrow by the Chaldean army; so, after the manner of prophecy, the thing is related as done; the battle fought, and the victory obtained; and the rumour and fame of it spread among the nations, to the great mortification of this proud people:
and thy cry hath filled the land; the shrieks of the wounded; the cry of the pursued and taken; the lamentation of friends and relations for their dead; with one thing or another of this kind the whole land of Egypt was filled; yea, all the countries round about them, in confederacy with them, were filled with distress for the loss of their own; the calamity was large and spreading, and the rumour of it:
for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, [and] they are fallen both together; either the mighty Egyptians against the mighty Chaldeans; and though the latter were the conquerors, yet lost abundance of men; so that there were mighty ones fell on both sides: or rather, as Jarchi, Kimchi, and Abarbinel, the mighty Egyptians in their flight fell, and other mighty ones of them following, stumbled at them, and fell upon them, and so both became a prey to the pursuers; or in their flight the mighty Egyptians stumbled against their mighty auxiliaries before mentioned, Jer 46:9; and so both came into the hands of their enemies. The Targum is, both were slain.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
He concludes this prophecy by saying that the report of this slaughter would be everywhere known among all nations. Had the Egyptians sustained only a small loss, the thing might have been unknown, as when a small engagement takes place the report does not spread far and wide; but when by one battle a nation is so conquered that a remarkable change follows, the event then is proclaimed everywhere. The Prophet then intimates by these words, that the stroke of Egypt would not be common, as also he said before, because the report would fly through all nations.
Heard then have all nations of thy reproach, even that the Egyptians had, to their great disgrace, been conquered by the Chaldeans, and that they had not only been put to flight, but that the greatest part of them had been slain, so that the kingdom of Egypt had been nearly lost; that at least they had been reduced to such straits, that they lost their chief eries and a very wide country, even throughout Asia to the river Euphrates.
He says that the land was filled with their cry: by voice or cry he means lamentations. Then he adds, Because the valiant hath stumbled against the valiant This may be thus explained, “The valiant hath contended with the valiant;” but. that the Chaldean proved stronger than the Egyptian: but I prefer to apply this to the Egyptians; and this may be inferred from the end of the verse, where he says, that both fell. So the Prophet means that the multitude, in which the Egyptians gloried, would be a hindrance to them, as usually is the case, when the army is too crowded, for the larger and the more numerous the army is, the greater is the disorder and confusion. When an army is small, they can by degrees recede, or stand still, until they take flight in safety: but in a great multitude there is also great trepidation, and hence a great disorder and confusion. This then is what the Prophet points out, when he says, The valiant stumbled against the valiant, and they both fell together; that is, that while they were fighting, they would clash with one another, and produce such disorder, as to occasion the fall of both.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
Jer 46:12. Thy shame Thy disgrace.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Jer 46:12 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, [and] they are fallen both together.
Ver. 12. The nations have heard of thy shame. ] Of the shameful defeat given thee; so that thou who wast once a terror to them art now a scorn.
For the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
land = earth.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
heard: Eze 32:9-12, Nah 3:8-10
thy cry: Jer 14:2, Jer 48:34, Jer 49:21, Jer 51:54, 1Sa 5:12, Isa 15:5-8, Zep 1:10
stumbled: Jer 46:6, Isa 10:4, Isa 19:2
Reciprocal: Nah 2:5 – they shall stumble
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jer 46:12. Nations have heard Is a prediction that, the nations will learn of the defeat of Egypt when it takes place. Mighty man stumbled against the mighty denotes that all the strong men of Egypt, together with their allies on whom they will rely, shall be overthrown together by the Babylonians.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
The nations had heard of Egypt’s defeat and her cry as she sought to save herself.