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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 51:2 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Jer 51:2 |
Strong Concordance |
And will send [07971] unto Babylon [0894] fanners [02114], that shall fan [02219] her, and shall empty [01238] her land [0776]: for in the day [03117] of trouble [07451] they shall be against her round about [05439]. |
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King James |
And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
fanners--(See on Jer 15:7). The farmers separate the wheat from the chaff; so God's judgments shall sweep away guilty Babylon as chaff (Psa 1:4). |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Fanners - Or, winnowers. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
And will send - fanners - When the corn is trodden out with the feet of cattle, or crushed out with a heavy wheel armed with iron, with a shovel they throw it up against the wind, that the chaff and broken straw may be separated from it. This is the image used by the prophet; these people shall be trodden, crushed, and fanned by their enemies. |
4 The ungodly [07563] are not so: but are like the chaff [04671] which the wind [07307] driveth away [05086].
7 And I will fan [02219] them with a fan [04214] in the gates [08179] of the land [0776]; I will bereave [07921] them of children, I will destroy [06] my people [05971], since they return [07725] not from their ways [01870].