Jeremiah Chapter 25 verse 25 Holy Bible
and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;
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And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;
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and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;
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And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,
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and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;
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And all the kings of Zimri, And all the kings of Elam, And all the kings of Media,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 25. - Zimri. The Zimri were a people to the northeast of Assyria, against whom various Assyrian kings waged war (Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, 1878, pp. 13, 15, 34; 'Records of the Past,' 5:41). Whether they axe to be connected with the Zimran of Genesis 25:2 seems doubtful; their locality hardly suits. Elam. Elam, one of the most ancient monarchies in the world (comp. Genesis 14.), is again coupled with Media in Isaiah 21:2. It was a region on the east of the lower Tigris, bounded westward by Babylonia, northward by Assyria and Media, southward by the Persian Gulf. To say that it is put either here or anywhere else in the Old Testament for the whole of Persia seems a mistake, as the Persians were hardly known before the time of Cyrus.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(25) Zimri.--The name occurs nowhere else in the Bible or out of it as the name of a country. It is possibly connected with Zimran, the eldest son of Abraham by Keturah (Genesis 25:2), and points, therefore--as does its position here--to a nomad tribe in Arabia lying between the Red Sea, Arabia, and the Persian Gulf. The name Zabram occurs in Greek geographers as that of a city on the Red Sea west of Mecca, and there was a Zimara on the Upper Euphrates. "Elam," properly applied to the region of which Susa was the capital (Daniel 8:2), was extended by the Hebrew writers to the whole of Persia. (See Notes on Genesis 10:22; Genesis 14:1-12; Isaiah 21:2.) As in the last of these references, it is coupled here with Media.