Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Jerusalem—put first: for "judgment begins at the house of God"; they being most guilty whose religious privileges are greatest (I Peter 4:17).
kings—Jehoiakim, Jeconiah, and Zedekiah.
as it is this day—The accomplishment of the curse had already begun under Jehoiakim. This clause, however, may have been inserted by Jeremiah at his final revision of his prophecies in Egypt.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 25:18:
Isaiah 34:5
Isaiah 51:23
Jeremiah 44:21
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