Jeremiah 50:27 - Exposition

In this verse we are told that the kherem, i.e. the Divine ban, falls upon the entire male population, as in the holy wars of Joshua ( Joshua 6:21 ; Joshua 11:11 , Joshua 11:20 ). All her bullocks. As in Jeremiah 51:40 and Isaiah 34:6 , the doomed people is likened to sacrificial victims (comp. Jeremiah 46:10 ). The same fact is described without figure in Jeremiah 48:15 . Go down to the slaughter; i.e. be forced down to the slaughtering trough.