Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
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Gill's Exposition
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them,.... The Babylonians; this explains who are meant by the sanctified and mighty ones, Isa 13:3 the Medes were a people that descended from Medai, one of…
Barnes' Notes
Behold, I will stir up - I will cause them to engage in this enterprise. This is an instance of the control which God claims over the nations, and of his power to excite and direct them as he pleases.…
We have here a very elegant and lively description of the terrible confusion and desolation which should be made in Babylon by the descent which the Medes and Persians should make upon it. Those that…
The description of the character of the invaders, perhaps even the mention of their name, is of the nature of a climax to the terrors of the picture.
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