Jeremiah 50:27
Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
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Gill's Exposition
Slay all her bullocks,.... Or, "all her mighty ones", as the Targum and Vulgate Latin version; her princes and great men, as Jarchi, Kimchi, and Abarbinel; compared to bullocks for their strength,…
Here, 1. The forces are mustered and commissioned to destroy Babylon, and every thing is got ready for a descent upon that potent kingdom: Go up against that land by Merathaim, the country of the…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
her bullocks her choice youths, the flower of her army. Cp. for the figure Isa 34:7. For the expression "go down to the slaughter" cp. Jer 48:15, and for "the time of their visitation" Jer 46:21.
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