Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
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Gill's Exposition
Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation,.... The Modes and Persians, whose country lay north of Babylon: See Gill on Jer 50:9;
and many kings shall be raised up from the…
An application to Babylon of the doom against Jerusalem Jer 6:22-24. Jer 50:41 The coasts of the earth - See the Jer 6:22 note.
We have in these verses,
I. Israel's sufferings, and their deliverance out of those sufferings. God takes notice of the bondage of his people in Babylon, as he did of their bondage in Egypt; he has…
A repetition, with the necessary changes, of Jer 6:22-24, where Jerusalem is the object of the threat. See notes there.
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