Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.
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Gill's Exposition
And the land shall tremble and sorrow,.... The land of Chaldea, the inhabitants of it, should tremble, when they heard of this powerful army invading their land, and besieging their metropolis; and…
Barnes' Notes
Ararat, see the Gen 8:4 note. Minni, probably the western portion of Armenia, as Ararat was that in the center and to the east. Armenia was at this time subject to Media. Ashchenaz was between the…
The particulars of this copious prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to so often that it could not well be divided into parts, but we must endeavor to collect…
Cambridge Bible
Set ye up, etc.] Cp. Jer 51:51.
prepare For mg. sanctify(and so in Jer 51:51) see on Jer 6:4; Jer 22:7.
Ararat the Assyrian Urartu, N.W. of Lake Van, and corresponding pretty closely to the Armenia of…
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