One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
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Gill's Exposition
For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,.... "The Lord of hosts", the Lord God omnipotent, and can do all things; "the God of Israel", and therefore will plead their cause, and take…
Barnes' Notes
The royal palace was a strong fortification in the heart of the city. The messengers thus met one another. At one end - Rather, from all sides, entirely, completely.
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
post lit. runner. The word survives in this sense in modern English only in the expression post-haste. For the sense here cp.
"Your native town you entered like a post."
Coriolanus, Act v sc. 5.
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