And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
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Gill's Exposition
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me,.... Or "us" (w); everyone of us: these are the words of Zion and Jerusalem, as appears from Jer 51:35; complaining of the injuries done them by the…
Barnes' Notes
The passages are stopped - The ferries are seized, occupied. The historians state that when Cyrus captured the city his troops moved down the bed of the river and occupied all these ferries, finding…
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
passages mg. fords, but perhaps we should take it as meaning here ferriesover the Euphrates.
reeds mg. marshes, Heb. pools. The sense is either that the great reed beds which served as defences are…