Jeremiah 51:41
How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness,.... Which some understand of Babylon itself, divided into two parts by the river Euphrates running in the midst of it, called by Berosus (f)…
Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Barnes' Notes
Sheshach - Babylon: see the Jer 51:1 note. Surprised - i. e., seized, captured.
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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Sheshach i.e. Babylon. See on Jer 25:26.
a desolation mg. an astonishment. Cp. Jer 51:51.
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