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Barnes' Notes on Jeremiah 50:3

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Albert Barnes (1798–1870) · 19th-century historical commentary
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Out of the north - Media lay to the northwest of Babylon. This constant use of the north, the quarter where the sun never shines, and therefore the region of darkness, is symbolic of the region from where danger ever comes. They shall remove ... - Translate it (as in Jeremiah 9:10): “from man even to cattle they are fled, they are gone.” return to 'Top of Page'
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