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John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 50:15
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Shout against her round about, etc.] As soldiers do when they make an assault upon a place, to encourage one another, and dismay the besieged; just as the Israelites did when they surrounded Jericho: she hath given her hand; submitted to the conqueror, and sued for mercy. The Targum is, “she is delivered into her hand;” the hand of the Persians, by two princes of Babylon, who went off to Cyrus, and showed him how to take the city; or rather it was delivered by Zopyrus into the hands of Darius: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down; not at the taking of it by Cyrus, but afterwards by Darius; for this respects the conclusion of its destruction, which was progressive and gradual: for it [is] the vengeance of the Lord: which he decreed, threatened, and took, and that on account of his people, who had been ill treated here; so the Targum, “for it is the vengeance of the people of the Lord:” and her enemies are called upon to take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her; that is, to execute the Lord’s vengeance, of which the Persians were the instruments; and who were to go according to the law of retaliation, which is a just one; to do to Babylon as she had done to Jerusalem, and other places, she had utterly destroyed. These words seem to be referred to, and much the same are used of mystical Babylon, (<661806>Revelation 18:6).
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