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John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 50:26
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Come against her from the utmost border, etc.] Or, “from the end”f986; from the end of the earth; from the Persian gulf, and the Caspian sea, on which the Persians and Medes bordered; from the most distant countries; for the Medes and Persians, who are here called unto, brought others along with them in their army from places still more remote; for this is not to be understood, with the Targum, of entering into Babylon on one “side”; or, with Jarchi, of beginning at one “end” of the city, that it might not be known, and be taken suddenly: open her storehouses; where her gold, silver, jewels, and other precious things, lay: or, her barns or “granaries”f987, as the Targum and Kimchi; where the fruits and increase of the earth were laid up; and may figuratively design her cities and fortified places, full of inhabitants, as well as of riches and stores of all kinds: cast her up as heaps; as heaps of rubbish to make a causeway of, and then tread upon them to make it smooth: or, “as heaps”, or “sheaves”f988 of corn; tread upon them as oxen do, and thereby thresh them out; so Jarchi interprets it, “thresh her as grains of wheat;” and to this sense the Targum refers, “consume her substance as they consume heaps of wheat;” (see <661812>Revelation 18:12-14); and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left; of the city of Babylon, its inhabitants, wealth, and riches; so complete should the destruction be, (<661808>Revelation 18:8,21-23).
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