John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 51:37

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Babylon shall become heaps, etc.] The houses should be demolished, and the stones lie in heaps one upon another, and become mere rubbish: a dwelling place for dragons; and other wild and savage creatures. Dragons, as Aelianusf1058 observes, love to live in desert places, and such now Babylon is; it lies in ruins; and even its palace is so full of scorpions and serpents, as Benjamin of Tudelaf1059 says it was in his time, that men durst not enter into it; (see <245039>Jeremiah 50:39 <231321>Isaiah 13:21,22); an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant; an astonishment to neighbouring nations, and to all that pass by; who shall hiss at the destruction of it, and rejoice, there being not so much as a single inhabitant in it; which is its case to this day; (see <245013>Jeremiah 50:13,39).

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