John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 51:42

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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The sea is come up upon Babylon, etc.] A vast army, comparable to the great sea for the multitude thereof, even the army of the Medes and Persians under Cyrus; so the Targum, “a king with his armies, which are numerous like the waters of the sea, is come up against Babylon:” she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof; being surrounded, besieged, surprised, and seized upon by the multitude of soldiers in that army, which poured in upon it unawares. Some think here is a beautiful antithesis, between the inundation of Cyrus’s army and the draining of the river Euphrates, by which means he poured in his forces into Babylon.

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