John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 51:43

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, etc.] Which some understand of Babylon itself, divided into two parts by the river Euphrates running in the midst of it, called by Berosusf1063 the inward and outward cities; though rather these design the rest of the cities in Chaldea, of which Babylon was the metropolis, the mother city, and the other her daughters, which should share the same fate with herself; be demolished, and the ground on which they stood become a dry, barren, uncultivated, and desert land: a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth [any] son of man pass thereby; having neither inhabitant nor traveller; see (<245012>Jeremiah 50:12,39).

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