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John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 51:47
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Therefore, behold, the days come that I will do judgment on the graven images of Babylon, etc.] Because of the connection of these words, some understand (<245146>Jeremiah 51:46) of the report of the deliverance of the Jews time after time; and yet nothing came of it, which disheartened them; and they were used more cruelly, and with greater violence, by the Chaldeans and their kings, one after another; and “therefore” the following things are said; but the particle may be rendered “moreover”f1070, as some observe; or “surely”, certainly, of a truth, as in (<240502>Jeremiah 5:2); the time is hastening on, the above things being done, when judgment shall be executed, not only upon Bel the chief idol, (<245144>Jeremiah 51:44); but upon all the idols of the Chaldeans; which should be broke to pieces, and stripped of everything about them that was valuable; the Medes and Persians having no regard to images in their worship; though Dr. Prideauxf1071 thinks that what is here said, and in (<245144>Jeremiah 51:44); were fulfilled by Xerxes, when he destroyed and pillaged the Babylonian temples: and her whole land shall be confounded; the inhabitants of it, when they see their images destroyed, in which they trusted for their safety: and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her; in the midst of Babylon; where the king and his army were shut up, and dared not move out; and where they were slain when the army of Cyrus entered.
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