John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 51:57

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And I will make drunk her princes, etc.] With the wine of divine wrath; that is, slay them; though there may be an allusion to their being drunk with wine at the feast Belshazzar made for his thousand lords; who are the princes here intended, together with the king and his royal family, (<270501>Daniel 5:1,4); and her wise [men], her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: the counsellors of state, priests, magicians, and astrologers; officers in the army, superior and inferior ones; and the soldiers and warriors, whom Cyrus and his men slew; when they entered the city; compare with this (<661918>Revelation 19:18); and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not awake; be all asleep in their drunken fits, and be slain therein; and so never wake, or live more. The Targum is, “and they shall die the second death, and not come into the world to come;” (see Gill on “<245139>Jeremiah 51:39”); saith the king, whose name [is] the Lord of hosts; the King of kings and Lord of lords; the Lord of armies in heaven and earth; and can do, and does, what he pleases in both worlds.

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