Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on Deuteronomy 28:49

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bring a nation: Though the Chaldeans are frequently described under the figure of an eagle, yet these verses especially predict the desolations brought on the Jews by the Romans; who came from a country far more distant than Chaldea; whose conquests were as rapid as the eagle's flight, and whose standard bore this very figure; who spake a language to which the Jews were then entire strangers, being wholly unlike the Hebrew, of which the Chaldee was merely a dialect; whose appearance and victories were terrible; and whose yoke was a yoke of iron; and the havoc which they made tremendous. Num 24:24; Isa 5:26-30; Jer 5:15-17; Dan 6:22, Dan 6:23, Dan 9:26; Hab 1:6, Hab 1:7; Luk 19:43, Luk 19:44 as the eagle: Jer 4:13, Jer 48:40, Jer 49:22; Lam 4:19; Eze 17:3, Eze 17:12; Hos 8:1; Mat 24:28 a nation whose: Jer 5:15; Eze 3:6; Co1 14:21 understand: Heb. hear Deuteronomy 28:50

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