Deu 28:49, Job 39:27-30, Jer 16:16, Amo 9:1-4, Luk 17:37 | TSK | STEP | 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. as the eagle. a nation whose. understand. Heb. hear.

Deuteronomy 28:49

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.

Nu 24:24; Isa 5:26-30; Jer 5:15-17; Da 6:22,23; 9:26; Hab 1:6,7

Lu 19:43,44

as the eagle.

Jer 4:13; 48:40; 49:22; La 4:19; Eze 17:3,12; Ho 8:1; Mt 24:28

a nation whose.

Jer 5:15; Eze 3:6; 1Co 14:21

understand. Heb. hear.

Job 39:27-30

the eagle.

Ex 19:4; Le 11:13; Ps 103:5; Pr 23:5; Isa 40:31; Ho 8:1

at thy command. Heb. by thy mouth. make.

Jer 49:16; Ob 1:4

upon.

1Sa 14:4

she.

9:26

her.The eagle is proverbial for her strong and clear sight.

where.

Eze 39:17-19; Mt 24:28; Lu 17:37

Jeremiah 16:16

I will send.I will raise up enemies against them, some of whom shall destroy them by wiles, and others shall ruin them by violence. The Chaldeans shall make an entire conquest of the whole land, and strip it of its riches and inhabitants; and those who may escape one party shall fall into the hands of another.

25:9; Am 4:2; Hab 1:14,15

hunters.

Ge 10:9; 1Sa 24:11; 26:20; Mic 7:2

every mountain.

Isa 24:17,18; Am 5:19; 9:1-3; Lu 17:34-37; Re 6:15-17