Deu 28:49-52, 2Ki 24:1-2, Jer 25:9-11, Hab 1:6 | 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 28:49-52

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.

of fierce countenance. Heb. strong of face.

Pr 7:13; Ec 8:1; *margins

Da 7:7; 8:23

shall not.

2Ch 36:17; Isa 47:6; Ho 13:16; Lu 19:44; 21:23,24

the fruit.

33; Isa 1:7; 62:8

which also.

Le 26:26; Jer 15:13; 17:3; Eze 12:19; Hab 3:16,17

Le 26:25; 2Ki 17:1-6; 18:13; 24:10,11; 25:1-4; Isa 1:7; 62:8

Jer 21:4-7; 37:8; 39:1-3; 52:4-7; Eze 4:1-8; Da 9:26; Zec 12:2; 14:2

Mt 22:7; 24:15,16; Lu 19:43,44; 21:20-24

2 Kings 24:1-2

1 Jehoiakim, first subdued by Nebuchadnezzar, then rebelling against him, procures his own ruin.

5 Jehoiachin succeeds him.

7 The king of Egypt is vanquished by the king of Babylon.

8 Jehoiachin's evil reign.

10 Jerusalem is taken and carried captive into Babylon.

17 Zedekiah is made king, and reigns ill, unto the utter destruction of Judah.

his days.

17:5; 2Ch 36:6-21; Jer 25:1,9; 46:2; Da 1:1

Nebuchadnezzar.This prince, so famous in the writings of the prophets, was the son of Nabopollasar king of Babylon.

the Lord.

6:23; 13:20,21; De 28:49,50; 2Ch 33:11; Job 1:17; Isa 7:17; 13:5

Jer 35:11; Eze 19:8

according.

20:17; 21:12-14; 23:27; Isa 6:11,12; Jer 25:9; 26:6,20; 32:28

Mic 3:12

his. Heb. the hand of his.

Jeremiah 25:9-11

1:15; 5:15,16; 6:1,22-26; 8:16; Le 26:25-46; De 28:45-50; Pr 21:1

Isa 5:26-30; 10:5; 39:7; Hab 1:6-10

Nebuchadrezzar.

27:6; 40:2; 43:10; Isa 13:3; 44:28; 45:1; Eze 29:18-20

against.

17-26; 27:3-8; Eze 26:7; 29:19; 30:10,11

an astonishment. See on ch.

18:16; 24:9; 1Ki 9:7,8

take from. Heb. cause to perish from.

Es 3:13; 7:4; 8:11

voice of mirth.

7:34; 16:9; 33:10,11; Isa 24:7-12; Eze 26:13; Ho 2:11; Re 18:22,23

the sound.Sir J. Chardin remarks, that in the East, every where in the morning may be heard the noise of the mills, which often awakens people; for they generally grind every day just as much as may be necessary for the day's consumption. Where, then, the noise of the mill is not heard in the morning, nor the light of the candle seen in the evening, there must be an utter desolation.

Ec 12:2-4

seventy.This prophecy was delivered in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, and began to be accomplished immediately; and it was exactly seventy years from this time to the proclamation of Cyrus for the return of the Jews.

12; 2Ch 36:21,22; Isa 23:15-17; Da 9:2; Zec 1:12; 7:5

Habakkuk 1:6

I raise.

De 28:49-52; 2Ki 24:2; 2Ch 36:6,17; Isa 23:13; 39:6,7; Jer 1:15,16

Jer 4:6,8; 5:15; 6:22,23; 21:4; 25:9

breadth. Heb. breadths.