Jer 50:2, 51:9-10, Joh 17:26 | TSK | STEP | Declare. set up. Heb. lift up. Babylon. Bel. Merodach. her idols. Xerxes, after his return from his unsuccessful expedition into Greece, partly out of religious zeal, being a professed enemy to image worship, and partly to reimburse himself after his immense expenses, seized the sacred treasures, and plundered or destroyed the temples and idols of Babylon, thereby accomplishing the prophecies of Isaiah and Jeremiah. (Isa 21:9; 46:1. Jer 50:2; 51:44, 47, 52.) What God declares, "I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth that which he has swallowed," was also literally fulfilled, when the vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought from Jerusalem and placed in the temple of Bel, Da 1:2, were restored by order of Cyrus, Ezr 1:7, and again carried to Jerusalem. Bp. Newton, Dis. X.

Jeremiah 50:2

Declare.

6:18; 31:10; 46:14; Ps 64:9; 96:3; Isa 12:4; 48:6; 66:18,19

Re 14:6-8

set up. Heb. lift up.

Isa 13:2

Babylon.

51:8; Isa 21:9; Re 14:8; 18:2

Bel.

51:44; Isa 46:1

Merodach.

52:31; Isa 39:1

her idols.

46; 43:12,13; Isa 37:19; Zep 2:11Xerxes, after his return from his unsuccessful expedition into Greece, partly out of religious zeal, being a professed enemy to image worship, and partly to reimburse himself after his immense expenses, seized the sacred treasures, and plundered or destroyed the temples and idols of Babylon, thereby accomplishing the prophecies of Isaiah and Jeremiah. (Isa 21:9; 46:1. Jer 50:2; 51:44, 47, 52.) What God declares, "I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth that which he has swallowed," was also literally fulfilled, when the vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought from Jerusalem and placed in the temple of Bel, Da 1:2, were restored by order of Cyrus, Ezr 1:7, and again carried to Jerusalem. Bp. Newton, Dis. X.

Jeremiah 51:9-10

forsake.

8:20; 46:16,21; 50:16; Isa 13:14; 47:15; Mt 25:10-13

her judgment.

2Ch 28:9; Ezr 9:6; Da 4:20-22; Re 18:5

brought.

Ps 37:6; Mic 7:9,10

let us.

31:6-9; 50:28; Ps 9:14; 102:19-21; 116:18,19; 126:1-3; Isa 40:2

Isa 51:11; 52:9,10; Re 14:1-3; 19:1-6

John 17:26

I have.

6; 8:50; 15:15; Ps 22:22; Heb 2:12

that.

14:23; 15:9; Eph 1:6,22,23; 2:4,5; 5:30,32; 2Th 2:16

and I.

23; 6:56; 14:20; 15:4; Ro 8:10; 1Co 1:30; 12:12; Ga 2:20; Eph 3:17

Col 1:27; 2:10; 3:11; 1Jo 3:24; 4:13,14