Isa 39:6 | JFB | STEP | 6. days come —one hundred twenty years afterwards. This is the first intimation that the Jews would be carried to Babylon —the first designation of their place of punishment. The general prophecy of Moses ( ); the more particular one of Ahijah in Jeroboam's time ( ), "beyond the river"; and of , "captivity beyond Damascus"; are now concentrated in this specific one as to "Babylon" ( ). It was an exact retribution in kind, that as Babylon had been the instrument of Hezekiah and Judah's sin, so also it should be the instrument of their punishment.

Isaiah 39:6

6. days come—one hundred twenty years afterwards. This is the first intimation that the Jews would be carried to Babylon—the first designation of their place of punishment. The general prophecy of Moses (Le 26:33; De 28:64); the more particular one of Ahijah in Jeroboam's time (1Ki 14:15), "beyond the river"; and of Am 5:27, "captivity beyond Damascus"; are now concentrated in this specific one as to "Babylon" (Mic 4:10). It was an exact retribution in kind, that as Babylon had been the instrument of Hezekiah and Judah's sin, so also it should be the instrument of their punishment.