Deu 28:49 | TNotes | STEP | 28:49 like a vulture (or eagle ): This simile indicates how rapidly the enemy would come. • whose language you do not understand: Both Assyrian and Babylonian were dialects of Akkadian, a language that was related to Hebrew but vastly different in grammar, syntax, and vocabulary (see Isa 36:11-13 ).

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‏ Deuteronomy 28:49

28:49 ^a like a vulture (or eagle): This simile indicates how rapidly the enemy would come.

• whose language you do not understand: Both Assyrian and Babylonian were dialects of Akkadian, a language that was related to Hebrew but vastly different in grammar, syntax, and vocabulary (see Isa 36:11-13 ^b).