Jer 50:2 | TNotes | STEP | 50:2 Raising a signal flag was a favored method for warning that an enemy was approaching a city (cp. Isa 13:2 ). • The people of Babylon would be under divine judgment because they worshiped the gods Bel (the Babylonian name for Baal ) and Marduk (the Babylonian deity of wind, storm, and fertility).

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‏ Jeremiah 50:2

50:2 ^a Raising a signal flag was a favored method for warning that an enemy was approaching a city (cp. Isa 13:2 ^b).

• The people of Babylon would be under divine judgment because they worshiped the gods Bel (the Babylonian name for Baal) and Marduk (the Babylonian deity of wind, storm, and fertility).