Exo 12:12, 1Sa 5:2-4, Isa 21:9, 46:1-2, Jer 43:12, 46:25, 50:2, 51:44 | TSK | STEP | pass. will smite. against. gods. or, princes. I am the Lord.

of Dagon.The name of this idol, Dagon, signifies a fish: and it is supposed to be the Atergatis of the Syrians, corruptly called Derceto by the Greeks, which had the upper part like a woman, and the lower part like a fish; as Lucian informs us: [Derketous de eidos en Phoinike etheésamén, theéma xenon; émisen men gyné; to de okoson ek mérón es akrous podas, ichtlyos ouré apoteinetai;] "In Phoenicia I saw the image of Derceto; a strange sight truly! For she had the half of a woman, but from the thighs downward a fish's tail." Diodorus, (1. ii.) describing the same idol, as represented at Askelon, says, [to men prosópon echei synaikos, to d'allo sóma pan ichthyos.] "It had the head of a woman, but all the rest of the body a fish's." Probably Horace alludes to this idol, in De Art. Poet. v. 4; {Desinat in piscem, mulier formosa superne:} "The upper part a handsome woman, and the lower part a fish." If such was the form of this idol, then everything that was human was broken off from what resembled a fish.

the stump. or, the fishy part.

Isaiah 21:9

behold.

Jer 50:3,9,29,42; 51:27

Babylon.

13:19; 14:4; Jer 50:2; 51:8,64; Re 14:8; 18:2,21

all.

46:1,2; Jer 50:2,38; 51:44,47,52

Isaiah 46:1-2

1 The idols of Babylon could not save themselves.

3 God saves his people to the end.

5 Idols are not comparable to God for power,

12 or present salvation.

Bel.Bel, called Belus by the Greek and Roman writers, is the same as Baal; and Nebo is interpreted by Castell and Norberg of Mercury; the two principal idols of Babylon. When that city was taken by the Persians, these images were carried in triumph.

21:9; 41:6,7; Ex 12:12; 1Sa 5:3; Jer 48:1-25; 50:2; 51:44,47,52

a burden.

2:20; Jer 10:5

they could.

36:18,19; 37:12,19; 44:17; 45:20

but.

Jud 18:17,18,24; 2Sa 5:21; Jer 43:12,13; 48:7

themselves are. Heb. their soul is.

Jeremiah 43:12

in the.

46:25; 48:7; 50:2; 51:44; Ex 12:12; 2Sa 5:21; Isa 19:1; 21:9; 46:1

Eze 30:13; Zep 2:11

array.

Es 6:9; Job 40:10

putteth.

Ps 109:18,19; 132:16,18; Isa 49:18; 52:1; 59:17; 61:5,10; Ro 13:12

Eph 4:24; 6:11; Col 3:12,14

Jeremiah 46:25

multitude. or, nourisher. Heb. Amon. No.

Eze 30:14; Na 3:8

with their.

43:12,13; Ex 12:12; Isa 19:1; Eze 30:13; Zep 2:11

and their.

Eze 32:9-12; Na 3:9

and all.

17:5,6; 42:14-16; Isa 20:5,6; 30:2,3; 31:1-3; Eze 39:6,7

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 51:44

I will punish.

18,47; 50:2; Isa 46:1,2

I will bring.

34; 2Ch 36:7; Ezr 1:7; Da 1:2; 5:2-4,26

the nations.

Isa 2:2; 60:5; Da 3:2,3,29; 4:1,22; 5:19,31; Re 18:9-19

the wall.

53,58