Isa 13:3, 44:28-45:1, Jer 27:6, 40:2, 43:10, Eze 29:18-20 | TSK | STEP

to open.All the streets of Babylon, leading on each side to the river, were secured by two leaved brazen gates, and these were providentially left open when Cyrus's forces entered the city in the night, through the channel of the river, in the general disorder occasioned by the great feast which was then celebrated; otherwise, says Herodotus, the Persians would have been shut up in the bed of the river, as in a net, and all destroyed. The gates of the palace were also imprudently opened to ascertain the occasion of the tumult; when the two parties under Gobrias and Gadatas rushed in, got possession of the palace, and slew the king.

Na 2:6

Jeremiah 27:6

I given all.

28:14; Da 2:37,38; 5:18,19

my.

24:1; 25:9; 43:10; 51:20-23; Isa 44:28; Eze 29:18-20

and.

28:14; Ps 50:10-12; Da 2:38

Jeremiah 40:2

The Lord.

22:8,9; De 29:24-28; 1Ki 9:8,9; 2Ch 7:20-22; La 2:15-17

Jeremiah 43:10

I will send.

1:15; 25:6-26; 27:6-8; Eze 29:18-20; Da 2:21; 5:18,19

my servant.

25:9; 27:6; 46:27,28; Isa 44:28; 45:1; Mt 22:7

his royal.

1Ki 20:12,16; Ps 18:11; 27:5; 31:20

Ezekiel 29:18-20

Nebuchadrezzar.

26:7-12; Jer 25:9; 27:6

a great.Nebuchadnezzar was thirteen years employed in the siege. During this long siege, the soldiers must have endured great hardships; their heads would become bald by constantly wearing their helmets; and their shoulders be peeled by carrying materials to and from the works.

yet.St. Jerome asserts, on the authority of the Assyrian histories, that when the Tyrians saw their city must fall, they put their most valuable effects on board their ships, and fled with them to the islands, and their colonies, "so that, the city being taken, Nebuchadnezzar found nothing worthy of his labour."

I will.

8-10; 30:10-12; Jer 43:10-13

take her spoil, and take her pray. Heb. spoil her spoil, andprey her prey.

labour. or, hire. served.

2Ki 10:30; Isa 10:6,7; 45:1-3; Jer 25:9