Isa 46:1, Jer 50:2, Dan 3:1, 4:8 | TSK | STEP | The idols of Babylon could not save themselves. God saves his people to the end. Idols are not comparable to God for power, 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. a burden.

Isaiah 46:1

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

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.

Daniel 3:1

1 Nebuchadnezzar dedicates a golden image in Dura.

8 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are accused for not worshipping the image.

13 They being threatened, make a good confession.

19 They are cast into the furnace,

24 from which God delivers them.

28 Nebuchadnezzar seeing the miracle blesses God, and advances them.

A.M. 3424. B.C. 580. made.

2:31,32; 5:23; Ex 20:23; 32:2-4,31; De 7:25; Jud 8:26,27; 1Ki 12:28

2Ki 19:17,18; Ps 115:4-8; 135:15; Isa 2:20; 30:22; 40:19-31; 46:6

Jer 10:9; 16:20; Ho 8:4; Hab 2:19; Ac 17:29; 19:26; Re 9:20

in the province.

30; 2:48; Es 1:1

Daniel 4:8

Belteshazzar.

1:7; 5:12; Isa 46:1; Jer 50:2

and in.

9,18; 2:11; 5:11,14; Nu 11:17-30; Isa 63:11