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Jeremiah 51:30 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 51 · verse 30
The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.Jeremiah 51:30 · King James Version
Jeremiah 51:30 in context
28Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.
29And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
30The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
31One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
32And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- dwellingplacesmishkâna residence (including a shepherd's hut, the lair of animals, figuratively, the graveH4908 →
- remainedyâshabproperly, to sit downH3427 →
- BabylonBâbelBabel , including Babylonia and the Babylonian empireH894 →
- forbornchâdalproperly, to be flabbyH2308 →
- failednâshathproperly, to eliminateH5405 →
- burnedyâtsathto burn or set on fireH3341 →
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The particulars of this copious prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to so often that it could not well be divided into parts, but we must endeavor to collect them under their proper heads. Let us then observe here, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-58