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Jeremia 51:30

Listen to Jeremia 51:30
30 Babels helden hebben opgehouden te strijden, zij zijn gebleven in de vestingen, hun macht is bezweken, zij zijn tot wijven geworden; zij hebben hun woningen aangestoken, hun grendels zijn verbroken.

Jeremia 51:30 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 51:30

The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight
Or, "ceased from fighting" F8 for it seems, upon Cyrus's first coming, the king of Babylon and his army gave him battle; but being overthrown, they retired to the city F9, and dared never fight more: they have remained in [their] holds;
in the towers and fortresses of Babylon, never daring to sally out of the city, or appear in the field of battle any more; even though Cyrus sent the king of Babylon a personal challenge, to end the quarrel by a single combat F11: their might hath failed;
their courage sunk and was gone; they had no heart to face their enemy: they became as women;
as weak as they, as the Targum; timorous and fearful, having no courage left in them, and behaved more like women than men: they have burnt her dwelling places;
that is, the enemy burnt their houses, when they entered into the city, to inject terror into them: her bars are broken;
the bars of the gates of the city, or of the palaces of the king and nobles, and of the houses of the people, by the soldiers, to get the plunder; see ( Isaiah 45:1 Isaiah 45:2 ) .


FOOTNOTES:

F8 (Mxlhl wldx) "cessaverunt a praelio", V. L. "desinent pugnare", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "cessarunt pugnare", Schmidt. So Pagninus, Montanus.
F9 Xenophon, Cyropaedia, l. 5. c. 19. Herodot. l. 1. sive Clio. c. 190.
F11 Xenophon, ib. l. 5. c. 10.
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Jeremia 51:30 In-Context

28 Heiligt tegen haar de heidenen, de koningen van Medie, haar landvoogden en al haar overheden, ja, het ganse land harer heerschappij.
29 Dan zal het land beven en pijn lijden; want elk een van des HEEREN gedachten staat vast tegen Babel, om Babels land te stellen tot een verwoesting, dat er geen inwoner zij.
30 Babels helden hebben opgehouden te strijden, zij zijn gebleven in de vestingen, hun macht is bezweken, zij zijn tot wijven geworden; zij hebben hun woningen aangestoken, hun grendels zijn verbroken.
31 De loper zal den loper tegemoet lopen, en de kondschapper den kondschapper tegemoet, om den koning van Babel bekend te maken, dat zijn stad van het einde is ingenomen;
32 En dat de veren ingenomen, en de rietpoelen met vuur verbrand zijn; en dat de krijgslieden verbaasd zijn.

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