Jeremiah 51:12
“Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon,.... This is not said to the Medes and Persians, to put up a flag on the…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Upon the walls of Babylon - Or, “against the walls.” The King James Version takes the word ironically, as a summons to…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Jeremiah 51:1-58
The particulars of this copious prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to so often…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
Exhortation to commence the blockade.
watchmen those of the attacking force who were appointed to see that the…
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