Jer 50:2

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Declare.

Jer 6:18; Jer 31:10; Jer 46:14; Ps 64:9; Ps 96:3; Isa 12:4; Isa 48:6; Isa 66:18; Isa 66:19 Re 14:6-8

set up. Heb. lift up.

Isa 13:2

Babylon.

Jer 51:8; Isa 21:9; Rev 14:8; Rev 18:2

Bel.

Jer 51:44; Isa 46:1

Merodach.

Jer 52:31; Isa 39:1

her idols.

Jer 50:46; Jer 43:12; Jer 43:13; Isa 37:19; Zeph 2:11

Xerxes, 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.