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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Jeremiah 50:16

Babylon had the extent rather of a nation than of a city. Therefore grain was grown within the city wall sufficient to last for a long siege [ARISTOTLE, Politics, 3.2; PLINY, 18.17]. Conquerors usually spare agriculturists, but in this case all alike were to be "cut off."

for fear of . . . oppressing sword—because of the sword of the oppressor.

every one to his people—from which they had been removed to Babylon from all quarters by the Chaldean conquerors (Jeremiah 51:9; Isaiah 13:14).

Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 50:16:

Isaiah 13:14
Jeremiah 25:38

 

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