Commentaries:Adam Clarke
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Jeremiah 51:27
Set ye up a standard - Another summons to the Medes and Persians to attack Babylon.
Ararat, Minni - The Greater and Lesser Armenia.
And Ashchenaz - A part of Phrygia, near the Hellespont. So Bochart, Phaleg, lib. 1 c. 3, lib. 3 c. 9. Concerning Ashchenaz Homer seems to speak, Il. 2:370, 371: -
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"Ascanius, godlike youth, and Phorcys led
The Phrygians from Ascania' s distant land."
Calmet thinks that the Ascantes, who dwelt in the vicinity of the Tanais, are meant.
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