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Księga Jeremiasza 51:41

O, jak wzięto Babilon i schwytano! Jak ta pieśń pochwalna całej ziemi zionie teraz grozą między narodami!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Babylon;   Persia;   Sheshach;   War;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Babylon;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Sheshach;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Sheshach;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Sheshak;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Jonah;   Persia, Persians;   Sheshach;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Sheshach ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Babylon;   Smith Bible Dictionary - She'shach;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Games;   How;   Jeremiah (2);   Sheshach;  

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
I jako jest dobyte Sesach? I jako wzięte jest nasławniejsze po wszytkiej ziemi? I jakoż się stało Babilon w zdumienie miedzy ludźmi?
Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Jakożby dobyty mógł być Sesach? Jakożby wzięta być mogła chwała wszystkiej ziemi? Jakożby mógł przyjść na spustoszenie Babilon między narodami?
Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Czyżby został zdobyty Szeszak , wzięta sława całej ziemi? Czyżby Babel zamienił się w zgrozę pomiędzy narodami?
Biblia Tysiąclecia
Jakożby dobyty mógł być Sesach? Jakożby wzięta być mogła chwała wszystkiej ziemi? Jakożby mógł przyjść na spustoszenie Babilon między narodami?
Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Jakże został zdobyty Szeszak! Jakże została wzięta chwała całej ziemi! Jakże Babilon stał się spustoszeniem wśród narodów!
Biblia Warszawska
Hej, Babilon zdobyty i wzięta chwała całej ziemi! Babilon przedmiotem grozy wśród narodów!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Sheshach: Sheshach was probably an idol worshipped at Babylon, from which the city derived this name; and the festival which was held when the city was taken, when they were heated with wine, was perhaps observed in honour of it. Jeremiah 25:26, Daniel 5:1-3

the praise: Jeremiah 49:25, Jeremiah 50:23, Isaiah 13:19, Isaiah 14:4, Daniel 2:38, Daniel 4:22, Daniel 4:30, Daniel 5:4, Daniel 5:5, Revelation 18:10-19

an astonishment: Jeremiah 51:37, Jeremiah 50:46, Deuteronomy 28:37, 2 Chronicles 7:21, Ezekiel 27:35

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 51:8 - suddenly Nahum 3:7 - Nineveh

Gill's Notes on the Bible

How is Sheshach taken!.... Not the city Shushan, as Sir John Marsham thinks e; but Babylon, as is plain from a following clause; and so the Targum,

"how is Babylon subdued!''

called Sheshach, by a position and commutation of letters the Jews call "athbash"; so Jarchi, Kimchi, and Abarbinel account for it; or else from their idol Shach, the same with Bel, which was worshipped here, and had a temple erected for it; and where an annual feast was kept in honour of it, called the Sacchean feast; and which was observing the very time the city was taken; and may be the true reason of its having this name given it now; :-; the taking of which was very wonderful; and therefore this question is put by way of admiration; it being so well fortified and provided to hold out a long siege:

and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised? for it was taken by stratagem and surprise, before the king and his guards, the army, and the inhabitants of it, were aware; that city, which was matter and occasion of praise to all the world, and went through it; for the compass of it, and height and strength of its walls; the river Euphrates that ran through it, and flowed about it; the temple, palaces, and gardens in it:

how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations! or, "a desolation"; and indeed its being a desolation was the reason of its being an astonishment among the nations; who were amazed to see so strong, rich, and splendid a city brought to ruin in a very short time.

e Canon. Chron. p. 607.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Sheshach - Babylon: see the Jeremiah 51:1 note.

Surprised - i. e., seized, captured.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 51:41. How is Sheshach taken! — Perhaps the city is here called by the name of its idol.

The praise of the whole earth — One of the seven wonders of the world; superexcellent for the height, breadth, and compass of its walls, its hanging gardens, the temple of Belus, &c., &c.


 
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