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Jeremías 51:41
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¡Cómo ha sido tomada Sesac, y arrebatada la gloria de toda la tierra! ¡Cómo se ha convertido Babilonia en objeto de horror entre las naciones!
�C�mo fue apresada Sesac, y fue tomada la que era alabada por toda la tierra! �C�mo vino a ser Babilonia objeto de horror entre las naciones!
�C�mo fue presa Sesac, y fue tomada la que era alabada por toda la tierra! �C�mo fue Babilonia por espanto entre los gentiles!
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.
