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Jeremías 51:58
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Así dice el Señor de los ejércitos: La ancha muralla de Babilonia será totalmente arrasada, y sus altas puertas quemadas; los pueblos habrán trabajado en vano, y las naciones sólo para el fuego se habrán fatigado.
As� dice Jehov� de los ej�rcitos: El muro ancho de Babilonia ser� derribado enteramente, y sus altas puertas ser�n quemadas a fuego; y en vano trabajar�n pueblos y gentes en el fuego, y se cansar�n.
As� dijo el SE�OR de los ej�rcitos: El muro ancho de Babilonia ser� derribado enteramente, y sus altas puertas ser�n quemadas a fuego; y en vano trabajar�n pueblos y naciones en el fuego para salvarla , y se cansar�n.
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
The broad walls of Babylon: or, The walls of broad Babylon, According to the testimony of Herodotus, the circumference of the walls of Babylon was 480 stadia, or 60 miles, their breadth 50 cubits, and their height 200 cubits; but when Darius became master of the place, bc 516, he took away all their 100 gates of brass, and beat down their walls to 50 cubits; and now not a vestige of these immense fortifications remains, to mark the site of this once mighty city! Jeremiah 51:44, Jeremiah 50:15
broken: or, made naked
high gates: Jeremiah 51:30, Isaiah 45:1, Isaiah 45:2
the people: Jeremiah 51:9, Jeremiah 51:64, Psalms 127:1, Isaiah 65:23, Habakkuk 2:13
Reciprocal: Job 12:14 - he breaketh Isaiah 13:2 - go into Isaiah 25:12 - the fortress Jeremiah 51:25 - O destroying Jeremiah 51:53 - mount Ezekiel 24:12 - wearied Revelation 18:8 - and she
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thus saith the Lord of hosts,.... Because what follows might seem incredible ever to be effected; it is introduced with this preface, expressed by him who is the God of truth, and the Lord God omnipotent:
the broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken; or rased up; the foundations of them, and the ground on which they stood made naked and bare, and open to public view; everyone of the walls, the inward and the outward, as Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret it. Curtius says s the wall of Babylon was thirty two feet broad, and that carriages might pass by each other without any danger. Herodotus t says it was fifty royal cubits broad, which were three fingers larger than the common measure; and both Strabo u and Diodorus Siculus w affirm, that two chariots drawn with four horses abreast might meet each other, and pass easily; and, according to Ctesias x, the breadth of the wall was large enough for six chariots: or the words may be read, "the walls of broad Babylon" y; for Babylon was very large in circumference; more like a country than a city, as Aristotle z says. Historians differ much about the compass of its wall; but all agree it was very large; the best account, which is that of Curtius a, makes it to be three hundred and fifty eight furlongs (about forty five miles); with Ctesias it was three hundred and sixty; and with Clitarchus three hundred and sixty five, as they are both quoted by Diodorus Siculus b; according to Strabo c it was three hundred and eighty five; and according to Dion Cassius d four hundred; by Philostratus e it is said to be four hundred and eighty; as also by Herodotus; and by Julian f the emperor almost five hundred. Pliny g reckons it sixty miles:
and her high gates shall be burnt with fire; there were a hundred of them, all of brass, with their posts and hinges, as Herodotus h affirms:
and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary; which some understand of the builders of the walls, gates, and city of Babylon, whose labour in the issue was in vain, since the end of them was to be broken and burned; but rather it designs the Chaldeans, who laboured in the fire to extinguish and save the city and its gates, but to no purpose.
s Hist. l. 5. c. 1. t L. 1. sive Clio, c. 178. u Geograph l. 16. p. 508. w Bibl. l. 2. p. 96. x Apud Diodor. ib. y חומות בבל הרחבה "mari Babelis lati", Schmidt. z Politic. l. 3. c. 3. a Hist. l. 5. c. 1. b Ut supra. (Bibl. l. 2. p. 96.) c Ut supra. (Geograph l. 16. p. 508.) d Apud Marsham Canon. p. 590. e Vita Apollon. l. 1. e. 18. f Orat. 3. p. 236. g Nat. Hist. l. 6. c. 26. h L. 1. sive Clio, c. 179.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The broad walls - Herodotus makes the breadth of the walls 85 English feet.
Broken - See the margin. i. e., the ground beneath them shall be laid bare by their demolition.
The people - Or, peoples. Jeremiah concludes his prophecy with a quotation from Habakkuk; applying the words to the stupendous works intended to make Babylon an eternal city, but which were to end in such early and utter disappointment.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 58. The broad walls of Babylon — Herodotus, who saw these walls, says, "The city was a regular square, each side of which was one hundred and twenty stadia, the circumference four hundred and eighty stadia. It was surrounded by a wall fifty cubits broad, and two hundred cubits high; and each side had twenty-five brazen gates." - Herod. lib. i. c. 178. Had not Cyrus resorted to stratagem, humanly speaking, he could not have taken this city. For the destruction of this wall and its very vestiges, Isaiah 13:19.
