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Jeremiah 50:2

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Declare: Jeremiah 6:18, Jeremiah 31:10, Jeremiah 46:14; Psalms 64:9, Psalms 96:3; Isaiah 12:4, Isaiah 48:6, Isaiah 66:18-19; Revelation 14:6-8

set up: Heb. lift up, Isaiah 13:2

Babylon: Jeremiah 51:8; Isaiah 21:9; Revelation 14:8, Revelation 18:2

Bel: Jeremiah 51:44; Isaiah 46:1

Merodach: Jeremiah 52:31; Isaiah 39:1

her idols: Jeremiah 50:46, Jeremiah 43:12-13; Isaiah 37:19; Zephaniah 2:11; Xerxes, after his return from his unsuccessful expedition into Greece, partly out of religious zeal, being a professed enemy to image worship, and partly to reimburse himself after his immense expenses, seized the sacred treasures, and plundered or destroyed the temples and idols of Babylon, thereby accomplishing the prophecies of Isaiah and Jeremiah. (Isaiah 21:9, Isaiah 46:1; Jeremiah 50:2, Jeremiah 51:44, Jeremiah 51:47, Jeremiah 51:52.) What God declares, "I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth that which he has swallowed," was also literally fulfilled, when the vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought from Jerusalem and placed in the temple of Bel, Daniel 1:2, were restored by order of Cyrus, Ezra 1:7, and again carried to Jerusalem. Bp. Newton, Dis. X.

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