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 45:1-2
the people: Jeremiah 51:9, Jeremiah 51:64; Psalms 127:1; Isaiah 65:23; Habakkuk 2:13