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Isaiæ 51:46
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et ne forte mollescat cor vestrum, et timeatis auditum qui audietur in terra : et veniet in anno auditio, et post hunc annum auditio, et iniquitas in terra, et dominator super dominatorem.
et ne forte mollescat cor vestrum,
et timeatis auditum qui audietur in terra:
et veniet in anno auditio,
et post hunc annum auditio,
et iniquitas in terra,
et dominator super dominatorem.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
lest: or, let not, 2 Kings 19:7, Matthew 24:6-8, Mark 13:7, Mark 13:8, Luke 21:9-19, Luke 21:28
a rumour shall: Isaiah 13:3-5, Isaiah 21:2, Isaiah 21:3
ruler against: Judges 7:22, 1 Samuel 14:16-20, 2 Chronicles 20:23, Isaiah 19:2
Reciprocal: Jeremiah 49:14 - heard Obadiah 1:1 - We
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land,.... The rumour of war in the land of Chaldea; the report of the Medes and Persians preparing to invade it, and besiege Babylon, in the peace of which city the Jews had peace; and therefore might fear they should suffer in the calamities of it; but, lest they should, they are ordered to go cut of it, and accept the liberty that should be granted by the conqueror, who would do them no hurt, but good; and had therefore nothing to fear from him; and, as a token, assuring them of this, the following things are declared; which, when they should observe, they need not be troubled, being forewarned; yea, might take encouragement from it, and believe that their redemption drew nigh:
a rumour shall both come [one] year and after that in [another] year [shall come] a rumour; in one year there was a rumour of the great preparation Cyrus was making to invade Chaldea, and besiege Babylon; in another year, that is, the following, as the Targum rightly renders it, there was a second rumour of his coming; and who actually did come into Assyria, but was stopped at the river Gyndes, not being able to pass it for want of boats; and, being enraged at the loss of a favourite horse in it, resolved upon the draining it; which he accomplished, by cutting many sluices and rivulets; in doing which he spent the whole summer; and the spring following came to Babylon, as Herodotus l relates; when what is after predicted followed:
and violence in the land, ruler against ruler; the king of Babylon came out with his forces to meet Cyrus, as the same historian says; when a battle ensue, in which the former was beat, and obliged to retire into the city, which then Cyrus besieged; and thus violence and devastations were made in the land by the army of the Medes and Persians; and ruler was against ruler; Cyrus against Belshazzar, and Belshazzar against him. Some read it, "ruler upon ruler" m; that is, one after another, in a very short time; so Jarchi, Kimchi, and Abarbinel; thus two before Belshazzar, then Darius, and, after Darius, Cyrus.
l L. 1. sive Clio, c. 189, 190. m משל על משל "dominator super dominatorem", Pagninus, Montanus, Calvin, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Schmidt.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Literally, “And beware lest your heart faint, and ye be afraid because of the rumour that is heard in the land: for in one year shall one rumour come, and afterward in another year another rumour; and violence shall be in the land etc.” The fall of Babylon was to be preceded by a state of unquiet, men’s minds being unsettled partly by rumors of the warlike preparations of the Medes, and of actual invasions: partly by intestine feuds. So before the conquest of Jerusalem by the Romans the Church had similar warnings Matthew 24:6-7.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jeremiah 51:46. A rumour shall - come one year — A year before the capture of the city there shall be a rumour of war, - and in that year Belshazzar was defeated by Cyrus. In the following year the city was taken.
