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JeremĂas 51:30
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Han dejado de luchar los valientes de Babilonia, permanecen en las fortalezas; se han agotado sus fuerzas, se han vuelto como mujeres; han sido incendiadas sus moradas, rotos están sus cerrojos.
Los valientes de Babilonia dejaron de pelear, se han quedado en sus fortalezas; les faltaron las fuerzas, se han vuelto como mujeres; encendieron sus casas, quebrados están sus cerrojos.
Los valientes de Babilonia dejaron de pelear, se estuvieron en sus fuertes; les faltó su fortaleza, se tornaron como mujeres; encendieron los enemigos sus casas, quebraron sus cerrojos.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
The mighty: Accordingly, the Babylonians, after the loss of a battle or two, never recovered their courage to the face the enemy in the field, they retired within their walls; and the first time that Cyrus came with his army before the place he could not provoke them to venture forth, though he challenged the king to fight a duel with him; and the last time he came he consulted with his officers respecting the best mode of carrying on the siege "since," said he, "they do not come out to fight." Jeremiah 51:32, Jeremiah 51:57, Jeremiah 48:41, Jeremiah 50:36, Jeremiah 50:37, Psalms 76:5, Isaiah 13:7, Isaiah 13:8, Isaiah 19:16, Nahum 3:13, Revelation 18:10
her bars: Jeremiah 50:36, *marg. Psalms 107:16, Psalms 147:13, Isaiah 45:1, Isaiah 45:2, Lamentations 2:9, Amos 1:5, Nahum 3:13
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 19:26 - of small power Jeremiah 46:19 - waste Jeremiah 51:56 - her mighty Jeremiah 51:58 - high gates Lamentations 1:6 - her princes Nahum 2:8 - Stand
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight,.... Or, "ceased from fighting" h for it seems, upon Cyrus's first coming, the king of Babylon and his army gave him battle; but being overthrown, they retired to the city i, and dared never fight more:
they have remained in [their] holds; in the towers and fortresses of Babylon, never daring to sally out of the city, or appear in the field of battle any more; even though Cyrus sent the king of Babylon a personal challenge, to end the quarrel by a single combat k:
their might hath failed; their courage sunk and was gone; they had no heart to face their enemy:
they became as women; as weak as they, as the Targum; timorous and fearful, having no courage left in them, and behaved more like women than men:
they have burnt her dwelling places; that is, the enemy burnt their houses, when they entered into the city, to inject terror into them:
her bars are broken; the bars of the gates of the city, or of the palaces of the king and nobles, and of the houses of the people, by the soldiers, to get the plunder; see Isaiah 45:1.
h חדלו להלחם "cessaverunt a praelio", V. L. "desinent pugnare", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "cessarunt pugnare", Schmidt. So Pagninus, Montanus. i Xenophon, Cyropaedia, l. 5. c. 19. Herodot. l. 1. sive Clio. c. 190. k Xenophon, ib. l. 5. c. 10.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Have forborn to fight - Or, have ceased to fight: in despair when they saw that the conflict was hopeless.
Holds - The word properly means an acropolis, and so any inaccessible place of refuge.
They have burned - i. e., the enemy have burned.
Bars - i. e., fortifications (compare Amos 1:5).
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jeremiah 51:30. The mighty men - have forborne to fight — They were panic-struck when they found the Medes and Persians within their walls, and at once saw that resistance was useless.
