Jeremías 51:32

La Biblia Reina-Valera

Y los vados fueron tomados, y los carrizos fueron quemados á fuego, y consternáronse los hombres de guerra.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
también los vados han sido ocupados, y quemados a fuego los juncos, y los guerreros están aterrados.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Y los vados fueron tomados, y los juncos fueron quemados a fuego, y los hombres de guerra est�n aterrados.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
y los vados fueron tomados, y los carrizos fueron quemados a fuego, y se asombraron los hombres de guerra.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the passages: Jeremiah 50:38, Isaiah 44:27

the men: Jeremiah 51:30, Jeremiah 50:37

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 19:26 - of small power Psalms 68:30 - company of spearmen Psalms 102:20 - to loose Jeremiah 50:36 - her mighty Jeremiah 52:7 - all the men

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And that the passages are stopped,.... Or "taken", or "seized" o; where Cyrus placed soldiers to keep them; these were the passages leading from the river Euphrates to the city, the keys of it; the little gates, that Herodotus p speaks of, leading to the river, which were left open that night. Kimchi thinks the towers built by the river side, to keep the enemy out, that should attempt to enter, are meant; these were now in his hands;

and the reeds they have burnt with fire; which grew upon the banks of the river, and in the marshes adjoining to it. Some render it, "the marshes" q; that is, the reeds and bulrushes in them, which usually grow in such places. And Herodotus r makes mention of a marsh Cyrus came to; the reeds in it he burnt, having many torches, with which he might set fire to them; as he proposed with them to burn the houses, doors, and porches s; either to make way for his army, which might hinder the march of it; or to give light, that they might see their way into the city the better: though some think it was to terrify the inhabitants; which seems not so likely, since he marched up to the royal palace with great secrecy. This circumstance is mentioned, to show the certainty of the enemy's entrance, and the taking of part of the city. R. Jonah, from the Arabic language, in which the word t here used signifies "fortresses", so renders it here;

and the men of war are affrighted; and so fled, and left the passes, towers, and fortresses, which fell into the hands of Cyrus, as soon as they perceived his army was come up the channel and was landed, and the reeds were burnt.

o נתפשו "praeoccupata", V. L. "comprehensa", Montanus; "occupati", Tigurine version, Schmidt. p L. 1. sive Clio, c. 191. q את אגמים "paludes", V. L. Syr. Grotius; "stagna", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Schmidt. r L. 1. sive Clio, c. 191. s Xenophon, Cyropaedia, l. 7. c. 22. t "arundinetum feris et hinc munimentum, castellum", Camus apud Golium, col. 33. "castellum, munimentum viarum, arces", Castel. Lex. col. 29.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The passages are stopped - The ferries are seized, occupied. The historians state that when Cyrus captured the city his troops moved down the bed of the river and occupied all these ferries, finding at each of them the gates negligently left open. See the Daniel 5:1 note.

The reeds - literally, the marshes or pools, which formed an important part of the defenses of Babylon, were dried up as completely as a piece of wood would be consumed by fire.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 51:32. That the passages are stopped — Either the bridges or slips for boats, by which the inhabitants passed from one side to the other, and may mean the principal gates or passes in the city, which the victorious army would immediately seize, that they might prevent all communication between the inhabitants.

The reeds they have burned with fire — What this means I cannot tell, unless it refer to something done after the taking of the city. Setting fire to the reeds in the marshy ground, in order the better to clear the places, and give a freer passage to the water, that it may neither stagnate nor turn the solid ground into a marsh. Dr. Blayney thinks it refers to the firing of the houses, in order to throw the inhabitants into the greater confusion; but no historian makes any mention of burning the city, except what is said Jeremiah 51:30, "They have burned her dwelling places;" and this may be a poetical expression. That they burnt nothing before they took the city must be evident from the circumstance of their taking the city by surprise, in the night time, with the greatest secrecy. Still there might have been some gates, barricadoes, or wooden works, serving for barracks or such like, which obstructed some of the great passages, which, when they had entered, they were obliged to burn, in order to get themselves a ready passage through the city. This is the more likely because this burning of reeds is connected with the stopping of the passages, burning the dwelling places, and breaking the bars.