21. Merathaim —a symbolical name for Babylon, the doubly rebellious, namely, against God. Compare Jeremiah 50:24 , "thou hast striven against the Lord"; and Jeremiah 50:24- : , "proud against the Lord." The "doubly" refers to: first, the Assyrian's oppression of Israel; next, the kindred Chaldean's oppression of Judah (compare Jeremiah 50:17-20 ; Jeremiah 50:33 ; especially Jeremiah 50:33- : ). Pekod — ( Jeremiah 50:33- : ); a chief province of Assyria, in which Nineveh, now overthrown, once lay. But, as in Merathaim, the allusion is to the meaning of Pekod, namely, "visitation"; the inhabitants whose time of deserved visitation in punishment is come; not, however, without reference to the now Babylonian province, Pekod. The visitation on Babylon was a following up of that on Assyria. after them —even their posterity, and all that is still left of Babylon, until the very name is extinct [GROTIUS]. Devastate the city, after its inhabitants have deserted it. all . . . I . . . commanded —by Isaiah ( Jeremiah 50:33- : , &c.). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-23" class="com-number"
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