Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 13:19
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Isaiah13:19
19 And Babylon the glory of kingdoms , the beauty of the Caldees excellency , shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah .
Which once was the most noble and excellent of all the Kingdoms then in being, and was more glorious than the succeeding Empires, whence it was represented by the head of gold, Dan. 2. 37.
The famous and beautiful Seat of the Chaldaean Monarchy.
Shall be totally and irrecoverably destroyed, as is more fully expressed in the following Verses. Which yet was not done immediately upon the taking of the City by Darius and Cyrus, but was fulfilled by degrees, as is confessed by Historians, and appears this day.
Marginal references: Heb. as the overthrowing.; Gen. 19. 24. Deut. 29. 23. Jer. 49. 18. & 50. 40.
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