Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 13:2

2 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain , exalt the voice unto them , shake the hand , that they may go into the gates of the nobles .

To gather Soldiers together for this Expedition.

Whence it may be discerned at a considerable distance. Withal he seems to intimate▪ that their Enemies should come from the Mountainous Country of Media.

To the Medes, who are named below, v. 17.

Becken to them with your Hand, that they may come to this Service.

That they may go and fight against Babylon, and take it, and so enter into the Palaces of the King, and of his Princes, and spoil them at their pleasure; which the Medes and Persians did. The manner of Expression implies how easily and expeditiously they did their Work, that, like Caesar, they might say, they onely came, and saw, and overcame.

Marginal references: Chap. 18. 3.