Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 46:1

1. BEl boweth down , Nebo stoopeth, their Idols were upon the beasts , and upon the cattel: your carriages were heavy laden , they are a burden to the weary beast.

The chief Idols of the Babylonians, Ier. 50. 2. and 51. 44. called by pro[illegible: 1+ letters]ane Historians Iupiter Belus.

As the Babylonians used to bow down to him to worship him, so now he boweth down and submits himself to the victorious Persians.

Another of the famous Idols, which used to deliver Oracles, as his name signifies.

Were taken and broken, and the materials of them, which were Gold, and Silver, and Brass, as both Scripture and other Authors witness, were carried upon Beasts into Persia.

O ye Persians; to whom he suddenly turneth his speech, as is usual.

They lie upon the backs of your Cattel like dull and unprofitable, and heavy burdens to the beasts, as they had been to men before.

Marginal references: Or, your luggage was born.