Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 49:34

34 ¶ The word of the LORD, that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah saying .

Elam was the son of Sem, Gen. 10.22. his posterity were called Ela[illegible: 1 letter]ites, these were the Persians as is most probable, though some judge that the Persians were at too great a distance from the Jews to be the people meant here, but we read of no other Elam in Scripture but in Persia, Dan. 8.2. and though they were indeed at a great distance, yet it is probable that Nebuchadnezzar having conquered the Assyrians might also make some inroads in Persia, the Emperour of which afterward conquered Babylon. This Prophesie being in the first year of Zedekiah must needs be long before the thing was done, for it was ten years before the King of Babylon took Hierusalem.

Marginal references: chap. [illegible: 2 letters].25.