The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 51:58

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

The broad walls of Babylon … and her high gates. See Herod; 1.179, 181, and the parallel accounts from other authors, cited by Duncker ('Hist. of Antiquity,' 3.373, etc.), who taxes Herodotus with exaggeration, but admits as probable that the walls were not less than forty feet broad.

Utterly broken; rather, destroyed even to the ground (literally, made bare). The people; rather, peoples.

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