Behold, I will stir up - I will cause them to engage in this enterprise. This is an instance of the control which God claims over t…

Behold, I will stir up the Medes. —The Hebrew form Madai is found in Genesis 10:2, among the descendants of Japh…

Behold I raise up against them the Medes. The Prophet, having predicted the destruction of the Babylonians, also describes the authors—or …

Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them
The Babylonians; this explains who are meant by the sanctified and mig…

We have here the terrible desolation of Babylon by the Medes and Persians. Those who in the day of their peace were proud, and haughty, and terribl…

1. The burden of Babylon. Here the prophet threatens the Babylonians, who had captured the two tribes. This is divided into …