And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen — This passage is very obscure due to the ambiguity of the word רכב rekeb —…

A chariot with a couple of horsemen. —Better, a troop, a couple. Both asses and camels were employed in the Persian army (Herod.,…

And he saw a chariot. What he now adds contains a lively description of that defeat. Some think that it is told by the king’s messenger. T…

And he saw a chariot [with] a couple of horsemen
The drivers of it, or the riders in it; perhaps meaning Cyrus and D…

Babylon was a flat country, abundantly watered. The destruction of Babylon, so often prophesied by Isaiah, was typical of the destruction of the gr…

1. The burden of the desert of the sea. Here the prophet threatens the enemies who oppre ed Israel by taking their goods, ev…