The sacred vessels plundered from Jerusalem, and laid up in the very temple of Bel, should be restored; the men and women dragged from other lands …

And I will punish Bel in Babylon. —See Note on Jeremiah 50:2. The god whom Babylon worshipped is, as before, thought of a…

God again declares that He would take vengeance on the idols of Babylon; not that God is properly incensed against idols, for they are nothing but …

And I will punish Bel in Babylon The idol of the Babylonians, who had a temple in Babylon, where he was worshipped: the s…

The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same themes are left and then returned to. Babylon is abundant in treasures,…