Upon the walls of Babylon - Or, “against the walls.” The King James Version takes the word ironically, as a summons to Babylon to p…

Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon. —The Authorised version, following the Septuagint and the Vulgate, takes the words as an ir…

These words seem to have been addressed to the Chaldeans rather than to the Medes or the Persians, as some interpret them. This interpretation is f…

Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon. This is not said to the Medes and Persians, to put up a flag on the walls of Babylon…

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