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How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
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The 'Sheshach' Cipher
Commentators explain that 'Sheshach' is a code name for Babylon. Most scholars, like Calvin and Gill, believe it was created using a Hebrew cipher called 'athbash,' where the last letter of the alphabet is substituted for the first, the second-to-last for the second, and so on. This literary device adds a layer of style while the parallel use of 'Babylon' in the same verse makes the meaning clear.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Sheshach - Babylon: see the Jeremiah 51:1 note.
Surprised - i.e., seized, captured.
19th Century
Anglican
How is Sheshach taken! —“Sheshach,” it will be remembered, is the cypher which, as explained in the Note on Jeremiah 25:2…
16th Century
Protestant
Here the wonder expressed by the Prophet served to confirm what he had said, for he thus dispelled those things that usually disturbed the minds of…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
How is Sheshach taken ! &c.] Not the city Shushan, as Sir John Marsham thinks F5 ; but Babylon, as is plain fr…
The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same themes are left and then returned to. Babylon is abundant in treasures,…