Expositor's Bible: The Book of Jeremiah, Chapters XXI.-LII.

by W. H. Bennett

[196] Sheshach (Sheshakh) for Babel also occurs in li. 41. This explanatory note is omitted by LXX.

[197] As to Damascus cf. note on p. 213.

[198] This line is somewhat paraphrased. Lit. "I will shatter you, and ye shall fall like an ornamental vessel" (KELI HEMDA).

[199] Tacitus, History, v. 5.

[200] Second edition, ii. 291, 292.

[201] Meyer, Geschichte des alten Ägypten, 371, 373.

[202] ii. 293.

[203] Giesebrecht, with LXX.

[204] Giesebrecht, Orelli, Kautzsch, with LXX., Syr., and Vulg., by an alteration of the pointing.

[205] LXX. omits verse 26. Verses 27, 28 = xxx. 10, 11, and probably are an insertion here.