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and they rose up against him in battle. He fled and returned to Babylon with great disappointment.
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Verse 4. Battle. it is not known whether Elymais belonged to the king. Strabo (xvi) observes it was very jealous of its liberty, which it maintained against the Persians and the successors of Alexander. Calmet.—Babylonia. At last he returned toward the country of Babylon. But before he arrived, the news of his generals’ bad success in Judea filled him with vexation, and brought on desperate diseases. verse 8, and 2 B. 9:5. Worthington.—He intended to pass by the country or city of Babylon, but was prevented by illness on the mountains which dived it from Persia.
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