OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 51:47

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47

Therefore behold, the days come that I will execute judgment on the engraved images of Babylon; and her whole land will be confounded. All her slain will fall in the middle of her.

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Verse 47. Idols; Bel, and so forth verse 41.—Slain. Hebrew “dancers.” The people were feasting. Calmet.—It means also “slain,” (Prot.) or “soldiers.”

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