Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures, derived principally from the manners, customs, rites, traditions and works of art and literature, of the eastern nations : embodying all that is valuable in the works of Harmer, Burder, Paxton, and Roberts, and the most celebrated oriental travellers . BABYLON. }er. Cl:«9. Page 516. Chap. 49—51. JEREMIAH. 513 but there shall be no kingdom there, and all her princesshall be nothing. Amid the mausoleums and .sepulchres, the remains oftemples or palaces, and the raultiplicily of tombs, which allform, as it were, the grave of Idumea, where its ancientsplendour
Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures, derived principally from the manners, customs, rites, traditions and works of art and literature, of the eastern nations : embodying all that is valuable in the works of Harmer, Burder, Paxton, and Roberts, and the most celebrated oriental travellers . BABYLON. }er. Cl:«9. Page 516. Chap. 49—51. JEREMIAH. 513 but there shall be no kingdom there, and all her princesshall be nothing. Amid the mausoleums and .sepulchres, the remains oftemples or palaces, and the raultiplicily of tombs, which allform, as it were, the grave of Idumea, where its ancientsplendour is interred, there are edifices, the Roman andGrecian architecture of which decides that they were Ifuilllong posterior to the era of the propheis.—Keith. Ver. 19. Behold, he shall come up like a lionfrom the swelling of Jordan against the habita-tion of the strong: but I will suddenly makehim run away from her; and who is a chosenman, that I may appoint over her? for who islike me? and who will appoint me the time? andwho is that shepherd that will stand before me?See on Josli. 3. 15. CHAPTER L. Ver. 2. Declare ye among the nations, and pub-lish, and set up a standard ; publish, a?id con-ceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is con-founded, Merodach is broken in pieces; herid
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