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Nebuchadnezzar held in subjection Egypt, Syria, .Phoenicia, Arabia,
the greater part of Libya and Spain. He also led his army into
Thrace and Pontus, (Vide New. on Proph. pp. 186, 187.) The Prophet
Jeremiah, when speaking of an invasion of the king of Babylon (Jer.
iv: 7), says: " The lion is come up from his thicket, and the
destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way." As the lion is the king
of beasts, so Babylon was at that time the most renowned and
powerful kingdom on the earth. This mighty Empire was overthrown
about B.c. 538, and was succeeded by the Medes and Persians, who,
from their cruelty and thirst for blood, are represented by a bear.
" And they said thus unto it: "Arise, devour muchflesh," evidently
indicating, as in Isa. xxi: 2, an invasion of Babylon: "Go up, O
Elam, besiege, O Media," or, as in Chap. xiii: 17, " Behold, I will
stir up the Medes against them." "And Babylon (v. 19), the glory of
kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when
God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah." The dominion of the Medes and
Persians, as we learn from Esth. i: 1, extended over 127 Provinces.
" It was bounded on the east by the Red Sea, on the north by the
Euxine Sea, on the west by Cyprus and Egypt, on the south by
Ethiopia, (Clark's Com). This kingdom was overthrown by Alexander
the Great, about B.c. 331, "He crossed the Caucasus, subdued
Hyrcania, and penetrated into India as far as the Ganges; and
having conquered all the countries that lay between the Adriatic
Sea, and this river,1 the Ganges," he fulfilled the declaration
Clark's Com, on Daniel. of the prophet (Dan. ii: 19) " And another
third kingdom of brass" (shall arise), "which shall bear rule over
all the earth." This mighty Empire, however, did not remain long
consolidated; for Alexander dying ...
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