And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Zambri, sprung from Cethura, and dwelling in Arabia, (Calmet) or Persia, (St. Jerome) where Pliny ( vi. 28.) places the Zamarenians.
Elam. Persians, (Haydock) by the sword of Alexander , (St. Jerome) or Cyrus subdued those who were subject to the Medes, and united the two nations.
North. Armenia, subdued by Cyrus and by Alexander.
Brother. When Cyrus stood up for the Persians. All shall drink, as at a feast, (Calmet) of this bitter wine.
Face, and forming the empire of Babylon. (Haydock)
Sesac. That is Babel, or Babylon; which after bringing all these people under her yoke, should quickly fall and be destroyed herself. (Challoner)
The Chaldeans are not expressed, to avoid their resentment. The sh in sheshac, is at the same distance from the end as b in Babel is from the beginning of the alphabet. See St. Jerome. (Haydock) (2 Timothy iv. 17.)
Yet they are not elsewhere spared, chap. xlix. Sesac was probably the idol, "anais or the moon. "(Calmet)
The Sacean feasts were very dissolute, like the saturnalia at Rome. (Dio. Chrys. iv.; Strabo xi.) (Calmet)
Cyrus took Babylon after he had conquered the rest of Asia, and then seizing Nabonides at Borsippe, which was sacred to Anais, "the moon "(Calmet) or Diana, (Strabo xv.) suffered him to die in peace. (Berosus in Josephus, contra Apion 1.)
Thus fell the king of Sesac, an idol worshipped both at Borsippe and at Babylon.
