Jeremiah 49:39 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

In the latter days, I will bring again the captivity of Elam This is supposed to relate to the times of the Lagi and Seleucidæ, when the Elamites recovered their liberty. Or, if we consider what is said in the foregoing verse to relate to Nebuchadnezzar, this may be understood of Cyrus's setting them free from the Babylonish yoke; for we find from Isaiah 22:6, that the Elamites assisted Cyrus in the conquest of Babylon; and Shushan, the chief city of Elam, was made the metropolis of the Persian empire.

Jeremiah 49:39

39 But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.