One post shall run to meet another. — The words exactly answer to the account of the capture of Babylon given in Herod. i. (see Note on Jeremiah 51:24). The history of Belshazzar’s feast (Daniel 5:1-30) must obviously have ended in a like result. No words could paint more vividly the panic of the surprised city.
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Jeremiah 51:31
31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,