ISAIAH CHAPTER 46 The ruin of Babylon and her idols, Isaiah 46:1,2. God's love and faithfulness to the Jews, Isaiah 46:3,4. Idols not to be compared with God, Isaiah 46:5-8, for power, knowledge, and sure salvation, Isaiah 46:9-13. Bel; the chief idol of the Babylonians, Jeremiah 50:2, Jeremiah 51:44, called by profane historians Jupiter Belus. Boweth down; as the Babylonians used to bow down to him to worship him, so now he boweth down and submits himself to the victorious Persians. Nebo; another of the famous idols, which used to deliver oracles, as his name signifies. Their idols were upon the beasts; were taken and broken, and the materials of them, which were gold, and silver, and brass, as both Scripture and other authors witness, were carried upon beasts into Persia. Your carriages, O ye Persians; to whom he suddenly turneth his speech, as is usual; were heavy laden; they lie upon the backs of your cattle like dull, and unprofitable, and heavy burdens to the beasts, as they had been to men before.
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Isaiah 46:1
1 Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.