Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation,.... The Modes and Persians, whose country lay north of Babylon: Jeremiah 50:9;
and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth; the kings of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz, Jeremiah 51:27; and of the Armenians and other nations that Cyrus had subdued and brought with him in his army against Babylon, as Xenophon s relates. Ten kings shall be raised up against mystical Babylon, and hate her, and burn her with fire, Revelation 17:12.
s Cyropaedia, l. 5. c. 15.