Jeremiah 51:44 meaning and explanation
I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
Jeremiah 51:44, Berean Standard Bible
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The LORD speaks through Jeremiah in a long oracle against Babylon, the empire that had crushed Judah and burned the temple. Bel was the title of Marduk, Babylon's chief god, and the verse pictures him as a swollen idol forced to vomit up the nations and wealth he had swallowed.
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