Out of the north - (Jer 4:6; Jer 6:1, Jer 6:22; Jer 10:22; Jer 25:9; Eze 26:7). The Chaldeans did not cast off the yoke of Assyria till several years after, under Nabopolassar, 625 b.c.; but long previously they had so increased as to threaten Assyria, which was now grown weak, and other neighboring peoples.