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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 51:30 - 51:30
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forborne to fight - for the city was not taken by force of arms, but by stratagem, according to the counsel given to Cyrus by two eunuchs of Belshazzar who deserted.
remained in ... holds - not daring to go forth to fight; many, with Nabonidus, withdrew to the fortified city Borsippa.