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ISAIAH CHAPTER 46
The ruin of Babylon and her idols, Isa_46:1,2. God’s love and faithfulness to the Jews, Isa_46:3,4. Idols not to be compared with God, Isa_46:5-8, for power, knowledge, and sure salvation, Isa_46:9-13.
Bel; the chief idol of the Babylonians, Jer_50:2 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.