Jeremiah 51:27

Set ye up, etc.] Cp. Jeremiah 51:12.

prepare For mg. sanctify(and so in Jeremiah 51:28) see on Jeremiah 6:4; Jeremiah 22:7.

Ararat the Assyrian Urartu, N.W. of Lake Van, and corresponding pretty closely to the Armenia of the present day. Cp. Genesis 8:4; 2 Kings 19:37.

Minni the Mannaiof the cuneiform inscriptions, not far from Lake Van.

Ashkenaz evidently near the two former, but not otherwise known; perhaps the Ashguzaof inscriptions. Cp. Genesis 10:3.

a marshal The Heb. word occurs elsewhere only in Nahum 3:17. It is commonly connected with the frequent Assyrian noun dupsarru, tablet-writer, scribe. But both passages seem to suggest (cp. "horses" in the parallel clause here) that a body of troops is indicated rather than any individual.