From the tower of Syene] RM 'from Migdol to Syene,' and so in Jeremiah 30:6. The places named represent the N. and S. extremities of the country. Migdol was a town in Lower Egypt. Syene is the modern Assouan, in Upper Egypt.

11, 12. Forty years] a round number, standing for a full generation, as in Ezekiel 4:6. The period represented Ezekiel's forecast of the duration of Babylonian supremacy: see Jeremiah 25:9; Jeremiah 25:19.

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